Drag queen whose image was used in a Trump ad is reviewing 'legal options'
Source: NBC News
Oct. 4, 2024, 12:49 PM EDT
A drag queen who was included in a Trump campaign ad has suggested he may take legal action since he did not give the campaign permission to use the video of him.
The advertisement, released last week, highlighted Vice President Kamala Harris’ support for transgender people and features her saying in the 2020 campaign that she would support giving trans inmates access to gender affirming care. The ad also showed Harris posing for pictures with drag queen Pattie Gonia at a 2022 Pride month event.
“Kamala is for they, them,” a narrator says, referring to gender neutral pronouns commonly used by nonbinary people. “President Trump is for you.”
On Thursday, Pattie Gonia — whose real name is Wyn Wiley — posted a video on his social media accounts denouncing the ad. “Is this seriously the best they’ve got?” Wiley said while dressed as the Statue of Liberty. “No, the Trump campaign did not have my permission to use my name or likeness. Yes, we are reviewing our legal options, and yes, I’m going to do what queer people always do, turn our pain into something positive.”
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I get infuriated when drag is mispresented as transgender. Drag is performance, transgender is existence. Some drag performers are transgender, but transgender people are not in drag, unless they happpen to also be drag performers.
Furthermore, not all drag performers are lgbtq+
I'm tired of queer people being a scapegoat for putrid shits like 🟠💩 and his cult.
I think because they are afraid and try to tune it all out, they can't see the difference - even when their OWN have dressed in drag. It's a costume, a persona, a performance. They are a bunch of lying hypocrites.
