Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez got on stage at a drag show and the crowd went wild
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US representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gets noticed partying in the audience at a New York City drag show in McKittrick Hotel last Friday (July 5).
The Bartschland Follies is a drag and burlesque show produced by Susanne Bartsch. Performer, Joey Arias, pulled the politician on stage and asked her to say a few words.
And the crowd went wild.
Be who you are. You are beautiful. You are accepted.
Ocasio-Cortez left the stage to a huge round of applause and the audience chanting her name. Drag and cabaret performer Joey Arias posted on Instagram:
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“Alexandria O.Cortez and myself at BARTSCHLAND FOLLIES! I was gagging ! She’s Amaxing ! The place went wild ! Chanting her name!” they wrote.
Drag King Murray Hill called Cortez’s speech a ‘mic drop,’ posting images from the night on his Instagram.
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After being asked about how it was like meeting Alexandria, Murray Hill told NBC News: “She reignited the fire that’s burning in all of us.
“She stayed and watched the entire show starring New York’s finest misfits, nightlife creatures, rabble-rousers, queer icons.”
Working with the LGBT community
Ocasio-Cortez has been an LGBT+ supporter since she started being a congresswoman.
In June, Alexandria endorsed a campaign run by Queer Latina woman Tiffany Cabán in Queens. The campaign helped fight for sex worker rights and making this line of work legal.
Ocasio-Cortez’s endorsement helped push the campaign to centre stage and give a better chance of making sex work legal.
Tiffany Caban Campaigns On Election Day (Photo by Scott Heins/Getty Images)
