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Tyler Cherry was hired for his identity: Greg Gutfeld
'The
Five' co-hosts discuss the background of Tyler Cherry, the
newly-promoted associate communications director at the White House.
FIRST ON FOX:
A Democrat staffer, who recently announced on social media that he has
joined the Biden-Harris campaign as a deputy press secretary, works as a
"drag queen" on weekends, according to his social media bio and social
media posts reviewed by Fox News Digital
Eric
Lipka, who most recently worked in Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s, D-Mass.,
office before joining the Biden campaign, said he was "thrilled to
share" that he has "joined the Biden-Harris campaign as deputy press
secretary for Pennsylvania!" in a X post on Wednesday.
The post,
which is now private, racked up hundreds of thousands of views over the
last few days with several replies congratulating him, while others
mocked him for joining the Biden campaign’s "sinking ship" and pointed
out his bio that reads, "on weekends: drag queen." The popular Libs of
TikTok social media account amplified Lipka's draq queen gig with a follow-up post that has garnered 1.5 million views over the last few days.
Eric Lipka was recently hired by Biden's PA campaign to serve as deputy communications director. (Eric Lipka on X)
Lipka,
who goes by the drag queen names "Erotica," "Erica Lipka," and "Erotica
the Drag Queen" on social media, has several social media accounts on
X, Facebook, and Instagram, but most of them were private as of Friday
and then all of them were locked down shortly after Fox News Digital
reached out to the Biden campaign for comment on Saturday afternoon.
However,
a Fox News Digital review found Lipka's name tagged in dozens of public
Facebook posts dating back to 2021 when he was still a college student
at Georgetown University. The public Facebook posts were often
promotions for upcoming drag brunches, drag shows, and other events
featuring drag queens, including Lipka.
Earlier this year, he performed
at Hampden Sydney College, a private Virginia liberal arts school for
men, for their Unity Alliance Lavender Ball, an event that featured
several drag queens. Another post from April 2024 lists Lipka as one of
the drag queens participating in an "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 over the last few years show him participating in drag shows in Reheboth Beach,
multiple Maryland venues, Connecticut, and various LGBTQ-friendly
venues across Washington, D.C. In an April 2023 Facebook post, Lipka is
listed on a promotion flyer for an event called "Looney's Pub presents
Brunch Tunes" in College Park, Maryland.
President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. (Getty Images)
"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."
The
Biden campaign defended Lipka in response to a Fox News Digital inquiry
about him participating in drag shows, saying they were "proud" to have
him on their team.
"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.
Lipka’s Instagram, which is now private, also showed him
tagged in multiple photos promoting events featuring drag queens in
Washington, D.C. and Connecticut, many of which were also public on
Facebook. One of Lipka's posts shows him and 'RuPaul's Drag Race' season
15 winner Sasha Colby last year at a DC venue with the caption, "When 2
worlds collide: staffing the boss to meet [Sasha Colby]."
Lipka described the encounter in detail on his Linkedin profile
from when he served as a "communications intern" for Rep. Robert
Garcia, D-Calif., and brought his "perspective as a gay latino" to the
office. He noted that one of the projects that he helped spearhead to
build Garcia’s "brand" and "name I.D" was connecting his office with
'RuPaul's Drag Race' season 15 winner Sasha Colby for a "meet-and-greet
at a D.C. LGBTQ+ venue."
"We then pushed this to our LGBTQ+ lists, which went viral in that community," Lipka continued.
Lipka's
private X and Instagram accounts, which are under the "Erotica" drag
name, have thousands of followers combined. The X bio says "woman from
the neck up" and the Instagram bio says "DC's twirling twunk," which is a
term used among the "LGBTQ community to describe males (typically gay)
with the face of a twink (boyish-looking, pretty) but the body of a hunk
(muscular, jocky)," according to Urban Dictionary.
Interior Department spokesperson Tyler Cherry was appointed to the role in 2021. (Getty Images)
The
Biden campaign hire comes amid the Biden White House facing backlash
for a couple recent controversial hires. Tyler Cherry, who previously
worked for the Department of the Interior, was promoted to the White
House last month as a deputy press secretary. Cherry, however, faced
backlash for several unearthed tweets, including comparing police to
slave patrols and one 2014 anti-Israel post that went viral because it
echoed a lot of the rhetoric currently heard on college campuses.
He
also came under fire for deleting thousands of his tweets after Fox
News Digital reporting. Another recent controversial hire was Andy
Volosky, who joined the White House digital team earlier this month to
serve as the new deputy director of platforms.
Fox News Digital revealed that he celebrated
social media companies "finally, mercifully" banning President Trump on
their platforms and asked "What took them so long?" in a 2021 blog post
days before President Biden took office.
The Biden White House
previously defended both hires, saying in two separate statements that
they were "proud" to have them on their team.
Andrew Mark Miller is a reporter at Fox News. Find him on Twitter @andymarkmiller and email tips to AndrewMark.Miller@Fox.com.