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'''Lady MAGA''' is a [[drag queen]] who supported [[Donald Trump]] during the [[United States presidential election, 2020]]. The Lady MAGA character is performed by a [[Salt Lake City]] resident who uses the [[pseudonym]] "Ryanna Woods".
==Performer==
Ryanna Woods was raised in Salt Lake City, Utah as a member of the [[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints]].<ref name="leon"></ref> By the late 2010s, Ryanna Woods had established a reputation in the small community of drag queens in Salt Lake City, Utah for her characterizations of [[Disney]] princesses.<ref name="peter"></ref> Woods – who is gay – said that he felt ostracized when he decided to vocalize his support for Donald Trump to friends within the LGBTQI community in the mid 2010s.<ref name="leon"/>
==Character==
===Debut===
In August of 2019, in posts to his [[social media]] accounts, Woods unveiled the Lady MAGA character declaring that "I support President Trump, and I believe that together we can make America gay … I mean great again!”<ref name="peter"/> According to Woods, his motivation for creating the Lady MAGA character was out of concern for the future of [[gun rights]] in the United States.<ref></ref>
The Lady MAGA character was described by [[Real Clear Politics]] as approximately in height "with long blond hair ... a red-white-blue tutu and red 8-inch heeled knee-high go-go boots".<ref></ref> "MAGA" is an abbreviation for "Make America Great Again", a campaign slogan used by the [[Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign]] and [[Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign]].<ref></ref>
===Appearances===
Lady MAGA attended a number of Donald Trump, and other political, rallies in Utah during the 2020 United States presidential election, and addressed rallies organized by gay supporters of Trump in [[Los Angeles]] and [[Nashville]] in October 2020.<ref></ref><ref name="peter"/><ref></ref><ref></ref> She also appeared at the [[Conservative Political Action Conference]] in March 2020 in [[National Harbor, Maryland]], among other conservative political events.<ref></ref> Woods was present during a confrontation between supporters and opponents of Donald Trump in [[San Francisco]]'s [[Mission District]] in early 2020, described by Mission Local as "a tense and bizarre scene".<ref></ref>
===Reception===
Woods' unveiling of the Lady MAGA character was generally unwelcome by many drag queens in [[Utah]], though the ''Salt Lake City Weekly'' also noted that, though they disagreed with him, some felt Woods was "brave" for taking a political stand at odds with that generally accepted by the larger [[LGBTQI]] community.<ref name="peter"/>
Woods has said that he is aware some Trump supporters were uncomfortable with his presence at Donald Trump campaign rallies but that he was generally "left alone" and that he "felt like the beauty of America is there's room for everyone, even people who might not want to bake me a cake at their bakery".<ref name="leon"/>
==See also==
* [[Log Cabin Republicans]]
* [[Lucian Wintrich]], a political activist who organized a "Twinks for Trump" unofficial campaign event in 2016
* [[Pink Pistols]]
* [[Obama Girl]], a character performed by Amber Lee Ettinger who supported the Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign
==References==
==External links==
* [https://ift.tt/3kFLn2T 2019 photograph of Lady MAGA from the Washington Post]
* [https://ift.tt/2NodX9I Official website]
[[Category:Drag queens]]
[[Category:Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign]]
[[Category:Politics of Utah]]
[[Category:LGBT conservatism in the United States]]
==Performer==
Ryanna Woods was raised in Salt Lake City, Utah as a member of the [[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints]].<ref name="leon"></ref> By the late 2010s, Ryanna Woods had established a reputation in the small community of drag queens in Salt Lake City, Utah for her characterizations of [[Disney]] princesses.<ref name="peter"></ref> Woods – who is gay – said that he felt ostracized when he decided to vocalize his support for Donald Trump to friends within the LGBTQI community in the mid 2010s.<ref name="leon"/>
==Character==
===Debut===
In August of 2019, in posts to his [[social media]] accounts, Woods unveiled the Lady MAGA character declaring that "I support President Trump, and I believe that together we can make America gay … I mean great again!”<ref name="peter"/> According to Woods, his motivation for creating the Lady MAGA character was out of concern for the future of [[gun rights]] in the United States.<ref></ref>
The Lady MAGA character was described by [[Real Clear Politics]] as approximately in height "with long blond hair ... a red-white-blue tutu and red 8-inch heeled knee-high go-go boots".<ref></ref> "MAGA" is an abbreviation for "Make America Great Again", a campaign slogan used by the [[Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign]] and [[Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign]].<ref></ref>
===Appearances===
Lady MAGA attended a number of Donald Trump, and other political, rallies in Utah during the 2020 United States presidential election, and addressed rallies organized by gay supporters of Trump in [[Los Angeles]] and [[Nashville]] in October 2020.<ref></ref><ref name="peter"/><ref></ref><ref></ref> She also appeared at the [[Conservative Political Action Conference]] in March 2020 in [[National Harbor, Maryland]], among other conservative political events.<ref></ref> Woods was present during a confrontation between supporters and opponents of Donald Trump in [[San Francisco]]'s [[Mission District]] in early 2020, described by Mission Local as "a tense and bizarre scene".<ref></ref>
===Reception===
Woods' unveiling of the Lady MAGA character was generally unwelcome by many drag queens in [[Utah]], though the ''Salt Lake City Weekly'' also noted that, though they disagreed with him, some felt Woods was "brave" for taking a political stand at odds with that generally accepted by the larger [[LGBTQI]] community.<ref name="peter"/>
Woods has said that he is aware some Trump supporters were uncomfortable with his presence at Donald Trump campaign rallies but that he was generally "left alone" and that he "felt like the beauty of America is there's room for everyone, even people who might not want to bake me a cake at their bakery".<ref name="leon"/>
==See also==
* [[Log Cabin Republicans]]
* [[Lucian Wintrich]], a political activist who organized a "Twinks for Trump" unofficial campaign event in 2016
* [[Pink Pistols]]
* [[Obama Girl]], a character performed by Amber Lee Ettinger who supported the Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign
==References==
==External links==
* [https://ift.tt/3kFLn2T 2019 photograph of Lady MAGA from the Washington Post]
* [https://ift.tt/2NodX9I Official website]
[[Category:Drag queens]]
[[Category:Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign]]
[[Category:Politics of Utah]]
[[Category:LGBT conservatism in the United States]]
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