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Hamm Samwich is the self-proclaimed "hottest piece of meat in Queens" and a true master of drag. Watch Hamm fight to take her place among the drag elite.

Part of a six part series that intimately explores characters who are part of the Brooklyn New York drag scene.
Transcript
00:06I don't know my upbringing was good I had like good upbringing I think maybe the I think maybe
00:17the influence of my upbringing was to put me in a position where I could give a shit about
00:24something other than my fucking upbringing you know like parents dig it parents like ham no no
00:33gay problems with the parents they seem to get it they seem to support what I'm doing so I'm free
00:41to stress out about other fucking things that is the definition of privilege I think I know there's
00:48a lot of talk about privilege but it's a it's a it's a really extreme privilege to just not have
00:52to give a shit about family struggles the way that ham sandwich like as a persona has progressed
01:03is to just become more and more like my normal self and in the initial stages there was a lot
01:09of pressure to like be something and you can see that when people are starting out too they want
01:14to just be something once that solidifies and once ham sandwich or whoever the fuck you are your drag
01:20identity solidifies then you just are it so you don't have to put any energy in and so I've
01:25actually taken energy out and you find that being dressed up carries a lot of the energy you have
01:33big hair if you have big eyes if you're wearing a kind of ostentatious outfit you just sit back and
01:39fucking people pay attention there's no need to like do all this stuff so so for me the character is
01:46now just me but it's me with hair you know which changes everything this is not going to save the
01:55world this talent but it might entertain a few people it's generally kind of good-natured and
02:03and not everybody can do it not everybody can do drag every gay person at this point thinks drag hey
02:12I
02:12could do that they all all gay people kind of feel not not necessarily entitled but just kind of
02:22that the idea has become so commonplace now that it's like hey fuck it I'll become a drag queen why
02:26not if everything else falls through all of my other lazy friends seem to be doing it so I don't
02:31see why
02:31I can't either some people they just look like a dude in a dress like a fucking monkey in a
02:35dress
02:37uh they'll never be drag queens or they'll never be good drag queens not that you now listen I don't
02:43want to say that a monkey in a dress can be a pretty good drag queen
03:00as a person I stand for freedom of expression the right to offend the right for controversial ideas
03:07to meet in dialogue and for each side to refine their position and to do it all with a kind
03:13of
03:13sense of levity and a little bit of irony and a little bit of contempt and I stand hopefully
03:21generally for a fucking always being able to undercut yourself right at the moment when you're
03:27taking yourself too seriously I do not always succeed in doing that but in the moments when
03:32I do not succeed at least I'll have a wig on my head and a goofy expression on my face
03:38sorry to the
03:41fucking face
03:42oh
03:42oh
03:43oh

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