{"id":305183,"date":"2026-07-24T23:09:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T23:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/305183\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T23:09:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T23:09:28","slug":"drag-race-stars-threaten-to-sue-anti-drag-nancy-mace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/305183\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Drag Race\u2019 stars threaten to \u2018sue\u2019 anti-drag Nancy Mace"},"content":{"rendered":"

This story originally appeared on Out<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Republican Rep. Nancy Mace<\/a> launched a new attack on drag queens this week, but the Drag Race<\/a> divas are hitting back.<\/p>\n

The South Carolina conservative drew attention during a congressional hearing when she displayed photographs of Drag Race host RuPaul<\/a> and stars Kandy Muse<\/a> and Joey Jay<\/a> as she argued that drag \u201csexualizes\u201d children.<\/p>\n

In a subcommittee hearing Tuesday, examining the Trump administration\u2019s assertion that the Smithsonian is insufficiently patriotic, Republican Rep. Tim Burchett said the institution had “become infected by a woke ideology.” Mace criticized the National Museum of American History for displaying a photo of drag legend and Emmy-winner RuPaul.<\/p>\n

\u201cRuPaul is a man that dresses like a woman, literally,” Mace said, before launching into an attack on drag queens which relied on the tried and true GOP rhetoric that equates LGBTQ+ people and drag queens with child predators.<\/p>\n

“Do you know how many kids get raped by adults in this country?” she asked during the hearing. Mace went on to argue that displaying photos of drag queens for children puts them at risk. “Putting this kind of crap in front of kids sexualizes them,” she said. “Makes them vulnerable to people who wanna abuse them.”<\/p>\n

The queens didn\u2019t take the insult from the loudest and proudest anti-trans Republican lying down. RuPaul has yet to comment, but both Kandy Muse and Joey Jay clapped back on X (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n

Kandy Muse wrote, \u201ccan I sue?\u201d along with a reposted image of Mace holding up their photos at the House hearing. Joey Jay took things a step further when she commented, \u201cI\u2019m talking with my lawyer I\u2019ll let you know what he says.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other Drag Race stars also weighed in after the Here\u2019s Why Kevin Instagram account posted a clip from the hearing.<\/p>\n

Willam<\/a> wrote in the comments under the video, \u201cthe continental congress wore wigs and heeled shoes. they\u2019re in the museum and didn\u2019t want to rape kids did they? well other than thomas jefferson but besides the point.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cynthia Lee Fontaine<\/a> also wrote a comment, reminding Mace that she might want to pay closer attention to the child sexual abuse happening in churches instead of what drag queens are doing.<\/p>\n

“@repnancymace instead of focus on artist who do female illusionist that do more for the society in general and contribute culturally to the history of our country, why don\u2019t invest your time in education and also getting churches investigated for sexual abuse and conversion therapies damaging children by the pastors. This last groups I mentioned are really a HARM to children. Get your facts right sweetie,” she wrote.<\/p>\n

Mace, who has built her career in Congress around attacking the trans community, held up the photos of drag queens and a leather harness as part of the Republican led committee\u2019s attack on a temporary Smithsonian exhibit that closed in 2021 called \u201cIllegal to Be You: Gay History Beyond Stonewall,\u201d which explored the criminalization of queer people and the fight for equality.<\/p>\n

Smithsonian Director Anthea Hartig defended the exhibit, explaining that everyone under 18 had to be accompanied by an adult and that \u201cno one complained\u201d during the exhibit\u2019s run at the museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This story originally appeared on Out. Republican Rep. Nancy Mace launched a new attack on drag queens this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[115619,10584,4942,102278,115617,25496,9,24,63,122,124,123,28795,101090,4510,115618],"class_list":["post-305183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-cynthia-lee-fontaine","tag-drag-queens","tag-drag-race","tag-joey-jay","tag-kandy-muse","tag-nancy-mace","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-rupaul-charles","tag-rupaul-s-drag-race","tag-us-politics","tag-willam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}