The 25-year-old’s music career is on a meteoric rise that doesn’t appear to be slowing down anytime soon. “As long as they fight, I’m fighting right there with them.” “Queer people have been through this before and we have always come together and fought like hell and overcome and I think most queer people are on that wavelength,” she says. But she still works to provide a sense of joy through her music that people can turn to for comfort, inspiration and acceptance.Īs for those targeting LGBTQ people, Roan says she’ll keep fighting back alongside the rest of her community. Roan acknowledges that it can feel scary or isolating to live as an openly queer person, especially when LGBTQ rights are under attack across the country. “A lot of people don’t even know that they have local drag queens or that drag happens in their town or they’ve never seen a drag show.” This comes at a time when hundreds of anti-LGBTQ bills have been proposed or passed just this year in states - including Texas, Florida, North Dakota and Missouri - and drag shows consistently come under fire by anti-LGBTQ proponents.ĭespite it all, Roan wants to introduce her audiences, namely queer people, to their local queens in an attempt to build up local queer communities across the country. Roan has said she will do the same on her upcoming Midwest Princess tour. The room cannot hold the excitement and energy and joy.” “When I walk out on stage after three drag queens have opened for me, the feeling is electric in the room. I feel like I’m 8 years old seeing Princess Jasmine for the first time,” she says. “To me, there is literally nothing more exciting than watching a drag performance. In each city she played, she enlisted a few local drag queens to open the show before she went on stage. Like in the music video for “Pink Pony Club,” Roan featured drag performers on her tour.

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