FOX First Report: A Democratic staffer who recently announced on social media that he was joining the Biden-Harris campaign as deputy press secretary 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, eliciting some congratulatory replies, while others mocked him for joining the “sinking ship” of the Biden campaign and pointed out that his profile states he’s “Drag Queen on the Weekends.” Popular TikTok social media account “Libs of TikTok” touted Lipka’s drag act in a follow-up post that has been viewed 1.5 million times in the past few days.
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 performed at the Unity Alliance Lavender Ball at Hampden-Sydney College, a private, all-male liberal arts school in Virginia, where several drag queens appeared. 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 other posts from the past few years show him participating in drag shows in Richbos Beach, multiple venues in Maryland, Connecticut and various LGBTQ-friendly venues throughout Washington, D.C. An April 2023 Facebook post shows Lipka’s name on a flyer advertising an event called “Looney’s Pub Presents Brunch Tunes” in College Park, Maryland.
“The girls I dragged around with me, [eggplant emoji] “Let’s get our asses down together,” drag queen Nubia Love Jackson said in a 2022 Facebook post with a photo of Jackson and Lipka, to which Lipka replied, “Babe, you already know.”
Here’s an excerpt from an article by Andrew Mark Miller of Fox News.
