While past years at RuPaul's DragCon NYC have also featured political panels and events, this year’s, coming just five months before the Iowa caucuses, felt particularly amped up.
Among the estimated 50,000 attendees at RuPaul’s DragCon NYC — an annual convention drawing drag devotees to its dramatic vast pink carpet, outlandish performances and sea of wig, makeup and glittery costume booths — was a familiar, if jarringly unexpected face: that of Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
Warren, in her video, urged everyone to make sure they had registered to vote, saying, “When we make our voices heard, when we get into the fight, we win.” She also called out the record number of trans Americans, particularly trans women of color, who were killed last year. “We need to fight back,” she said. “Equal means equal, period.”
“Me wearing eyelashes and a wig does not make me less intelligent or less aware of what the issues are,” Cummings told the crowd. “For me, drag is just an extension of who I am … And if drag gets the attention, I can then say, ‘Great, you’re listening? Here’s what the issues are.’” For three years now, DragCon has rolled out its pink carpet in both Los Angeles and New York City, bringing about 50,000 attendees to each city, every year, over the weekend-long affair; in January, it’ll make its debut in London. And while past years have also featured political panels and events, this year’s, coming just five months before the Iowa caucuses, felt particularly amped up.
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