DP: Why did you initially begin the Facebook group for husbands and boyfriends of drag queens?

CH: I don’t mean to sound negative, but mainly for our own frustrations. I work with Latrice. We aren’t just married; I also serve as her executive personal assistant. Sometimes, my role is to be the bad cop, and there can be situations that I find myself in where it is inappropriate for me to post about them publicly on social media, but I want to be able to vent and tell somebody what I am going through. Latrice was in Season Four (RuPaul’s Drag Race), so I have been in this a minute. At that time, Sharon Needles was touring a lot, Alaska, Bianca Del Rio, Thorgy, so along with their assistants, boyfriends, and husbands, we kind of started this group as a joke just to be able to complain about our respective partners, but it really did provide a little bit of a support group where we could tell someone about a shady promoter or ask for help if we were in a city where somebody’s luggage didn’t show up. We needed to know who we could call to get some tights and lashes quickly, or whatever. It became a way of communicating with each other, so that was kind of the inspiration. It is sort of a joke, but it is a brotherhood as well.

DP: Some guests on the show include Mic J Rez (Mr. Manila Luzon) and Ceejay Russell (Mr. Ginger Minj). Who else can we expect to see?

CH: Yes, I have Mr. Minj and Mr. Luzon. Episode Two, I believe, are the senior most couples in Drag Race herstory, Mr. Chad Michaels and Mr. Kasha Davis. They have both been together somewhere between 13-17 years, something like that, and I loved getting to talk with them. Adam Magee makes all of Chad’s costumes, all those Cher replicas and Bob Mackie stuff. So, we get to go into his talents. Mr. Kasha Davis is a singer and has his own career, like an office job, so we get to learn more about that. Episode Three is Gilbert and Gus. Gilbert is Mr. Shuga Cain, and Gus Lanza is BenDeLaCreme’s partner who happens to be a trans man, and we actually get to sort of investigate and hear from him a little bit about his experience of being a trans person within the Drag Race franchise. We also get to meet their adorable pets; everybody has cute pets. Episode Four includes Ej Dohring, who is Mr. Jan Sport. Having him on the show was my first time meeting him. This is how I am meeting the husbands now because we are not on a tour or backstage. So, those are my first eight guests. Hopefully, we can expand on those stories and include some more guys in the future.

DP: What do you hope audiences take away from All the Queens’ Men?

CH: I am so grateful for WOW and RuPaul’s Drag Race because they have told our stories in a way that I don’t think anybody else has. However, the more popular Drag Race becomes, I see a lot of young gay guys not necessarily knowing what to do other than drag in order to fit in with the community, especially in show business. I want people to take away that there are lots of different kinds of gay/queer folks that are a part of this. I want them to see that as glitzy and glamorous as our lives are and seem at times, we must work very hard to make that happen. None of these queens are a one-woman or one-person show. All the most successful drag queens in the world have somebody behind them pushing and helping with their careers. It is sometimes a lover, sometimes it is not, but I hope that people can see a different type of role model, different ways that relationships work, and how you can be in show business without having to wear a wig.

DP: You were a fan of Drag Race before meeting Latrice. How exciting is it for you to now be a part of that inner circle?

CH: It is a huge honor. Like I said, Latrice was in Season Four, so this was almost 10 years ago; we are now going into Season 13. I feel like Season Four really made the show go to a new level. We really escalated, and I felt that whoever you were, there was somebody you could identify with in that season. I was sitting at home thinking, “I believe I can hang with these girls,” but you don’t really know. Anybody likes to think they were hanging out with someone they see on TV and that person on TV would like them back. Meeting Latrice was a surprise. I knew I wanted her attention, but I did not count on getting married to her. That never occurred to me. I have gained some very trusted friends out of this experience. I would not be who I am without Kennedy Davenport, Willam, or Bianca Del Rio. They help keep me sane almost on a daily basis. It is a huge honor to now be a part of the story.