Hi, My Gay Boys! Katharine McPhee Supports the Republicans' Senate Majority

Well, it looks like Katharine McPhee is a Republican—not all that shocking, considering how she, uhhhh, literally looks like a Republican. (I mean, we’re looking at the same photo, right?) But, still. A moment of silence for the Smash gays.

I first got wind of this disappointing, though not entirely surprising, possibility while scrolling through Twitter last night right before I went to bed. In a tweet I saw that I can’t seem to find again this morning, someone had posted what appear to be screenshots of a person named Katharine McPhee making two separate donations in 2020 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee, or NRSC, a committee focused on electing Republican senators and maintaining the GOP’s majority in the Senate.

Thankfully, I was able to independently verify the information contained in that tweet on Sunday through the Federal Election Commission’s online database of individual contributions. According to FEC public records, a self-employed singer named Katharine McPhee who lives in Los Angeles donated a total of $500 to the NRSC earlier this year.

Fans of McPhee would probably be crushed to learn that she supports the more overtly and consistently racist, homophobic, misogynistic, imperialist, and transphobic of the United States’ two major political parties—particularly all of the gay fans that she has actively courted for years now on social media, calling them “my gay boys” and doing her best to stay fluent in the online gay parlance du jour, or at least hiring someone who is.

Of course, this all depends on whether the Katharine McPhee listed in the FEC’s database is the same Katharine McPhee who nearly won season five of American Idol and went on to star in the short-lived though much-beloved NBC musical series, Smash. I reached out to her publicist to confirm if she is. I have yet to hear back, but I’ll update the post if I do.