{"id":2432795,"date":"2026-05-26T14:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2432795"},"modified":"2026-05-26T14:31:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:31:00","slug":"peppermint-made-her-mark-on-drag-race-now-her-advocacy-is-front-and-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/peppermint-made-her-mark-on-drag-race-now-her-advocacy-is-front-and-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Peppermint made her mark on \u2018Drag Race.\u2019 Now, her advocacy is front and center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p><em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unclosetedmedia.com\/p\/peppermint-made-her-mark-on-drag?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=2837882&amp;post_id=199243196&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=3u7oa&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email\">Uncloseted Media originally published this article on May 26.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>By SPENCER MACNAUGHTON, BELLA SAYEGH, and LAURY PEYSSONNERIE<\/strong> | You may know Peppermint as a runner-up on season 9 of \u201cRuPaul\u2019s Drag Race.\u201d Or for her stint as the first trans competitor on the runaway hit \u201cThe Traitors.\u201d Or for her relentless activism at a time when the Trump administration is waging\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unclosetedmedia.com\/p\/a-full-year-of-trump-and-lgbtq-rights\">an unprecedented attack<\/a>\u00a0on the LGBTQ community.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Peppermint is getting set to be one of New York City Pride\u2019s official grand marshals. And she\u2019s doing that while upholding the legacy of the trans women of color who were at the Stonewall Uprising in 1969.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of \u201cUNCLOSETED, with Spencer Macnaughton,\u201d Spencer sits down with Peppermint to hear about what it means to be a Black trans woman at the forefront of the LGBTQ movement during the second Trump administration.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Peppermint Made Her Mark on Drag Race. Now, Her Advocacy Is Front and Center.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l4RAPGXF1CU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>(Uncloseted Media video)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>SPENCER MACNAUGHTON:<\/strong> Hi everyone, welcome back to UNCLOSETED with me, Spencer Macnaughton. Today, I have the great pleasure of speaking with Miss Peppermint. She was a runner-up on \u201cRuPaul\u2019s Drag Race,\u201d she was the first trans contestant on the runaway hit, \u201cThe Traitors,\u201d and now she is the grand marshal for this year\u2019s New York City Pride. Peppermint, thanks so much for speaking with me and Uncloseted Media today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PEPPERMINT:<\/strong> Hello, I\u2019m so happy to finally be with you. This is great! Hello, Uncloseted!<\/p>\n<p><strong>SM:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, we\u2019ve done many collabs and you\u2019ve definitely amplified our work, and you\u2019re just such a huge advocate in the community so we\u2019re thrilled to connect with you formally in this way. So, you were recently named the grand marshal for New York City Pride. How did that come about and what does that exactly mean? What is your duty if you\u2019re grand marshal?<\/p>\n<p><strong>P:<\/strong>\u00a0You know, I\u2019m still trying to figure it out, but don\u2019t tell them. Obviously, most parades and marches, and probably all of them traditionally, have a grand marshal who\u2019s somebody that they honor who\u2019s like one of the people at the very front of the parade as it goes through. And so I\u2019ll be joined by some other fabulous grand marshals as well. I\u2019m sharing the spotlight with Dominique Jackson, with Bernie Wagenblast, who New Yorkers will know as one of the voices of the subway system, and also Bowen Yang. And Gays Against Guns was just announced, and I\u2019m so excited to share the spotlight with them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SM:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, and you wrote, or you mentioned in a recent interview that you said, \u201cBeing named a grand marshal for New York City Pride is deeply meaningful, not just as an artist, but as a Black trans woman standing in the legacy of those who fought for us to be here.\u201d That\u2019s Marsha P. Johnson, that\u2019s Sylvia Rivera. And through history, those voices, the voices of trans women of color have, for many parts since 1969, been erased from that conversation, right? So how meaningful is that to you as a Black trans woman to be in this space now in 2026, especially given the political climate we\u2019re experiencing?<\/p>\n<p><strong>P:<\/strong>\u00a0I am continuously dedicated to using whatever platform I have, whether it\u2019s before I was on TV, since I\u2019ve been on TV, still using my platform to advocate for the LGBT community, including, obviously, trans folks. As someone who is trans, it does feel good to know that they are, \u201cthey\u201d meaning the New York City Pride, they hold some reverence for the legacy of trans women of color, of trans people in general and their contribution and to the legacy of Pride. The march is a sort of recreation of the very first time that the community marched to commemorate what happened in 1969 at the Stonewall Uprising, where, you know, the police came to raid the bar, Stonewall, the legendary gay bar Stonewall in the Village, and the community fighting back.<\/p>\n<p>But, I think what a lot of people didn\u2019t realize is that, yes, trans people, trans women were there on the forefront, but it wasn\u2019t just an attack on the bar. This was an attack on sex workers, people who were homeless and on the street, many of which were femme presenting people, drag queens, trans women. These were the street kids who were working, who were sometimes cast out of their apartment, or kicked out of their homes from their families, and the only places that they could gather were, besides the bar, were also down at the pier and on the street, wherever, and they were, some of them were engaging in survival sex work. And the police, the NYPD, were attacking, constantly harassing, and throwing in jail, and just like targeting trans sex workers, essentially. These were the people who were, and are often, the most vulnerable when it comes to interactions with the police, and those were the people who said, \u201cWe are done, we are tired of it.\u201d That story has been whitewashed over time in many ways. One of the very first movies, one of the mainstream movies about Stonewall that we\u2019ve seen, is a bunch of blonde kids from Iowa as the ones fighting back when we know that it wasn\u2019t. Again, it was the street kids, it was the people who were vulnerable. And so their legacy had been erased. And so while we\u2019re hearing voices like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera being mentioned so much, especially in recent years, is because it hadn\u2019t been included so much in the past. And it had been essentially erased. And It\u2019s been restored, and then since then, this administration has tried to erase trans folks from that legacy, taking down the mention of trans from the official website for the Stonewall National Monument, removing trans women, you know, biology, gender, whatever, all these words from all federal government documents and websites. So, I know that was a long answer, but I think it was important for people to know that that\u2019s why it\u2019s important for me and that\u2019s so important to be included in Pride, because it feels like this year in 2026, the same year that the flag came down and went back up, thank goodness, it feels it\u2019s a good time to remind people that trans folks are a very important part of the community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SM:<\/strong>\u00a0A hundred percent. And when I hear you speak all that, you are at the end of the day a very brave person, a very courageous person. You have Trump erasing all references to gender identity from all government documents, taking down the pride flag for what reason? And then his administration unveiled a new counterterrorism strategy that maybe you\u2019ve seen that talks about the biggest concern, which is not at all reflected in the evidence, is left-wing extremists and pro-radical transgender people, whatever that means. I just interviewed two extremism experts for a different episode, who talked about there\u2019s not even one mention of white supremacy, even though all of the evidence points to that being the biggest threat. So I wanna know, you\u2019re an advocate, but you\u2019re also a Black trans woman, triple, quadruple jeopardy as it relates to who this administration\u2019s attacking. How does that make you feel going into this Pride month as grand marshal?<\/p>\n<p><strong>P:<\/strong>\u00a0It really just kind of solidified what I already knew, the absence of white supremacist groups and organizations, and white supremacy as a notion in terms of being a threat, domestic terrorism threat. It\u2019s like the weakest part of that evidence because the biggest part of it was when they removed the proof that the federal government stated in multiple reports that white supremacy was the largest domestic terrorism threat in the United States since the \u201880s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SM:<\/strong>\u00a0And just so the listeners know, the Department of Homeland Security quietly removed that threat from documents so the public would not be privy to it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>P:<\/strong>\u00a0So the absence is just an echo of that, right? Their action of removing that is what really was like, what? I clutched my pearls. So, this latest sort of act is just sort of confirmation of that, and it is terrifying. I want to leave the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SM:<\/strong> You want to leave the country? You do?<\/p>\n<p><strong>P:<\/strong>\u00a0Yeah, part of me wants \u2014 of course. I want to continue to use my platform to advocate for what I feel is right. And part me wants to leave, part of me wants to stay and fight. You know, and I, I think like, what am I, what is this country that I want to fight for? I envision like, am I going to stay and fight and want to risk my life for like a bunch of other people that are just like, \u201cOh well, that\u2019s what happened to the trans people.\u201d Or are we all going to fight? Like, I can\u2019t just fight by myself. We have to fight for each other. Sometimes when we see not only the government putting out documents, official documents on government letterhead that say, \u201cWe\u2019re going to name trans people as terrorists.\u201d But then at the end it\u2019s saying, \u201cWe will find you and we will kill you.\u201d That\u2019s the part that\u2019s like, well, do I need to wait for them to kill me?<\/p>\n<p><strong>SM:<\/strong>\u00a0And just to be clear to the people who haven\u2019t read this document, that is a verbatim quote. They essentially list the terror threats, which include, quote, \u201cpro-transgender radicals,\u201d and then they say, make no mistake, quote, \u201cWe will find you and we will kill you.\u201d I mean, that\u2019s insane.<\/p>\n<p><strong>P:<\/strong>\u00a0That\u2019s in the document.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SM:<\/strong>\u00a0That\u2019s in the document. You mentioned you can\u2019t do this alone. If people are listening to this and they aren\u2019t trans but are concerned and are seeing the stats, what can they do? What can we do to really be there for our trans siblings?<\/p>\n<p><strong>P:<\/strong>\u00a0When I say, \u201cI don\u2019t want to do it alone,\u201d it\u2019s not so much, I need you to defend me, which would be nice; it\u2019s more that I need you to defend yourself by defending me, is what I want people to know. Like the cis community, people who are cisgender, people who\u2019re not trans, and also people who are outside of the queer community, need to know that if rights are what we have, if equal rights are what a democracy gives you and what you have, an attack on those and removal of those rights for who someone is, who they love or their political beliefs, then it is an attack on that very democracy and an attack on the people of that democracy and the people who value those rights. And so, going after people for who they are and removing their passports, naming them as terrorists, threatening to kill them, banning them from all types of government buildings and bathrooms and holding a job and da-da-da, and healthcare, all these things. The only way they can do that to me is if they change the rules to make it possible to do. Now we have a government that can remove people from all these things. So now that means all they have to do is include, you know, let\u2019s include Mormons as terrorists. You know what? I mean, it took them how long to put out this document. Vegans, whatever, I don\u2019t know. Like they can target anyone. It sounds absurd and preposterous because it is, but it won\u2019t take long for them to widen that group to who they want to focus on next.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SM:<\/strong>\u00a0And I know you\u2019ve been outspoken in all different places, including mainstream media. You\u2019ve gone on celebrity.land a few times. I\u2019ve seen you on there. And I worked in mainstream media, \u201c60 Minutes,\u201d the Wall Street Journal. And a big reason I left was because I didn\u2019t feel like the coverage was rigorous enough, was fair enough, was frequent enough. How do you think the mainstream media is doing characterizing the issues plaguing the trans and LGBTQ community right now?<\/p>\n<p><strong>P:<\/strong>\u00a0What is this question? They get an F, for fuck off. They get a terrible F because \u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>SM:<\/strong>\u00a0Tell me why.<\/p>\n<p><strong>P:<\/strong>\u00a0It\u2019s so wild. Yeah, hello. We know that they\u2019re interested because they talk about it on the daily. Every other day, there is mentions of trans people in some way, shape or form, and queer people in general. And so they\u2019re constantly evoking us, talking about us, blaming us, bringing us up, attaching us, associating us, constantly. It is wild that they have so much to say about us and they don\u2019t want to talk to us in general, the mainstream media. They don\u2019t wanna include us. They don\u2019t wanna hear. And I wonder why that is because with many other situations, they would want to go to, sort of like, the subject and speak with them about what it is, or the people who are involved in the story. You want to get their side of the story, except when it\u2019s a situation like this, when it\u2019s the political scapegoat. When it\u2019s the political scapegoat, it actually is imperative that you don\u2019t hear from them, that you just hear about them, because then you can create who they are for other people to sign off on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SM:<\/strong>\u00a0I have a friend, Alaina Kupec, and she\u2019s a trans military veteran and she went on Abby Phillip\u2019s celebrity.land \u201cNewsNight,\u201d the 10 p.m. slot, after Trump passed the trans military ban. She was the only trans person on the panel. Other panelists include Scott Jennings, who is a Trump loyalist who has zero expertise in trans issues, but it created this false equivalency debate between Alaina, who was a military person and is trans, and Scott Jennings, as though both of those opinions should be considered equal from a journalistic perspective. How damaging are those kinds of conversations that are airing on shows like Abby Phillip\u2019s that are, you know, sure we say \u201cAmericans don\u2019t talk but they talk here,\u201d but the majority of Americans perceive that as news still.<\/p>\n<p><strong>P:<\/strong>\u00a0Yeah, it\u2019s not news. It\u2019s obviously just entertainment. And, you know, I really was upset with, I mean, I was really grateful to be on the show and have appeared there with another trans person, particularly, I got a chance to go on there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SM:<\/strong>\u00a0On Abby\u2019s show?<\/p>\n<p><strong>P:<\/strong>\u00a0On Abby\u2019s show, pardon me, yes. But I do think that celebrity.land has always served to launder the reputation, to launder the impact, and soften the perception of the very, very, real impact that sort of centrist politics that celebrity.land holds. It really just exists to protect, sort of like capital and protect big business and sort of corporate, the corporate flow of politics that controls policy. And so I\u2019m not surprised, but I think you\u2019re 100 percent right. There is an epidemic, a habit, a vibe that this country has to just, like, take somebody off the street who has no knowledge about anything at all, other than their own opinion when they hear something, and that opinion when they hear, like, \u201cWhat do you think of this concept that you\u2019ve never heard of but we\u2019re going to give it you and tell us what you think. And then here\u2019s an expert in that, go!\u201d And suddenly, you know, Scott Jennings gets to have an opinion on what I\u2019m doing with my body or what rights I have and you know that thinks it\u2019s harmful, it\u2019s damaging and harmful.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SM:<\/strong>\u00a0And I don\u2019t want to single out, you know, Abby\u2019s show too much because this happens on many different shows across network news, but to hosts like Abby or to producers on these shows \u2014 and I\u2019ve worked in these newsrooms \u2014 who really care and really want to do it right, but might hit blocks. What\u2019s your advice as a trans woman who\u2019s experiencing this? What\u2019s your advice to them? The people who are actually shaping the news packages we\u2019re watching and actually do have some agency in deciding what gets to air.<\/p>\n<p><strong>P:<\/strong>\u00a0My ask is, bring trans people on, at least to talk about the trans issues that you mentioned every day. But besides that, bring trans people on to talk about what\u2019s going on with Medicare. Bring trans people on to talk about what\u2019s going on with the war. Whatever. Bring trans people on to talk about more because those things impact us as well. The simplest thing is gender-affirming care. Gender-affirming care and issues of gender-affirming care, the government telling people what decisions they can make medically with their own body, ties directly with reproductive justice and access to abortion, and making your own medical decisions for your own body. That\u2019s something that we can all talk about. That is an intersection that you could bring a trans person on to talk about.<\/p>\n<p>So I would ask of those other creators, bring trans people on to talk about everything that you wanna talk about, Honey. We got lots to say, and we can add something to the conversation because we have a very unique perspective.<\/p>\n<p>And then beyond that, my advice to celebrity.land is you would want to follow what the other podcasters will be doing and having them on because you will be sealing your own demise and become a lot less relevant than you already are if you don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SM:<\/strong> The least surprising thing from this interview is that you\u2019re very interesting. I want to stick on media though for a second because right now you must know that the Ellisons, billionaires, own Paramount, right? And they, who are MAGA loyalists and they have really reshaped the narrative at CBS News, bringing in Bari Weiss, who is an opinion columnist, but Paramount also owns MTV, which airs \u201cRuPaul\u2019s Drag Race,\u201d which you were a finalist on. Ru and the show have been a groundbreaking TV series as the most successful Emmy award-winning reality TV series of all time. They have been progressive trailblazers for many different reasons for LGBTQ rights. There\u2019s been no messaging on the fact that Paramount\u2019s owned by the Ellisons. Should there be? Should they stay with Paramount? What are your thoughts on that?<\/p>\n<p><strong>P:<\/strong>\u00a0It would be wonderful to see anyone on that show speak out against sort of what is happening in our country with regards to the control over politics and policy and the intersection again of money with politics, especially as related to the Ellisons and the purchase of Paramount. We\u2019ll know when the takeover is complete, when RuPaul is like, \u201cI love Larry Ellison,\u201d cause that\u2019s probably happening. They\u2019re gonna get a script. So let\u2019s just wait for them to get a script and start talking about how great President Trump is, whatever, I don\u2019t know. That\u2019s what I envision happening is they will try to either cut \u201cDrag Race\u201d or use it as a tool to parrot what they want to say. I hope that doesn\u2019t happen, but it\u2019s either one or the other. They\u2019re either gonna get rid of the show, but it\u2019s such a ratings juggernaut that I imagine they\u2019ll probably try to reshape \u201cDrag Race\u201d and take out any political messaging.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SM:<\/strong> That\u2019s what I think about though. Ru has so much money, she doesn\u2019t need any more money, right? And the show is such a ratings juggernaut [that] they could go somewhere else. They have enough power from a ratings perspective that they don\u2019t have to be with Paramount. They\u2019re enough of a product there that they could dip out. Do you think they should dip out given the political climate?<\/p>\n<p><strong>P:<\/strong> I don\u2019t know, I guess I have mixed feelings on it. I certainly see a world where Paramount, celebrity.land, anything under this new umbrella is going to have to follow what their owner and boss wants. Every show, every network that\u2019s been sort of sucked into the umbrella is gonna have to fall in line. That\u2019s what fascism is about. You follow directions. And so I think that\u2019s in the future for the show if they don\u2019t leave. If they don\u2019t leave, then it\u2019s probably going to, just they\u2019ll either be disbanded or we\u2019ll wake up one day and there\u2019s gonna be this weird messaging coming out of drag or something like, where\u2019s the lip sync? Suddenly they\u2019re like forcing us to say the Pledge of Allegiance, but with Donald Trump\u2019s name in it. Like that\u2019s what\u2019s gonna happen. That\u2019s what happens in fascism. Do I think they should? I don\u2019t wanna see a \u201cRuPaul\u2019s Drag Race\u201d that\u2019s teaching us how to march in a certain way. So I don\u2019t know, because by that point, it won\u2019t even matter. But I think if they could just go online and start doing it on YouTube or whatever, I think they could do that. But I think ultimately no linear, traditional television is safe. They own most of it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SM:<\/strong>\u00a0It\u2019s so interesting. You know this from being on camera. I know this from being behind the scenes that there are always little things that the viewer might not realize happen. And I wonder over at Paramount, while they\u2019re putting together \u201cAll Stars\u201d or the next season, whatever it is, the little decisions that could be being made in the final script. And I think that there might be a lot of silent things to the next season that we don\u2019t realize have been edited out to appease the big bosses who are MAGA loyalists. And those are just the things we\u2019ll never know.<\/p>\n<p><strong>P:<\/strong> We\u2019ll never know. And I would be so surprised if they, it would be smart of them to just leave Drag Race alone. Drag Race is a wonderful thing because it\u2019s, because it features wonderful drag entertainers. That\u2019s what\u2019s so great about \u201cDrag Race,\u201d in my opinion. But I don\u2019t rely on Drag Race to get my political anything.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SM:<\/strong> I hear you. Fascinating conversation about media, I could talk about it forever, but we\u2019re going into Pride 2026, right? And we are now six years after the explosion of the Black Lives Matter movement after George Floyd\u2019s murder that spawned into a submovement, the Black Trans Lives Matter Movement. And I\u2019m curious, a lot of that has faded, at least from national international conversations, right? Where do you think we are now in 2026?<\/p>\n<p><strong>P:<\/strong>\u00a0I think we are in a state of emergency, for sure. I think this administration has been successful. That\u2019s where I think we are. It\u2019s like a wild sort of, a wild, wild west. Do I think we need another moment? I mean, hopefully not, considering that what galvanized people was the death of an unarmed Black man. No, I don\u2019t want that to happen, but it continues to happen on the daily and that we\u2019re not marching in the street about it means that the sort of news cycle focus isn\u2019t on it. And I\u2019m grateful to see that people were able to become temporarily activated. And so I think we benefited from that, but I do think that it allowed people to sort of revert or to sort of jump to this automatic sort of social media style performative advocacy or reaction, which I think is a natural human response maybe in this situation. So by that matter, people posting a black square and thinking that they\u2019ve done their part, fine, obviously it wasn\u2019t enough. What I would like to see is instead of another sort of mainstream BLM moment is an awareness that yes, racism exists. Yes, transphobia exists. Yes, we have to fight those things, but also organizing and at the community level, connecting in sort of a mutual aid way so that we can\u2019t say, \u201cOh my god girl, I can\u2019t go out and protest because I\u2019ll lose my job and I won\u2019t be able to pay my rent.\u201d Well, if we can make a way for your rent to be paid, you can go out in protest whether you lose your job or not, and then you don\u2019t care and you\u2019re more likely to challenge the system. And so that is where I want people\u2019s minds to go because it\u2019s gonna be necessary to withstand whatever\u2019s coming.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SM:<\/strong> I want to be respectful of your time. That was great, that was an important answer so thank you.<\/p>\n<p>I think out of all the people we collaborate with, there\u2019s a lot of people who want to amplify our work, but you really are at the top of the list for people who are like I don\u2019t care if this post hasn\u2019t popped or isn\u2019t going to get me more followers or I just want to do this and I can tell your advocacy is absolutely authentic and selfless. How did you get here?<\/p>\n<p><strong>P:<\/strong>\u00a0That\u2019s a good question. I wonder, I sit around asking myself, why am I doing this, like what in the world, but I\u2019m just like driven to it, you know? And it\u2019s something that I would be doing whether I\u2019m alone, whether I am with people, whether there\u2019s a benefit of it or not, it\u2019s not something that I\u2019ve seen that people can do to make money or things like that, most of what I do now is advocacy and all of it is unpaid. And I do it because I care about it and I will continue to do it. But it also means that I\u2019m extremely vulnerable to not being able to survive because I\u2019m not spending my time doing the things that it\u2019s necessary to do to survive. I just want to make sure that we\u2019re able to live and have basic rights, which means, you know, advocacy. And I think it started along, I mean, it definitely started a long time ago and it evolves over time. You know, I think I got it from my grandmother. She was heavily involved in civil rights and so that\u2019s probably where it came from. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s genetic or if it was just instilled as I was watching, but it\u2019s here now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SM:<\/strong>\u00a0And when you got celebrity from \u201cRuPaul\u2019s Drag Race\u201d and other things like that, how did that affect it? Because the celebrity status would have made you in a whole different ballgame with it, I would imagine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>P:<\/strong>\u00a0Yeah, I remember thinking when I got on \u201cRuPaul\u2019s Drag Race,\u201d I was basically, yes, my platform sort of multiplied and sort of exploded tenfold, which I\u2019m grateful for. And I remember thinking, well, I\u2019m basically doing exactly what I\u2019ve always been doing the entire time, just on a larger scale. I believe I\u2019m quite the family-friendly entertainer and personality. But I\u2019m sure that there\u2019s people that have been like, \u201cLet\u2019s not hire her because she might say the wrong thing.\u201d I\u2019m sure that I\u2019ve suffered that, but it doesn\u2019t change that if I lose every follower I have, I\u2019m still gonna be doing the same thing. I\u2019ll just be back to where I was before I started this stuff. And so, you know, that\u2019s kind of my thought on it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SM:<\/strong>\u00a0I love it, and I feel like that is a beautiful place to stop. I could talk to you for a long time, but Peppermint, so grateful that you\u2019ve given us your time. Thank you so much for speaking with me and Uncloseted Media today. This has been a really rich conversation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>P:<\/strong>\u00a0Absolutely. I do want to remind people to tune in to the last job I held, which was \u201cSurvival of the Thickest\u201d on July 2, right after New York City Pride.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SM:<\/strong>\u00a0Absolutely, we can plug that also in the show notes. So yes, thank you again, Peppermint. This was fantastic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>P:<\/strong>\u00a0Awesome, thank you.<\/p>\n<p><em>Season 3 of \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/tudum\/articles\/survival-of-the-thickest-season-3-news-photos-release-date#:~:text=When%20does%20Survival%20of%20the,Survival%20of%20the%20Thickest%20updates.\">Survival of the Thickest<\/a>\u201d featuring Peppermint launches July 2 on Netflix.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.washingtonblade.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uncloseted Media originally published this article on May 26. 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