RuPaul speaks out in first remarks on drag attacks and protests

Queen of Drag RuPaul spoke out Friday in his first remarks about the wave of attacks and protests at drag events across the nation.

“It’s such a tragedy how our country has become so divided, and it really breaks my heart,” RuPaul told Today Show hosts Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager. “I pray for our country, and the world really, and I still believe in the power of love.”

A report by GLAAD released in November documented a record of 124 incidents targeting drag events across 47 states in 2022. GLAAD’s data did not include the Club Q massacre in Colorado Springs.

In Tulsa, Oklahoma, in October, security video captured a person smashing the windows of a doughnut shop before lighting a Molotov cocktail and firebombing the storefront. The same month in Eugene, Oregon, protesters carried semiautomatic rifles and threw rocks and smoke bombs at a drag event.

In September, in Downers Grove, Illinois, near Chicago, a public library…

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