Halal Bae

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Halal Bae
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Halal Bae
Born
Alexandria, Egypt [1]
NationalityCanadian
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]

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Early life

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]

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 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]

Personal life

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]

References

  1. ↑ "Halal Bae: Queen of Outsiders". mojotoronto.ca. Mojo Toronto. Retrieved October 14, 2023.
  2. ↑ "Canada's Drag Race season 3 cast sash-ehs this way: Meet the queens!". Yahoo Entertainment. 2022-06-15. Retrieved 2024-07-30.
  3. 1 2 3 Ng, Tobin (2022-08-30). "Halal Bae wants to shift perceptions of what drag can be". Broadview Magazine. Archived from the original on 2023-02-10. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
  4. ↑ "Halal Bae & Miss Moco On Their 'Canada's Drag Race' Journeys". Instinct Magazine. 2022-07-29. Retrieved 2024-07-30.
  5. ↑ Szelinski, Cailyn (2022-06-29). "Canada's Drag Race: Where To Find The Season 3 Queens on Social Media". ScreenRant. Archived from the original on 2022-07-17. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
  6. ↑ "Halal Bae & Miss Moco On Their 'Canada's Drag Race' Journeys". Instinct Magazine. 2022-07-29. Archived from the original on 2023-03-24. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
  7. ↑ "RuPaul took drag mainstream. Now this Toronto drag queen says it's time to diversify the look". CBC. Archived from the original on 2023-03-22. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
  8. ↑ "Halal Bae: Queen of Outsiders". 2024-07-30. Retrieved 2024-07-30.
  9. ↑ Ng, Tobin (2022-08-30). "Halal Bae wants to shift perceptions of what drag can be". Broadview Magazine. Retrieved 2024-07-30.
  10. ↑ "Halal Bae 'shockingly' eliminated from Canada's Drag Race". The New Arab . 2022-07-15. Archived from the original on 2023-10-16. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
  11. ↑ "Canada's Drag Race season 3 cast sash-ehs this way: Meet the queens!". Yahoo News. 2022-06-15. Archived from the original on 2022-06-28. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
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