DRAG OUT THE VOTE

In the 2016 election, approximately 100 million people did not vote. Currently, one out of five LGBTQ+ adults are not registered to vote. In the 2018 midterms, youth voter turnout had a historic high of only 35 percent.

These facts, now boldly displayed on the Drag Out The Vote website (DragOutTheVote2020.org), were shocking and disheartening to the organization’s founder, Jackie Huba, when she first learned of them. But rather than sending the successful marketing executive into a deep depression, the disturbing statistics actually lit a fire in Huba to set forth and try to change them.

But how? Well, with drag of course.

“It started,” recalls Huba of first meeting the performer back in 2012, while she was doing book research. “I was on a drag cruise with him, and he’s one of the first people who put me in drag, so we’ve become very good friends.”