Marti Gould Cummings

Marti Gould Cummings is an American drag queen, activist, and television personality. They competed on Drag Me to Dinner and the twenty-third season of Worst Cooks in America. They were a cast member of the 2017 reality television series Shade: Queens of NYC and, since 2020, host of The Marti Report on Logo TV. Cummings unsuccessfully ran in the 2021 New York City Council election, becoming the first openly non-binary candidate to run for public office in New York City. In May 2025, they set a Guinness World Record by becoming the first drag queen to perform on all seven continents. Cummings served as a Grand Marshall of NYC Pride 2025.

Career Cummings started the political organizing group Hell's Kitchen Democrats in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. In 2021, they became the first openly non-binary candidate to run for office in New York City when they ran for the District 7 seat on the New York City Council, which includes Manhattan Valley, Morningside Heights, Manhattanville and Hamilton Heights. Their campaign was featured in the documentary Queen of New York. Cummings speaking at the Tyler Clementi Foundation's 11th Annual Upstander Legacy Celebration in 2025. They have worked with the Ali Forney Center, the Tyler Clementi Foundation, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, and the Hetrick-Martin Institute to support LGBTQ youth.

As a drag queen in New York City, Cummings has performed at Pieces Bar, Hardware Bar, Therapy NYC, Rise Bar, the Stonewall Inn, The West End, Boxers NYC Washington Heights, and Talde Jersey City. They host the talk show The Marti Report on LogoTV. Cummings speaking at the Gays Against Guns Rally for El Paso & Dayton in 2019. Cummings has been featured on the Out100 list and in Vogue. They used their platform as Grand Marshall to condemn United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids, genocide, and violence and oppression of transgender people and immigrants.

They married the musician and composer Blake Allen in 2016. They divorced in 2022. In 2025, Cummings became engaged to John Robbie.

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