Halal Bae

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Halal Bae
Born
Sherif Taalab [1]

Kuwait [1]
NationalityCanadian
Occupation Drag queen
Television Canada's Drag Race (season 3)

Halal Bae is the stage name of Sherif Talaab, a Canadian drag performer who competed on season 3 of Canada's Drag Race .

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Early life

Halal Bae is of Egyptian-Palestinian ancestry, and was raised by a Muslim family in the Middle East. [2]

Career

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 season 3 of Canada's Drag Race , and was the first contestant eliminated from the competition. [3] 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". [4] Tobin Ng of Broadview said Halal Bae received praise on social media "for bringing Muslim and Middle Eastern representation to the show". [2] 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." [5]

Outside of drag, Halal Bae has worked as a project manager. [6]

Personal life

Halal Bae is queer and based in Toronto. [2] CBC has described her as an "Arab Muslim activist queen". [7] According to The New Arab , she is "a staunch supporter of a free Palestine". [8] Halal Bae uses the pronouns she/her in drag and he/him/they out of drag. [9]

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