Erika Kirk drag queen gets huge backlash from raging conservatives: ‘Disgusting filth’
Drag performer Lauren Banall is using her impersonation of Erika Kirk to raise funds for the ACLU. (TikTok/@LaurenBanall/Getty)
Drag performer Lauren Banall is using her impersonation of Erika Kirk to raise funds for the ACLU. (TikTok/@LaurenBanall/Getty)
LA-based drag queen Lauren Banall, who has gone viral with performances cosplaying as Erika Kirk, has been hit with huge backlash from raging conservatives.
Banall has gone viral for her satirical performances as “Erika Qwerk”, gaining enough popularity to fundraise for US civil rights charity the American Civil Liberties Union in want to stop the Trump administration.
But followers of Erika Kirk, the wife of right-wing Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk – who was shot and killed while speaking at an event at Utah Valley University last – are not happy with Banall’s act.
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Emily Finn, co-host of the Real America’s Voice’s American Sunrise show, condemned the drag performances as “a mockery of a conservative icon”.
She added: “Outrage has boiled over with conservatives calling it a heartless exploitation of grief and a new low in the culture wars. Critics say this isn’t just satire, it’s a personal attack. And once again, the left celebrates mockery of conservative figures.”
Her co-host David Brody called the performances “pure evil” and called on Banall to “leave this poor woman alone”.
A conservative account on X called the drag queen’s performances “disgusting”, adding: “Absolutely low – mocking real grief after such tragedy is vile.”
Libs of TikTok also condemned the act as “absolutely disgusting”, although the post was flooded with comments from people hitting out at the anti-LGBTQ+ account for not being able to take a joke.
“Now all of a sudden you can’t take dark humour,” a comment with 40,000 likes read.
A different repost of a clip of the drag queen was captioned: “Leftists sit, watch, laugh and clap as a drag queen named ‘Erika Qwerk’ mocked Erika Kirk and her grieving after her husband Charlie Kirk was assassinated.
“This is who the ‘tolerant left’ really is. A bunch of vile, hateful, and disgusting filth.”
Banall previously said that she created Erika Qwerk “from feeling so helpless and gaslit in this political moment”.
She explained: “So many things feel so insane, so not-normal, and it feels like no one is addressing it. I kept seeing [Erika Kirk] over and over again in different interviews and events, and kept being bewildered by her strange behaviour. Eventually, I saw a TikTok where someone added the horror noise every time she squinted her icy blue eyes in a menacing manner, and it made me laugh so hard. I thought, ‘finally it feels like someone sees what I see.’”
In recent weeks, Erika Kirk has made numerous press and event appearances, most notably on stage at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest in December where she interviewed rapper-turned-Trump-advocate, Nicki Minaj.
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