RuPaul’s Drag Race royalty. The effervescent quality certainly can be fun and entertaining. Just try, for example, to get through the viral clip of Peppermint and Bob the Drag Queen cracking each other up on the Drag Race recap show The Pit Stop without laughing along in delight.But Peppermint has also been highly visible sharing her wisdom in a more serious light, as an activist for trans awareness and racial justice.
In the wake of weeks of protest sparked by the killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor, she and Bob the Drag Queen were handed the reins to NYC Pride’s centerstage event to host a Black Queer Town Hall.“We were really fed up with the videos that we were seeing, the tragic stories,” says Peppermint.