Drag performers launch PAC to fight 'anti-drag' bills: 'Our community is being assaulted'

Multiple former contestants of 'RuPaul’s Drag Race' are members of the PAC, the nation's first led by drag performers.

Multiple former contestants of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” have launched the Drag PAC , a political action committee aimed at protecting LGBTQIA+ rights.“I think everyone is a little disheartened with a lot of our elected leadership, and frankly, our community is being assaulted, and it’s escalating to violence,” Jinkx Monsoon, whose legal name is Hera Hoffer, said.

We’re in the middle of something historic,” Monet X Change, whose legal name is Kevin Bertin, said. “This is the most important election cycle for queer people’s rights and freedoms in our lifetime.”

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