Drag queen Nymphia Wind performed for President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) at the Presidential Office in Taipei on Wednesday morning, where Tsai praised the RuPaul’s Drag Race winner as giving young people the courage to be themselves.
Wearing an outfit resembling a lotus flower in her signature yellow color, Nymphia performed songs by Hoklo-language singer Huang Fei (黃妃) and Lady Gaga, before being joined by five of her drag daughters for a rendition of Womxnly (玫瑰少年) by Jolin Tsai (蔡依林).
The president gave a short speech after the performance thanking Nymphia and her fellow queens for the performance and sharing their “fearless beauty.”
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“Taiwan is of the world, and Taiwan’s Nymphia is a queen of the world,” she said. “I trust that Nymphia’s journey will give many young people in Taiwan the courage to be fearless and true to themselves.”
Nymphia also thanked Tsai, whom she called “Taiwan’s mother,” for overseeing the passage of marriage equality, serving as the nation’s first female president and providing the atmosphere for people like herself to thrive.
Nymphia, 28, was the winner of the latest season of the internationally acclaimed US edition of RuPaul’s Drag Race, becoming the first Taiwanese and first person of East Asian descent to be named the “next drag superstar.”
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This summer, she is scheduled to perform with the Taiwan Pavilion at the Paris Cultural Olympiad.
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