SDSU students were treated to a glamorous night of music and dancing on Oct. 29 when the Gender and Sexualities Alliance (GSA) hosted their annual drag show.
President of the GSA, Lindsey Tull, says that there haven’t been any issues in setting up this year’s production.
“This year has been really smooth, it’s been really nice,” Tull said.
When it comes to controversy surrounding the event, there hasn’t been much to report according to Tull. “As far as I know things have been nice.”
The main controversy was around two years ago when fears surrounding drag culture and events became mainstream, but it seems that the fear has tapered out.
“We haven’t really had much push back,” Tull said.
The event hosted a number of performers lip syncing to a variety of different songs, dancing on and off the stage and accepting tips from generous attendees.
“It is like lip syncing at a concert,” said Tull. It’s very high energy. Most of the performers do 2 songs or one really long song. We do have a mix of drag kings and queens.”
While the ticket count isn’t final yet, the GSA is expecting to see an attendance of around 200 people.
All kinds of people showed up to the event. One of those people was Renae Dayton, a biology major from Rosemount, Minnesota.
“I went last year and it was really fun,” Dayton said “It’s really good, I love it.”
Hannah Kari, a pre-pharmacy major from Pierre, SD, said that this was her first time going to a drag show.
“I just needed to get out of the house. I saw the pride flags and was like ‘that looks like a fun time,’” Kari said.
We tried asking the police officers standing on guard some questions, but they declined to comment.
