These attending the White Home ceremony for Tuesday’s signing of laws codifying same-sex marriage into federal regulation included two outstanding drag queens.

Marti G. Cummings, a New York Metropolis drag queen and political activist, and Brita Filter, who was featured on season 12 of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” had been amongst these within the viewers for President Biden’s signing of the Respect for Marriage Act on the South Garden.

Each performers shared images afterward on social media that confirmed Brita Filter decked out in drag and Marti G. Cummings, who identifies as a “nonbinary drag artist,” carrying males’s garments on the ceremony.

“Proud to be a drag artist in politics w my sister @thebritafilter representing at @whitehouse for the signing of the Respect for Marriage Act,” mentioned Marti G. Cummings on Instagram.

The invites from the White Home drew pushback on the suitable from those that identified that the 2 have carried out for youngsters.

“Biden invited a drag queen to the White Home at the moment for the signing of the Respect for Marriage Act. This drag queen performs and places on exhibits for teenagers. The Biden admin encourages this,” tweeted Libs of TikTok.

Marti G. Cummings posted a photograph Dec. 4 on Instagram wearing ladies’s garments and full make-up surrounded by youngsters with the caption, “I like doing Drag Story Hour.”

“Regardless of what conservatives say, this household pal[ly] occasion is a method to unfold pleasure, train acceptance & love,” mentioned the put up. “A method to deliver folks collectively. Children simply wish to hear their favourite tales … hold spreading hate as a result of I’m gonna hold spreading pleasure.”

Brita Filter, the stage title of Jesse Havea, drew headlines earlier this yr for a efficiency throughout a chapel service on the Grace Church College in Manhattan.

“I’m honored to be at The White Home in full drag representing my group and witnessing this historic second,” mentioned Brita Filter in a Tuesday put up on Instagram.

The newly signed regulation repeals the 1996 Protection of Marriage Act and requires states to acknowledge same-sex marriages carried out in different states.

The Supreme Court docket made marrying an individual of 1’s personal intercourse a constitutional proper in its 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges determination.

However supporters had been alarmed by Justice Clarence Thomas saying the courtroom ought to rethink the ruling in a concurring opinion earlier this yr in Dobbs v. Jackson Girls’s Well being Group, the choice that overturned the federal proper to abortion.