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Queer Eye Meets AOC refers to a meeting between 4/5 members of the cast of Queer Eye and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Washington D.C. The Queer Eye cast visited Washington to advocate for the Equality Act, an amendment to the Civil Rights Act which would prohibit discrimination based on gender and sexual identity. While there, they met with influential Democratic lawmakers including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Nancy Pelosi, leading to parodies of the meeting in the form of object labeling memes and videos.

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On April 4th, the cast of Queer Eye visited Washington D.C. to advocate for the Equality Act.^[1] That day Queer Eye cast member Jonathan Van Ness tweeted^[2] about the purpose of the visit (shown below, left). Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted a selfie with the group that day (shown below, right).

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After photos of the meeting made it on social media, Twitter users parodied the meeting. Comedian Alyssa Limperis posted a video parody of Ocasio-Cortez meeting the cast, gaining over 4,300 retweets and 30,000 likes (shown below).

Others made object labeling memes based off the photos from the event. For example, Dazed^[3] posted an object labeling meme from one of the pictures, gaining over 7,400 likes (shown below, left). Instagram user @notallgeminis^[4] posted an Astrology meme that gained over 12,000 likes (shown below, right). The jokes were covered by Stayhipp.^[1]

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