{"id":285108,"date":"2026-05-26T19:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285108\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T19:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:37:11","slug":"lexi-long-opens-up-about-winning-orlando-drag-race-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285108\/","title":{"rendered":"Lexi Long opens up about winning Orlando Drag Race Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1536\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Web-Logo.png\" class=\"attachment-260235 size-260235 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/events\/the-big-gay-radio-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Big Gay Radio Show<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/florida_turtle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Chris Gorman<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/esmerussell61\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Esm\u00e9 Russell<\/a> were joined by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thelexilong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Lexi Long<\/a>, winner of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/orlandodragracelive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Orlando Drag Race Live Season 10<\/a>. Lexi talked about their journey in drag and their experience winning the Orlando competition. The group discussed performing, entertainment, and life in Florida\u2019s drag scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The show also covered several headlines from across Florida and beyond. Topics included updates involving the Hillsborough County teacher accused of hanging a black baby doll and a Manatee County teacher accused of making students slap a classmate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, the team discussed Florida Democratic candidates being arrested at the Governor\u2019s Office and a \u201cwhites-only\u201d Arkansas community being sued. Other stories included a proposed Pinellas County data center and Republicans dropping a one billion dollar White House security proposal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-on-the-big-gay-after-show\">The conversation continued on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/20tGIYNexwKJawK0jPDI6L?si=54a30fb681084519\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Big Gay After Show<\/a>, where Chris and Esm\u00e9 spoke more with Lexi Long about working at Disney and performing professionally. The trio also discussed a former conversion therapy promoter arrested after allegedly soliciting a minor. Further, the show talked about an FWC biologist receiving a settlement after being terminated over anti-Charlie Kirk posts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other stories included a man arrested after reporting zombies, ghosts, and UFOs to 911. Additional headlines included Amazon shipping an urn that may have contained ashes and Southwest banning \u201chuman-like\u201d robots from flights. The team also discussed Nintendo denying a man \u201cPok\u00e9mon Professor\u201d status and the Osbourne family releasing an AI avatar of Ozzy Osbourne.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Check out the most recent episode of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/events\/the-big-gay-radio-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Big Gay Radio Show\u00a0<\/a>here!<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Check out The Big Gay After Show available at 5PM, May 26th, on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/20tGIYNexwKJawK0jPDI6L?si=5d3d172695b742c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Spotify<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-big-gay-radio-show\/id1672159950\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_8186-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-260237\"  \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week on\u00a0The Big Gay Radio Show, Chris Gorman and Esm\u00e9 Russell were joined by Lexi Long, winner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[120993,3699,139,141,140,3700],"class_list":["post-285108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-drag-shows","tag-lgbtqia","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-the-big-gay-radio-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}