“The energy was honestly like nothing I’ve ever experienced,” recalls the drag performer Britney Banks of her recent surprise appearance at a Lizzo concert at Knoxville, Tennessee’s Thompson-Boling arena. “The roof could have come off.”
Banks is referring to the moment she and a group of fellow performers were invited onstage by Lizzo for a performance of the star’s 2022 song Everybody’s Gay in direct defiance of the restrictive anti-LGBTQ+ laws and sentiment bubbling up in the state.
