Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Saturday offered her congratulations to the Taiwanese drag queen Nymphia Wind for winning RuPaul's Drag Race, the first person from East Asia to take the crown. Tsai and her ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) have championed LGBTQ+ rights making the island a bastion of liberal values, and in 2019 Taiwan legalised same sex marriage in a first for Asia.
Philly drag queen Sapphira Cristál competed in the semi-final in the MTV competition show, relaying many of her personal and familial experiences in a memoir written for this week's challenge. Sapphira opened up about her hip dysplasia and her relationship with her grandmother.