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<\/p>\nBy Danica Ward
Staff Writer<\/p>\n
The College\u2019s oldest gender and sexuality alliance, Prism, hosted its annual drag show in the Brower Student Center on April 7.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Although this event is put on every spring semester, this year\u2019s event was even more special, as it is Prism\u2019s 50th anniversary as an organization. As 50 years ago was 1976, the student alliance chose a groovy disco theme for this year\u2019s celebration. BSC 100 was decorated with balloons, flower power streamers and fun graphics on the projector screen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s charity was the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice, a local Princeton institution that acts as a safe-space and activism hub for LGBTQIA+ individuals. Throughout the event, a money basket was paraded around for cash donations, while a Venmo code was shown on screen so attendees could donate.<\/p>\n
Returning queens Lady Celestina, Mona Little and Angelique emceed and entertained the crowd, who were set up around a platformed stage with a catwalk. The queens interacted with the audience, performed their own numbers and helped gather monetary donations for the charity.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In addition to the professional drag queens present at the show, there were also many student performers who dressed in their own drag personas and strutted their stuff. The two-hour event was filled with comedy, fashion, music and an overall appreciation and pride for the art form that is drag.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Senior biology major, Sarah Neil, helped open the show, as the second student performer of the night. Going by the name Romeo, Neil has performed at every drag show since their freshman year, giving them an opportunity to showcase their drag king persona.<\/p>\n
When talking about the impacts and importance of Prism\u2019s event, Neil said, \u201cIt really does mean a lot to me in that it has provided me a space, and I think a lot of other students a space where you can really express yourself in a way that only drag allows you to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Along with the org\u2019s events being accessible to college students of all grades, not just those 21+, it allows all demographics to experiment and step into their own identities.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cArt is queer,\u201d Neil stated. \u201cThe best way to understand a group of people’s perspective is to see the art that they create, because it is the truest expression of themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Lady Celestina entertains the crowd. (Photo courtesy of Nick DeCesare)<\/p>\n
Freshman clinical mental health counseling major and Prism community engagement chair, Ollie Rodriguez, mused about their involvement in the event, which included helping set up and take down the decorations as well as escorting the queens around campus.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They also took the time to describe what the show meant to them. \u201cArtistic expression is so important because LGBTQ+ people are often overshadowed and told they are too much,\u201d Rodriguez said. \u201cThe safe space that art creates for queer people is vital to both making them feel seen and increasing acceptance in our society.\u201d<\/p>\n
As this month is \u201cGaypril,\u201d Rodriguez stated that there\u2019s many more events from Prism to come over the course of the month. On April 16, there is a film screening of \u201cStrange World,\u201d a landmark movie containing a biracial and gay protagonist. On April 24, Prism will also be holding \u201cBig Gay Wedding,\u201d which they describe as \u201ca fake wedding officiated by a drag queen and students are welcome to marry whoever they want!\u201d The club will also be traveling to the New Jersey Queer and Trans Market on April 26.\u00a0\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Danica WardStaff Writer The College\u2019s oldest gender and sexuality alliance, Prism, hosted its annual drag show in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-200537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}