Vol. 128, No. 115 Monday, April 8, 2019
NEWS
OPINION
SPORTS
University celebrates 10 years of solar
Pros and cons of each ASCSU presidential campaign
CSU Softball breaks winning streak
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A member of the group The Old Time Boyz performs to “Chim Chim Cher-ee” during the spring drag show in the Lory Student Center April 7. PHOTO BY ASHLEY POTTS COLLEGIAN
‘Drag! The Musical!’ mixes drag, Broadway, self-expression By Julia Trowbridge @chapin_jules
The largest university drag show in northern Colorado for over 10 years returned this Sunday with a packed ballroom. This semester’s show was titled “Drag! The Musical!” and hosted by PRISM, a student organization that aims to support and raise awareness of LGBTQ issues. The show had 26 performances, including some from
Colorado State University students, from co-hosts Jessica L’Whor and Evelyn Evermoore and from Shea Couleé from season nine of Ru Paul’s Drag Race. “It helps to have a themed show each semester and it also really helps to have performers who don’t necessarily give a performance that aligns with the theme,” said Alex Salazar, a senior human development and family studies major who performed in the drag show as Queenie. “It allows for a variety
of different performances and, ultimately, it creates a bigger fanbase.” Some of the CSU students that participated in the show included A Blast from your Angsty Past performing to Panic! at the Disco’s “I Write Sins Not Tragedies,” Trina Tucket with Wicked’s “Defying Gravity” and Frankie Venus performing a tribute to Freddy Mercury. Lola Gag, the head director and producer of the show, used her performance to come out as bisexual.
Throughout the 26 performances, co-hosts L’Whor and Evermoore showed off multiple outfits, encouraged people to vote in local elections and did a Q&A with the audience, discussing topics like being economical with makeup, outreach and relationship advice. One topic discussed in the Q&A was about the idea of identifying as queer, especially with the term “queer” historically being used as a slur against the LGBTQ community.
“I identify as queer, and identifying as queer really helped me find a place in the community,” Evermoore said. “It was a struggle for me (coming out) because of a lot of invisibility that people feel, and with my gender presentation, queer was just a term that could let me be who I was and not really put too many questions to it. So queer makes me feel better.”
see DRAG SHOW on page 12 >>