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Mary Altaffer / AP file
An Arizona drag queen said she has one question for Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., after he featured her in a campaign ad: “Why are you so obsessed with me and Drag Story Hour?”
Lil Miss Hot Mess, a drag performer who lives in Arizona and performs in Los Angeles, said a friend messaged her on Sept. 28 telling her that they saw her in one of Rubio’s campaign ads while watching the Weather Channel in Florida.
“The radical left will destroy children if we don’t stop them,” Rubio says in the ad, which is also on Facebook. “They indoctrinate children, try to turn boys into girls.”
As Rubio is speaking, the ad shows a video of Lil Miss Hot Mess reading to children during a Drag Queen Story Hour — a national program started in 2015 in which drag performers read to kids to encourage reading and celebrate diversity, according to the program’s website.
Lil Miss Hot Mess, who asked to go by her stage name due to safety concerns, responded to Rubio’s ad in a video shared by GLAAD, an LGBTQ media advocacy group.