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April 22, 2010
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Queens arrive to take the stage
Rozsa hosts Keweenaw Pride’s 10th annual Drag Show MICHAEL FRIESEN Lode Writer
The Rosza will be decorated and the show equipped: “The
the Rosza, there is also some trade-off. “The one big drawback
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his week marks the 10th Annual Pride Week at Michigan Tech’s campus. Various events were held throughout the week, which will be capped by undoubtedly the biggest event, the drag show. The drag show, to be held at 8 p.m. in the Rosza, is the highlight of Pride Week. Admission is $2 for MTU students and $5 for the general public this year. The show has been the most popular event of Pride Week, and has been growing every year. According to Jordan Marlor, Keweenaw Pride’s Pride Week chair, the size of the crowd was one of the factors in the decision to move to the Rosza: “the ballroom’s actually not big enough for the crowd that we’ve gotten; there are actually people that are turned away from the drag show in previous years because the room is at capacity.” Performing this year will be professional entertainers Joey Black, Tabatha Stevens, Candi Stratton, and Cass Marie Domino. A fifth performer, Genevee, was scheduled to come, but had to cancel. Additionally, after the main performers there will be an amateur competition, which had five participants listed as of Sunday night.
Strutting Their Stuff: Cass Marie Domino and Joey Black wow onlookers at the 2009 Drag Show.
entire Rosza lobby is going to be lit up like a giant pride flag,” said Marlor, “KISS will be setting up a safe-sex table they’ll be giving out condoms.” For the show itself, “We have two spotlights, we have a fog machine we have intelligent lighting.” Though there is much benefit to be expected with the move to
Photo courtesy of: Michael Senkow
of the show is the lack of a catwalk. That’s always been a staple of every drag show, the catwalk,” said Marlor. He said that he and the Pride Week committee had discussed ideas for a catwalk in the Rosza, but none of the ideas panned out. He said that audience participation would still be allowed, but that audience members
sides. Marlor said that there would also be an option to make charitable donations at the drag show. He said that the charity to be benefited had not been decided at the time, but proposed options were the Trevor Project, a charity dedicated to helping homeless LGBT youth, the Aids Research Founda-
tion, the Human Rights Campaign, or even donating the money to the Student Government fund. For this year’s Pride Week, effort and emphasis has been placed on “making it so everybody’s involved, it’s not just Keweenaw Pride. We are partnered with five other student groups,” said Marlor, “which is more than we’ve ever had in any of our pride weeks.” These groups included K.I.S.S., S.A.C.S., Howl, the Safe Place Fund, and S.E.B. Marlor said that the drag show was part of that, saying “the drag show is always just a really really fun show for everybody and this is experimental, it really is,” said Marlor. “This year I really hope that it’ll be huge and be just a massively great show.” Speaking about the show in past years and present, he said “The drag show is always just a really, really fun show for everybody, doesn’t matter if you’re gay [or] straight.” On Thursday night, you have the opportunity to “Meet the Queens” in Fisher 135 at 8 p.m. It is an informal social held every year the day before the drag show where the performers, in their day-to-day attire, “answer questions about their lives, their art form, and then also what it means to be a drag queen,” said Marlor.
Flinging Milkshakes and Digging Deep Chilly, gusty weather didn’t blow away all of the events during MTU’s Spring Fling.
Photos by: Alex Cotton
Though the weather was less than cooperative, MTU students still managed to make the most of this year’s Spring Fling. Top right: John Kinzinger, a fourth year, takes the milkshake toss like a champ. Bottom right: another MTU student feels the same frosty pain, as multiple students aim towards him. Bottom left: the Purple Platypi were crowned the champions of the Women’s bracket in this year’s Oozeball competition. The Wads Learning Community Staff put on a milkshake toss to raise money to buy new uniforms for the Houghton Little League. It cost $1 to throw or drink a milkshake. The event raised a total of $158.
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