Less than 24 hours after Vice President Kamala Harris announced she would run for president following Joe Biden’s exit from the race, queer people flooded the internet with raunchy videos and memes about her candidacy.
A supercut of Harris laughing, with a Charli XCX song from the album “Brat”, It quickly went viral, with over 1.3 million views. A few hours after the announcement, photos and videos circulated of a group of men at Fire Island Pines, a gay-friendly beach on New York’s Long Island, wearing short lime green “brat” t-shirts — the color of Charli XCX’s album — with “Kamala” emblazoned on the cover in the same font used on the album.
“BRAT Kamala shirts are already on Fire Island. Gays move SO FAST,” one user wrote.
Some LGBTQ people shared their support through memes and videos. And there was no shortage of exaggerated, queer-coded posts referring to Harris as “mom.”
“BIDEN IS OUT!” one person wrote in X.”MOTHER KAMALA… IT’S YOUR TIME.”
Another user wrote, “Knee-deep in the passenger seat and Biden has given up, is it Kamala now?” using lyrics from the song “Casual” by queer pop icon Chappell Roan.
A TikTok user has been resurrected comparing photos Harris for “The L Word” character Bette Porter, a powerful lesbian with an enviable pantsuit collection, played by Jennifer Beals.
“Bette Porter walked so Madam President Kamala Harris could run,” the TikTok post read.
Others connected a speech Harris gave referring to coconuts for trans pop artist Song by Kim Petras, “Coconuts”.
Through the Internet, coconuts and the coconut emoji they became expressions of support for Harris.
“All aboard the coconut express!!!” one person wrote on X, alongside a video of Harris performing RuPaul’s song “Call Me Mother.”
Support for Harris’ candidacy extended offline to LGBTQ rights groups, including the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ advocacy organization in the country. The group praised her work as California’s attorney general to end the so-called gay/trans panic defense, which allowed those accused of murder to receive lesser sentences, saying they panicked after they discovered their sexual orientation or identity. victim’s gender.
She was also endorsed by 10 of the 12 openly LGBTQ members of Congress, including Sens. Tammy Baldwinof Wisconsin, and Laphonza Butler, from California; and representatives. Angie Craigfrom Minnesota; Ritchie Torresfrom New York; Becca Balint, from Vermont; It is Marcos TakanoCalifornia, among others.
However, the praise was not uniform across the LGBTQ community. Harris faced criticism for supporting the Biden administration’s policies on the Israel-Hamas war.
“Kamala, you will have our votes when you end US support for the genocide in Gaza. It’s that simple,” drag performer and activist Pattie Gonia wrote Monday on Instagram.
Others noted that during his time As California’s attorney general, Harris worked for block a trans woman of receiving gender-affirming surgery in prison in 2015.
When a reporter asked Harris about the 2015 case At an LGBTQ presidential forum in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 2019, she said she worked behind the scenes to get the California Department of Corrections to change its policy of denying such care to trans inmates, The lawyer reported.
“I commit to you that always in these systems there will be these things that these agencies do. And I will commit, as I always have, to dealing with it,” Harris said at the forum.
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