Ginger Minj


Ginger Minj is the stage name of Joshua Allen Eads, an American drag queen, actor, singer, songwriter, and reality television personality most known for placing as the runner-up on the seventh season of the reality television competition RuPaul's Drag Race and subsequently the second season of .

Early life

Eads was born in Lake County, Florida, and majored in theater at school. His drag mother is Rusty Fawcett.

Career

Eads as Ginger Minj competed on the seventh season of the reality television competition RuPaul's Drag Race, which was announced on March 2, 2015. She placed in the top three in the season, but lost to Violet Chachki. She was announced as one of ten contestants for the second season of on June 17, 2016. She was eliminated in the third episode, placing eighth. She appeared as a guest for the first challenge in the premiere of season eleven of Drag Race.

Music

Eads released her first single, "Ooh Lala Lala" on June 1, 2015. A second single, "Bad, Bad Boy" was released on October 21, 2016.
Her debut album, Sweet T, was released in October 2016 The album consists of a mix of original songs and covers and features of variety of styles including pop, rock, dance, jazz, and soul. Minj contributed to the compilation album Christmas Queens 3 in 2017.
Her second album Clown Fucker was set to be released in December 2018, and was pushed back to early 2019, but remains unreleased.

Acting

Eads was an actor in Clandestine Arts' production of Avenue Q. She performed with other All Stars 2 queens at the Trailblazer Honors for Harvey Fierstein as the only singing performer on July 7, 2016. She was with Katya and Alyssa Edwards on commercial bumpers for a Mama's Family marathon for the Logo channel.
Minj voiced the character Lemon Chiffon in the 2018 Netflix original series Super Drags.
In 2018, he starred in the musical comedy film Dumplin'. In 2020, Eads portrayed Tommy and drag queen Fanny Pak on the Netflix comedy AJ and the Queen alongside RuPaul in the episode "Fort Worth".

Personal life

Eads is from Florida, and was married to his husband by Michelle Visage at a DragCon convention in 2017.

Discography

Studio albums

Singles

Other appearances

Filmography

Film credits

Television credits

Theatre

Music videos

Web series