Halal Bae | |
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 Halal Bae | |
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| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation | Drag queen |
| Television | Canada's Drag Race (season 3) |
Halal Bae is an Egyptian-born Canadian drag performer from Toronto, Ontario who competed on season 3 of Canada's Drag Race . [2]
Halal Bae | |
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| Halal Bae | |
| Born | |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation | Drag queen |
| Television | Canada's Drag Race (season 3) |
Halal Bae is an Egyptian-born Canadian drag performer from Toronto, Ontario who competed on season 3 of Canada's Drag Race . [2]
Halal Bae was born in Egypt and is of Egyptian-Palestinian ancestry. She was raised by a Muslim family in the Middle East, before immigrating to Canada at the age of 18. [3]
Halal Bae is a drag performer. She gained prominence in Toronto, and was named the city's best drag performer by NOW Magazine in 2020. She competed on the third season of Canada's Drag Race , becoming the first North African performer on the franchise. [4] Halal Bae was also the first contestant to have a mustache, which Screen Rant said "[expanded] the idea of what it means to be a drag performer and how drag queens must look to be considered valid". [5] Tobin Ng of Broadview said Halal Bae received praise on social media "for bringing Muslim and Middle Eastern representation to the show", [3] and Michel Cook of Instinct magazine wrote, "Not only did they help shatter stereotypes as to what a queer Muslim person truly is, Bae is the first North African person to hit the Drag Race competition." [6]
Halal Bae is queer and based in Toronto. [3] CBC News has described her as an "Arab Muslim activist queen". [7] Halal Bae likes to focus on social work, community building, [8] and has said: "For me, drag is used as a political tool, as a means of expressing my artistic practice, of community-building." [9]
According to The New Arab , she is "a staunch supporter of a free Palestine". [10]
Halal Bae uses the pronouns she/her in drag and he/they out of drag. [11]
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