SUN JOURNAL • February 26, 2025
For the second year that the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife asked Ophelia Johnson and Letta the Queen, drag queens from Topsham and Portland, to lead activities at the Winter Extravaganza at Range Pond State Park, where activities included free ice-fishing instruction, snowmobiling practice, guided hikes, and knot-tying and cooking demonstrations. Outreach Director Emily MacCabe said that queer people, especially drag queens, are rarely seen participating in traditionally male-dominated outdoor sports like ice fishing. “When you think of the outdoors, and in specific to ice fishing, you think of the boys’ club,” Johnson said. “It’s very much that kind of ingrained misogyny, whereas events like this help to show that it’s not just the guys that can go out and do that, it’s anybody.”