Last year, United Talent Agency became one of the first agencies in Hollywood to win the Human Rights Campaign Equality 100 award as a leader in LGBTQ workplace inclusion. Not only is it a positive environment for its queer agents, but those agents also have the autonomy to choose who they want to represent. “We’ve built a great business representing LGBTQ+ talent in general, and specifically within that niche, drag representation,” said agent Pranav Mandavia.

Mandavia remembers when the company signed its first drag artist a few years ago. "There were no phone calls from the leader saying, 'Why did you sign this person? What's the business proposition?'" Instead, they accepted that the agents were passionate and that they were told, 'build a business.'

Since then, UTA has become a groundbreaking leader in representing drag artists, including Monét X Change, Violet Chachki, Bob the Drag Queen, Trixie Mattel, Katya Zamolodchikova and Gottmik. And the list continues to grow.

Mandavia was joined by his colleagues Jacob Fenton – Partner and Agent (TV Talent), Ugo Obioha, Agent (MP Lit), Michael Grinspan, Agent (Comedy Touring) and Lucinda Moorhead, Partner and Agent (TV Lit) to discuss matters surrounding pride, drag and LGBTQ+ representation within and beyond UTA.