Peppermint: Everyone’s Favorite Flavor
About Peppermint: A longtime key figure in queer nightlife, actress & singer Peppermint regularly performs to sold-out crowds around the world. She has released six albums; Hardcore Glamour, Servin’ It Up, Sugar & Spiked, Black Pepper, A Girl Like Me: Letters To My Lovers and Moment of Weakness, available on all streaming platforms.
Recent projects include: guest star in the 2023 Netflix series Survival of the Thickest with comedian Michelle Buteau, guest star in Hulu’s hit rom-com movie Fire Island alongside Saturday Night Live's Bowen Yang, Joel Kim Booster & Margaret Cho, co-starring in OUTtv’s Call Me Mother drag competition series, co-hosting Amazon Prime talk show Translation, guest star in season 1 &2 of Amazon’s Harlem, hosted (New York & San Francisco) and presented (Los Angeles) at the 2020 & 2022 GLAAD Media Awards, hosted/moderated Black Queer Town Hall with co-creator Bob The Drag Queen, guest appearance on Ryan Murphy’s Emmy award winning series Pose, recurring role on the CBS series God Friended Me and a guest role on the Fox scripted drama Deputy.
Peppermint, who is the ACLU’s first-ever Artist Ambassador for Trans Justice, has raised six-figure sums for prominent LGBT rights groups, partnered with MAC Cosmetics’ “M.A.C. AIDS Fund” and is involved in the HIV Vaccine trials network. She partnered with RuPaul Drag Race winner Sasha Velour for a college speaking tour that focused on the challenges faced by transgender and non-binary people in today’s political climate among various other topics. Peppermint takes every available opportunity to speak at universities and to various communities on the issues.
Peppermint is currently nominated for a 2022 GLAAD Media Award in the Outstanding Online Journalism category for her contribution to the Discovery+ Legendary series and was awarded 2020 “Best Songwriter” by World of Wonder’s Wowie Awards. Previous honors include: GLAAD Media Award nomination alongside Lady Gaga & Kehlani for Outstanding Music Artist (2021), Conde Nast’s Queeroes award (2018), Variety’s prestigious “New Power of New York” list, and was named one of Out Magazine’s “OUT100” portfolio of the most influential LGBTQ people of the year.
