Tyra Sanchez Is Banned from DragCon, Responds on Facebook

Attendees at DragCon, the annual Los Angeles-based celebration of all things drag, can usually expect to see many of the RuPaul’s Drag Race winners and contestants in attendance. However, that will not be the case for Season 2 winner Tyra Sanchez, who has been banned from the competition for a video she posted a few weeks ago threatening violence against Season 4 contestant Phi Phi O’Hara and fellow season 2 queen Tatianna.

Phi Phi O’Hara took the Instagram video and posted it on Twitter.

It ends now, THIS isn’t a person who should represent a brand like @RuPaulsDragRace

This isn’t how any decent human acts. This is someone unstable & needs help. @RuPaulsDragCon she shouldnt be allowed to attend

There should be no booth for anyone who threatens hate/ violence! pic.twitter.com/52N5Wd06FL

— Jaremi Carey (@PhiPhiOhara) March 25, 2018

In the video, Sanchez says, “But when you see Ms. Phi Phi and Ms. Mother Fucking Tati’s ass stretched out on the motherfucking ground, you will know it was me. Yeah, I may not have physically did it, but it will be my doing. Remember that shit, bitch.”

O’Hara tweeted DragCon in the tweet with the video.

Tyra Sanchez responded to her being banned from DragCon on her personal social media accounts on Monday.

In the post, she published an email to Sanchez from DragCon saying that they would let her participate in DragCon if she posted a video apologizing for what she said and denouncing violence in all forms. Sanchez responded that she already apologized and would not apologize again.

“Multiple times I have stated that violence is not the answer and that queens of my upbringing sometimes express ourselves different than most,” Sanchez wrote. “I understand you may not understand this as you have only appropriated our lives, our attitudes and our mannerisms.”

She continued, “You can continue to push your narrative that I’m some angry black queen, but you and I know that is simply untrue. If you want to remove me from DragCon because of some drag queen drama then by all means remove me.”

Season 10 queen The Vixen also spoke about the “angry black queen” narrative on this week’s Untucked, when she talked about the racialized narratives the show’s fandoms often create around its contestants.

Tatianna responded in length to Sanchez on Twitter Tuesday morning.

Let’s talk about the real T. Tyra works at the fucking Amazon packing warehouse. Not reading someone for having a job but reading someone for being a bitch. Pack my shit bitch. pic.twitter.com/pMG8vWspY5

— TATIANNA (@TATIANNANOW) April 10, 2018

Everyone wants to tiptoe around the bullshit but I refuse. She was nasty back in 2009 and she still nasty now that’s why she can’t get a fucking gig. She has been and will always be a fucking cunt. Anytime she crawls out of her hole it’s to get attention in the worst way.

— TATIANNA (@TATIANNANOW) April 10, 2018

Fuck it someone give her my number…again

— TATIANNA (@TATIANNANOW) April 10, 2018

Oh she was banned from dragcon? She didn’t have anyone coming there to see her anyways. She is the least respected or liked winner from any of the fucking seasons and that’s The fucking T

— TATIANNA (@TATIANNANOW) April 10, 2018

“She is the least respected or liked winner from any of the fucking seasons and that’s The fucking T,” Tatianna wrote.

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