#BridgetEverett is surrounded by queer people in her everyday life. She’s got queer friends, queer family, queer fans — the latter of which she courted while performing her alt-cabaret (alt as in she’s been known to sing about buttholes to a ukulele-accompanied tune) at New York City gay bars.

Everett, who Amy Schumer featured in her sketch show “Inside Amy Schumer,” is straight but, at this point, you’d have a strong case for making her an honorary member of the LGBTQ+ community. And now, with her new HBO series #SomebodySomewhere, in which she acts and produces, her queer-filled real life extends to the heart of this moving, semi-autobiographical show. That’s because a major part of the show is about chosen family, and in the case of Sam (Everett), who doesn’t fit her small-town Kansas mold, it’s the town’s queers who make her feel at, well, home. Among them are Joel (openly gay actor Jeff Hiller) and Fred Rococo (Murray Hill, comedian and NYC drag king performer).

In a recent Zoom interview with Everett, the actress talked about how the queerness of “Somebody Somewhere” mirrors her own life in some ways, her longtime relationship with Murray, and why she feels queer people “rescued” her.