First appeared on FOX: A Democratic staffer who recently announced on social media that he has been named deputy press secretary for the Biden-Harris campaign has been working as a “drag queen” over the weekend, according to his social media profiles and social media posts reviewed by Fox News Digital.
Eric Lipka, who worked in the office of Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren before joining the Biden campaign, said in a Wednesday X post that he was “excited to announce that I’ve joined the Biden-Harris campaign as deputy press secretary for Pennsylvania.”
The post, which is now private, has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times in the past few days, with some replies offering congratulations, others mocking her for joining the “sinking ship” of the Biden campaign and others pointing out that her profile says she’s “a drag queen on the weekends.” Amplified Lipka’s Drug Queen Gig The subsequent post has been viewed 1.5 million times in the past few days.
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Eric Lipka was recently hired by Biden’s Pennsylvania campaign as deputy communications director. (About Eric Lipka’s X)
Lipka, who goes by the drag queen names “Erotica,” “Erika Lipka” and “Erotica the Drag Queen” on social media, has multiple social media accounts on X, Facebook and Instagram, most of which were made private as of Friday, and all were locked shortly after Fox News Digital reached out to the Biden campaign for comment on Saturday afternoon.
However, a Fox News Digital investigation found that Lipka’s name was tagged in dozens of public Facebook posts dating back to 2021, when he was an undergraduate student at Georgetown University. The public Facebook posts were mostly promotions for upcoming drag brunches, drag shows and other events featuring drag queens, including Lipka.
Earlier this year, He played Lipka appeared at an event featuring several drag queens at Hampden-Sydney College’s Unity Alliance Lavender Ball, a private liberal arts college for men in Virginia. Another post from April 2024 lists Lipka as one of the drag queens participating in the “Elevate your brunch” drag event the following month.
In January 2024, Lipka was listed as one of the drag queens participating in an event called “Saint Saturday” in Richmond, Virginia.
Dozens of posts over the past few years show him participating. Drag show at Rehebos Beachat multiple venues in Maryland, as well as LGBTQ-friendly venues across Connecticut and Washington, D.C. In an April 2023 Facebook post, Lipka’s name appears on a flyer advertising an event called “Looney’s Pub Presents Brunch Tunes” in College Park, Maryland.
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“The girls I dragged around with me, [eggplant emoji] Let’s get our asses down together,” said drag queen Nubia Love Jackson. Facebook Posts for 2022 The post was accompanied by a photo of Jackson and Lipka, to which Lipka replied, “Babe, I already know.”
When contacted by Fox News Digital about Lipka’s participation in the drag show, the Biden campaign defended Lipka, saying they were “proud” to have him in the campaign.
“We are proud that Eric and our team of 200 talented Pennsylvania staffers are highlighting Trump’s record of destroying 275,000 jobs across our state and his discriminatory, extreme Project 2025 policies that have made life worse for our families,” said Jack Doyle, the Biden campaign’s Pennsylvania communications director.
Lipka’s Instagram, which is now private, contains multiple promotional photos for events featuring drag queens in Washington, D.C. and Connecticut, many of which were also publicly available on Facebook. One of Lipka’s posts shows him and Sasha Colby, winner of season 15 of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” at a D.C. venue last year, with the caption, “When two worlds collide: staffing up to meet the boss.” [Sasha Colby]”
Lipka described the encounter as follows: More details on his Linkedin profile He recounted his time working as a “communications intern” for Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), where he brought his “gay Latino perspective” to the office. He said one of the projects he helped spearhead to build Garcia’s “brand” and “name recognition” was connecting his office with Sasha Colby, winner of season 15 of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” for a “meet-up at a DC LGBTQ+ venue.”
“Then we put it on the LGBTQ+ list and it spread within that community,” Lipka continued.
Lipka’s private X and Instagram accounts, under the drag name “Erotica,” have a combined thousands of followers. Her X profile describes her as “female from the neck up,” while her Instagram profile says she’s a “twirling twink from DC,” which, according to Urban Dictionary, is “a term used in the LGBTQ community to describe a man (typically gay) with a twink (boyish, cute) face and a hunk (muscular, jock) body.”
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The Biden campaign’s hires come as the Biden administration faces backlash over recent controversial appointments. Tyler Cherry, who previously worked at the Interior Department, was promoted to the White House as deputy press secretary last month. But Cherry faced backlash over several unearthed tweets, including one that likened police to slave patrols and a 2014 anti-Israel post that went viral as reflecting much of the rhetoric heard on college campuses today.
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He also came under fire for deleting thousands of his own tweets after the Fox News Digital report. Another recent controversial hire is Andy Borowski, who joined the White House digital team earlier this month as the new deputy director for platforms.
In a 2021 blog post just days before Biden’s inauguration, Fox News Digital congratulated social media companies for “finally and mercifully” banning Trump from their platforms and questioned “why it took so long.”
The Biden administration previously defended both hires in two separate statements, saying it was “proud” to have them on the team.
