The drag queen performer known as “Shangela” faces sexual assault and misconduct accusations from four men who say they either sexually assaulted her or were too drunk to consent to sex dating back to 2012. One news organization reported that.Report from rolling stone.
Shangela (real name Darius Jeremy Pierce) rupaul’s drag race She is also an activist who promotes drag queen story hour events for children.
EXCLUSIVE: Four people have accused actor and drag star Shangela of sexually assaulting or attempting to have sex with them while they were too drunk to consent.
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Former Daily Beast called He is “the fearless drag queen America needs right now.”
Shangela denied the charges and said she never had non-consensual sex with her accusers.
rolling stone The accusers pointed out that they were initially hesitant to come forward because of the growing public sentiment against drag queens who persistently seek contact with children.
The oldest accusations against Shangela date back to 2012. Roylee Soliz claimed to have met Pierce at a handshake event in Texas when he was 20 years old.
Soliz said. rolling stone He recalled drinking with Pierce afterward and returning to his hotel room.
“I just remember closing my mouth trying to sleep when she (Shangela) tried to put her penis in my mouth,” Soliz claimed. “I really didn’t have the power to tell her to stop or to say that I didn’t want to have sex with her. … She was making me so intoxicated that I couldn’t say no. And I never… ‘I wasn’t mentally okay’ enough to feel strongly or demand that she stop what she was doing. ”
Another accuser, identified only as Zachary, claims that during a drunken night in 2015, Pierce tried to penetrate him anally.
Zachary, who was 23 at the time, claimed that after meeting at a handshake event in New Orleans, the two went out, “blacked out” and woke up to find Pierce and a third man there.
“When I heard Shangela say, ‘Run him,’ I immediately said, ‘No,'” Zachary told Rolling Stone. “I’m sure that [the third unidentified man] I’m not feeling positive because I passed out again even though I didn’t do anything. ”
Some claim they were sexually assaulted after they lost consciousness.
One of the accusers has already made his claims known.
As Breitbart News reported, Daniel McGarrigle filed a lawsuit against Pierce last year, alleging that the drag queen tried to break into him after a party.
Shangela has been active in promoting drag queen story hour events for children.His activities were featured on the HBO reality series I was here, This is followed by drag race Graduates travel to small towns in America.
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