A congressman who has criticised LGBT people becomes late-night comedy fodder after his apparent drag queen past emerges.
But the revelations of his drag queen past have left even more questions to answer as he settles into the ranks of a Republican Party increasingly hostile to drag culture.
Right-wing groups across the country have targeted drag story hours - in which drag queens read stories to children in libraries, schools and bookstores - and parental rights' groups have opposed drag events, which many in conservative media claim are "grooming" and "sexualising" children. Organised opposition of this kind was last seen in the 1970s, he says, when activists and evangelical Christian leaders launched a "moral panic" that came to be known as the Save Our Children coalition.
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