evidence: Emhoff, 59, the husband of US vice-president Kamala Harris, explained to attendees on a fundraising call organized by a group called Black Gay and Queer Men for Harris that he was with "a gay couple friend" having "coffee, messing around and talking" when people started coming up to them. [...] As California attorney general, she was involved in efforts to abolish gay and transgender "panic" defenses in criminal trials but also backed the state when it sought to deny gender-affirmation surgery to a trans prisoner. Among the queer-themed merchandising on Harris’s campaign website are "Kamala Trans Pride" sticker sets and mugs with her wearing different pant suits in colors that, put side-by-side, echo the rainbow. [...] Meanwhile, Harris had crashed the season finale of the hit show RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars, urging Americans to vote, the Associated Press reported, in an appearance taped before Biden dropped out of the campaign and anointed her as his preferred successor.