Blayne Alexander

Lexi was, I mean, Lexi was just an icon, right?

But yes, he performed in drag shows.

We actually went to one of the shows where he would have performed in the course of shooting this, which was a fun and amazing experience.

You have all these, like, young college students, and then we walked in with our cameras and were decidedly older than college.

And so, I mean, they were kind.

He blended right in.

I'm jealous.

It was just funny.

It was hilarious to be in the midst of it.

But it was cool to just see his world and see his community and everybody being there.

It was really special.

His friend Jose actually told me, Jose, who we met in the story, told me that it was Jay Lee who inspired him to go perform in drag shows, inspired him to be open, you know, kind of about who he was.

So he really was a beacon for a lot of people right there in Oxford.

Right?

You know, it's interesting.

And I thought about this, too.

When I spoke with Jose and Braylon, they talked about the fact that before Jay Lee went missing, there were two murders of –

transgender people there in the state of Mississippi.

And so they were thinking, okay, like what is happening?

Like could this be an attack on the community?