Biden campaign comms strategy director in key state is also ‘Erotica the Drag Queen’
As if the Biden-Harris campaign hasn't already had enough upsets with their headliner dropping out of the race, it appears more shenanigans are in store.
A recent post about a staffer for the campaign has been garnering headlines, due to his pointed and public performances in drag shows, Fox News reported.
According to his bio and the social media posts examined by Fox News Digital, a Democrat staffer who has just announced his new role in the Biden-Harris campaign as deputy press secretary also works as a "drag queen" on weekends.
As of Wednesday, Eric Lipka—who was "thrilled to share" that he had "joined the Biden-Harris campaign as deputy press secretary for Pennsylvania!"—had previously worked in the office of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) before joining the Biden campaign.
The Exposé
In a subsequent post that has gained 1.5 million views in the past four days, the famous Libs of TikTok social media account magnified Lipka's drag queen gig.
Lipka, who uses the handles "Erotica," "Erica Lipka," and "Erotica the Drag Queen" online, has multiple Instagram, Facebook, and X accounts, but made the majority of them private on Friday.
On Saturday, when Fox News Digital contacted the Biden campaign for comment, he promptly locked down all of Lipka's accounts.
Intentional Displays
In April of 2024, there was another article that featured Lipka as one of the drag queens that will be performing at the "Elevate your brunch" drag event that month.
One of the drag queens listed for an event in Richmond, Virginia called "Saint Saturday" in January 2024 was Lipka.
His participation in drag events in Rehoboth Beach, several venues in Maryland, Connecticut, and different LGBTQ-friendly locations in Washington, D.C. is documented in dozens of additional posts from the past few years. Listed on a promotional flier for an event in College Park, Maryland titled "Looney's Pub presents Brunch Tunes" in April 2023, Lipka appears on Facebook.
"The girls that drag together, [eggplant emoji] bottoms down together," drag queen Nubia Love-Jackson said in a 2022 Facebook post accompanied by a photo of Jackson and Lipka. Lipka replied, "babyyyyy u already know."
Campaign Response
When Fox News Digital inquired about Lipka's involvement in drag shows, the Biden campaign stood up for him and declared themselves "proud" to have him on board.
"We're proud to have a team of 200 talented Pennsylvania staffers, including Eric, highlighting Trump's record killing 275,000 jobs across the commonwealth and his discriminatory and extreme Project 2025 agenda to make life worse for our families," said Jack Doyle, the Pennsylvania communications director for the Biden campaign.
Although Lipka has since made his Instagram private, he was tagged in a number of images that promoted drag queen events in Connecticut and Washington, D.C., some of which were also shared on Facebook.
Lipka posted a photo of himself and Sasha Colby, winner of season 15 of "RuPaul's Drag Race," at a location in Washington, DC, last year with the statement, "When 2 worlds collide: staffing the boss to meet [Sasha Colby]."