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The most recent contestant to win RuPaul’s Drag Race, Sasha Colby, stopped in Washington, D.C., for her first appearance since winning the competition show.
Colby performed at Pitchers, a popular gay bar in the Adams Morgan section of the capital city, to throngs of excited fans.
Among them was the first gay immigrant elected to Congress, California Rep. Robert Garcia.
Garcia, who has not been shy about his fandom for all things Drag Race, tells The Advocate that he was a Colby fan from day one.
Para Robert García la muerte de su madre y su padrastro, víctimas del COVID-19, fue una motivación para optar por un escaño en el Capitolio. Este político de origen peruano quiere ser un ejemplo para otros jóvenes de la comunidad LGTBQ y para los latinos.
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Pod Save America's Dan Pfeiffer explains what Dems can do to replicate their stunning win in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race. Rep. Robert Garcia talks about wading through the rough waters of today's Congress. Plus, Dr. Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated 5 discusses his run for City Council in NY and his message to Donald Trump after his indictment.
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Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) joins Michael Steele on 'All In With Chris Hayes' after accompanying House Republicans on a trip to a D.C. jail housing Jan. 6 defendants.
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“I always tell people that I am gay, I’m a politician, I’m an educator, but the thing that defines me the most is my immigration experience,” says Congressman Robert Garcia. “That makes me more ‘me’ than anything else.”
Robert Garcia, a 45-year-old former Long Beach, California, mayor and newly elected Democratic U.S. representative, is hardly the first openly gay member of Congress, but there’s something unique and irreverent in how he has approached his first few months on the job. He’s publicly celebrated drag culture, casually criticized Republican colleagues on Twitter, and paid tribute to Beyoncé on the House floor.
Beyoncé Knowles-Carter is getting the recognition she deserves as a role model on so many levels.
California Rep. Robert Garcia, a newly elected member of Congress, commemorated the global superstar, 41, in a speech Wednesday on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives:
A U.S. congressman commemorated the start of Women’s History Month on Wednesday (March 1) by paying tribute to Beyoncé on the floor of the House of Representatives.
A newly-elected Congressman went viral for a full-blown presentation he gave on the House floor, praising Beyoncé -- and we got to the bottom of what was behind it all.
Our photog ran into Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) on Capitol Hill Wednesday ... this after his impassioned speech just hours earlier, where he talked about the end of Black History Month and the start of Women's History Month ... using Queen Bey as the bridge between the two.
Kicking off Women's History Month with a bang, Rep. Robert Garcia took the time to honor Beyoncé on the floor of the House of Representatives