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Kamala Harris to appear on “Drag Race All Stars” season finale

"You betta vote!"
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Kamala Harris, a mixed-race woman with shoulder-length brown hair, smiles and wears a pink blazer while seated in the red-colored workroom for RuPaul's Drag Race. The chyron below her reads: Kamala Harris Vice President of the United States
Vice President Kamala Harris on the set of "RuPaul's Drag Race" Photo: X video screengrab

Vice President Kamala Harris, a longtime LGBTQ+ ally, will appear Friday on the season finale of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 9 to encourage viewers to vote.

“Each day we are seeing our rights and freedoms under attack, including the right of everyone to be who they are, love who they love, openly and with pride,” Harris says in her appearance. “So, as we fight back against these attacks, let’s all remember, no one is alone. We are all in this together, and your vote is your power. So please make sure your voice is heard this November and register to vote at vote.gov.”

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Harris will deliver her message surrounded by longtime Drag Race judge Michelle Visage, choreographer Jamal Sims, gay singer Lance Bass, comedienne Leslie Jones, and gay actor Cheyenne Jackson. Bass, Jones, and Jackson have all served as guest judges in past seasons of Drag Race.

Her appearance was filmed last month, according to the Deadline, before President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Harris for his replacement.

The eight drag queens competing in All Stars 9 kicked off their show’s season in May by visiting Washington D.C. and visiting a local gay bar with lesbian White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. There, the group discussed the role drag activism plays in a political climate that opposes gender nonconformity. Some of the queens called drag an empowering form of visibility that can help combat close-mindedness.

The queens — dressed in red, white, and blue — posed for promotional photographs at the National Mall in front of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool with the Washington Memorial obelisk in the background.

Earlier this year, former contestants of RuPaul’s Drag Race started Drag PAC, a first-ever drag queen-led political action committee that seeks to “protect LGBTQ+ rights through democratic action in 2024.”

The founding members are Alaska, Jinkx Monsoon, BenDeLaCreme, Peppermint, and Monét X Change. The performers said they were compelled to form the PAC because of the many anti-LGBTQ+ bills that have been introduced in the past years, including legislation aimed at restricting drag shows.

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