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San Francisco is fighting opioid overdoses by giving out Narcan at drag shows — and this queen started it

Summary by The Advocate
Drag queen Kochina Rude didn't go to the party intending to assist someone having an overdose — but she had come prepared.Keep up with the latest in LGBTQ+ news and politics. Sign up for The Advocate's email newsletter.It was 2021, just past the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when the performer encountered a person at a party who had passed out. Seeing that they were unresponsive, which was determined to be due to drug use, Rude administered t…

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The Advocate broke the news in Los Angeles, United States on Monday, June 16, 2025.
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