Yet the Daniels drag family is firmly woven in the fabric of the larger community in this area, where voters went solidly for Donald Trump, a Republican, in the last election. Their trouble is more apt to come from politicians who are increasingly passing laws restricting what they can do.
Apart from the twins, the drag performers in this circle are family by choice, not genes. Theirs is an oasis of belonging.“There was a curse being a queer person in a rural town — the curse is that we’ll move ... because there’s no one like us here, there’s no one that can understand us. In their teens, Joshua was the first to turn to drag. Jacob started about six months later, in a white Marilyn Monroe dress at an amateur pageant in 2014.
In March, the Daniels drag family hosted bingo at the Nescopeck fire hall, packed with more than 300 people in a fund-raiser for a nearby theater.