NUNET CLITANDRE
Special to The Leader
On April 14, Pride Alliance will be hosting its annual spring drag show. The theme this semester is “Decades in Drag.”
Rochester-born drag king Notorious LEZ will be the host for this semester’s show. The show will feature student drag queens and kings from Fredonia.
English adolescence education major Victor Diaz, president of Pride Alliance, commented on this year’s theme, saying that he thinks it “will definitely be more on the corny side but in the best of ways. I think performers will try to really capture a certain decade so it’ll force it to be exaggerated a bit.”
According to Diaz, this year’s show is more laid back than previous ones because there is no competition.
“We can all just have a good time and enjoy watching and supporting each other,” he said.
Danielle Barnes, a freshman criminal justice major, said that she’s absolutely stoked for the show.
“I think drag has become extremely mainstream, but in the best way possible,” she said. She stated that her favorite drag queens include the winner of the fifth season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” Jinkx Monsoon (though she believes Alaska should have won), BenDeLaCreme and the incomparable Lady Bunny.
Tickets are $3 for students and $5 for general public. One dollar from every ticket sold will go towards the Breaking Binaries fund, a scholarship for trans, non-binary and gender nonconforming students, in order to help alleviate the expenses of some gender-affirming procedures such as name-changes and gender reassignment.