“I literally just bought the most expensive thing of hand sanitizer.'
Though Marti Gould Allen-Cummings moved from a small farm in Maryland to the big city fifteen years ago to pursue a career in musical theater, they instead found themselves a celebrated drag queen. Now, they’re sliding onto a different stage: New York’s District 7 City Council. “I am often pitchy in my singing,” Cummings says, laughing. “So I fell into the world of drag.”
If elected, Allen-Cummings would be the first drag queen—and first non-binary person—to serve the district, which includes the Manhattan neighborhoods Washington Heights, Hamilton Heights, Morningside Heights, West Harlem, and a part of the Upper West Side. The 32-year-old star of Logo’s six-episode seriesis vying for the soon-to-be-vacated seat of term-limited councilman Mark Levine in the forthcoming 2021 cycle.
“I’m excited to be a true queen for the people and do the work,” Allen-Cummings tells me. “This city has increasingly become a place for the wealthy. We need the city to be a place for everyday people. I want a city council that is fully diverse.” Over coffee at Max’s Caffe in New York’s Morningside Heights, Allen-Cummings shared gut reactions to a list of 18 topics—chosen at semi-random—ranging from Elizabeth Warren to scrunchies to the coronavirus, while being filmed by a small crew for an independent documentary about their grassroots campaign. —BRIAN ALESSANDRO
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