A former Chicagoan has failed in her bid to become the first drag queen in Congress.
G. “Maebe A. Girl” Pudlo, picked up 11.6 percent of the vote, placing second among six candidates seeking to unseat Los Angeles-area Democratic U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff in Tuesday’s primary.
Schiff had about 57 percent of the vote in the 28th Congressional District, according to the California secretary of state’s website.
Pudlo was born in Pittsburgh, but her family moved to Chicago when she was nine. She lived here through her late 20s. She didn’t do drag — or identify as a woman — when she was in Chicago.
The Chicago Sun-Times featured her, as George Pudlo, back in 2010, leading “Second City Pizza Tours.” She began doing drag about five years ago, after moving to L.A.
