Sexes will swap looks at a drag show this week.
Virginia Tech’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Alliance will sponsor and host its second annual Drag Show on Thursday from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the GLC Auditorium.
Tami Grossman, club president and senior sociology major, said the event will be a typical drag show, with students dressed up as drag kings and queens to put on their own unique routines.
“There are some group acts, some solo acts — a little bit of everything,” Grossman said.
Grossman also said she expects lots of energy at the show.
Anyone is welcome to perform in the show. Students from Tech, as well as Radford University and Mary Washington University are attending.
Grossman said she and her peers think the show will be a big success if it is anything like last year’s.
“We had a great turnout, a great show,” she said. “We all still talk about it.”
Last year’s show brought out about 200 spectators, and the club predicts the same amount, or more, will attend this year.
“It’s just about having fun. It’s a great way for the community to get together,” Grossman said. “A lot of our events are more serious and are about homophobia or bullying or AIDS. So this is celebrating how you can be whoever you want to be, and where you can be someone you’re not.”
The drag show is free. The LGBTA will also be holding “Freedom to Marry Day” on April 28 to fight for marriage equality.
A version of this article appeared in the Apr 21 issue of the Collegiate Times.
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Itll be interesting to see what ignorance shows up in the comments this time. Hopefully none, but it seems like the anonymous commenters cant help themselves
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Way to be an instigator. At 2:22 YOU made the first comment about ignorance that hasn't reared its ugly head yet.
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I don't know the first thing about drag racing, but I wish all the contestants well. I'll probably stay home and watch a great tap-dancing movie like "Stomp the Yard"!
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"you can be whoever you want to be, and where you can be someone you’re not"
...or someone you are.
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Quote of a quote from a friend: ""Its just about having fun" says the hype. At who's expense I ask? Transgender people that's who suffers the stygma of Drag. That's who."
...so true
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Didn't transgender people invent drag? I wonder if you'll even be able to see the track from atop your high horse. Let these people race in peace!
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