Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced Friday she’ll seem on an episode of a preferred drag queen present.
Mrs. Pelosi, a California Democrat who represents San Francisco, will make “a particular Pleasure Month look” on episode 5 of “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 7,” aides mentioned Friday.
The present is described as “a bunch of proficient drag queens who compete in challenges to impress host RuPaul, the world’s most well-known drag queen, to win a money prize together with a crown and the title of America’s Subsequent Drag Famous person.”
The present runs on the Paramount Plus streaming service and every episode features a competitors involving efficiency or style design.
Within the all-star episodes, “solely winners return to compete for the crown,” based on Paramount.
Within the episode that includes Mrs. Pelosi, she walked on stage sporting a shiny yellow swimsuit and advised the contestants, “Your freedom of expression of yourselves in drag is what America is all about. With the midterm election developing, it’s crucial folks make their voices and their vote heard.”
It’s Mrs. Pelosi’s second journey to the present. She additionally appeared in 2018.
Her newest look got here amid rising outcry over a brand new development of staging drag queen performances for youngsters.
So-called family-friendly drag performances have popped up throughout the nation, together with in Dallas, Texas; Palm Seashore, Florida; and the Smithsonian American Artwork Museum in Washington to commemorate Pleasure Month.
The acts have drawn outrage from critics who say the performances seem sexual and shouldn’t be seen by youngsters.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis mentioned his state’s baby endangerment legal guidelines may very well be invoked if there are drag exhibits for youngsters, though he didn’t remark particularly on the Palm Seashore occasion.
Mr. DeSantis slammed the Dallas “Drag your children to delight” occasion, which passed off earlier this month at an grownup venue adorned with neon indicators laced with sexual innuendo. Video went viral of drag queens dancing with the youngsters and taking cash from them.
“That’s not one thing youngsters must be uncovered to,” Mr. DeSantis mentioned Thursday.
