CHALLENGES WORLD RECORD

These days you cannot swing your handbag around without knocking out a drag queen or two, thanks to RuPaul. But how often would you get 80 Drag Performers on stage at the same time? The answer up to now is: Never! This is all about to change as Cape Town Pride will be attempting to make history by breaking the Guinness World Record for “Largest Drag Artist Stage Show”. This honour is currently held by Toronto Pride, in Canada, who in July 2016 managed to get 73 drag queens and kings lined up for a record-breaking performance. This distinction was previously held by GSWS Columbus, who organized a show of 55 drag artists at an Ohio club in 2014.

Can Cape Town muster more than 73 Queens to challenge the record? What with The Mother City being the Drag Capital of Africa, with drag pageants happening almost every weekend all over Cape Town, and with drag performances happening regularly in some of the most unlikely places (especially since lockdown), we are confident that we will have no problem rallying more than 73 drag performers together in one place at the same time to break the world record. After all, we’ve got them all, from Pageant Queens, Look Queens, Lip Sync Assassins, Comedy Queens, Drama Queens….and not forgetting our Drag Kings! You want them, we’ve got them! And they can be seen, at least 80 of them, in their fabulous glory, on stage at the Pride Mardi Gras on 4th March. We have a great performance lined up including appearances from Cape Town’s top drag artistes, up and coming queens and some of the Doyennes of Drag from yesteryear. This will be a Dragathon of note!

The Challenge will be happening at 4.00pm at the Cape Town Pride Mardi Gras, at the Green Point A Track on Saturday, 4th March 2023.

Tickets for the Pride Mardi Gras are available at Quicket: https://www.quicket.co.za/events/194935-cape-town-pridefestival-mardi-gras-2023/#/