In a room full of makeup, dresses, and high heels, Ball State University students and friends make a transformation – they enter a dressing room as one gender and leave appearing as another. They all have different reasons for doing it, but they are all participating in drag.
A drag show is when a group of drag queens or kings transform their appearance to represent another gender and typically, their drag persona. On October 24, 2015 Ball State’s LGBTQ+ organization, Spectrum, held a drag show titled “Drag Show in Wonderland.”
Drag Name: Diana Thirst
Real name: Jason Thomason
“Drag kind of happened upon me, really.
If you ask my mom, it goes way back. I always had an interest in women’s
clothing and the way they present themselves. It started at seventh
grade with just putting makeup on myself and it just became more and
more. Eventually around my freshman year Diana became a concept and just
last year she became a full fledged person. People think that this is
just something for fun and that it doesn’t really hold any weight. For a
lot of us it’s either a business or an extension of our personality. We
really don’t want to be reduced to a sex object.”
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