A Drag Queen Gets Beyoncé's Attention: This Week's Winners & Losers

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There were some major moments this week.

Some that will be cherished forever, and others that will hopefully be scrubbed from our brains if we’ve had enough chills since Us. 

This week’s winner below, then hit the next page for the loser of the week!

Winner

Shangela

When it comes to staples in LGBTQ entertainment culture, drag queens are definitely a celebrated act.

So it was only right when Beyoncé and Jay-Z received the Vanguard Award at the GLAAD Media Awards, an epic drag act would pay tribute to the Queen Bey.

RuPaul’s Drag Race veteran Shangela was completely willing and able to set fire to the stage. Shangela (real name D.J. Pierce) lip-synced a medley of Beyoncé hits like “Partition” and “***Flawless,” complete with epic choreo and flow-tastic wigs blowing in the wind.

Influencer Raymond Braun captured some of the glow below.

https://twitter.com/raymondbraun/status/1111542029937328128

Once Shangela was done owning the stage, Beyoncé and Jay-Z gave her a standing ovation, and Bey even shouted out Shangela in her award speech saying, “I’m just super honored and overwhelmed. I’ve already cried. I put a run in my stocking from Shangela!”

https://twitter.com/raymondbraun/status/1111505507871657984

You can watch more of Jay and Bey’s speech below where Beyoncé promotes LGBTQI equality, and she even gives a touching tribute to her gay uncle who helped raise her and her sister.

Loser

WTOL11 (sort of)

*Sigh*

So apparently, some Ohio newscasters wanted to gain brownie points with kids during test week by doing a cutesy “encouragement” segment aimed at students.

Fun idea.

The only problem is, the news station loaded their dialogue with slang words that sounded like smooshed bird poo coming from adults.

It didn’t help that most of the newscasters were White and taking on slang that mostly stems from Black culture. Peep the tragic scene for yourself below…

Who, what, when, where, why AND how?

Like…

Did this man just say “yeet?”

The woman co-anchor’s distracting Wizard of Oz dress wasn’t helping matters either.

WTOL11 tried to explain their transgressions in an article, saying they were hoping to uplift a school district that continually gets failing grades and low test-taking turnout.

Apparently, their goals worked in some schools. One Toledo Public School teacher said she showed the clip to her middle school kids before testing, and they loved it. She said in a statement:

“They were all cracking up, and asked if we could watch it a second and third time before testing! If you’ve never seen a large group of kids laugh hysterically, you’re missing out on life!”

Well, at least it got the kids relaxed for testing right?

Some wins in the L.

But once test time is over, let’s stick to the news and weather shall we WTOL11.