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Zach Gould
Daily Lobo

Shay Basey, left, and Samantha Orr apply lip gloss during a free Mary Kay facial in the SUB on Thursday. Basey and Orr will dress as kings to compete in UNM’s first annual drag show and queer prom on Saturday in the SUB.

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UNM to host drag show and queer prom

Last updated: 11/19/09 10:58pm

This Saturday, UNM will make the queer community prouder.

The University is hosting its first annual drag show and prom this weekend, organized by the Queer Straight Alliance.

QSA event organizer Adam Quintero said campus drag shows aren’t uncommon at other schools around the country.

“We went to D.C. for the National Equality March, and we went to some student group workshops,” he said. “A guy from (the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was saying how MIT would give them $50,000 a year to do their drag show, because they had to pay for the ballroom and everything, but we got ours free.”

Quintero said QSA wanted to do a prom this year, and then the idea for a drag show followed, with support from Student Special Events.

“It just became this big event that catapulted into what we’re doing on Saturday,” he said. “We have ballrooms A, B and C rented out and we’ve been sending e-mails and promoting this. So the first two hours are a drag show competition with many performances. The second two hours are going to be prom with the theme of ‘Hollywood Red Carpet.’”

QSA held two auditions earlier this month for the drag show court and narrowed it down to three kings and three queens. After the competition, the judges will pick a king and queen. The judges include Quintero, Greek Mythology Professor Monica Cyrino, ASUNM President Monika Roberts, Albuquerque Pride Executive Board Vice President Jesse Lopez and Miss New Mexico Pride 2009 Sabryna Williams.

“The winners will start out our prom and dance the first dance together,” Quintero said. “I think this is the biggest event that we’ve ever done.”

Executive Director of Student Special Events, Paul Spella, said SSE was excited to collaborate on the event.

“We’ve worked with QSA on a couple of events for the past three or four years,” Spella said. “But it’s nice to see that they’re really growing and that they have more members and more and more support.”

Spella said QSA wanted to make sure the drag participants would feel safe and comfortable at the event.

“We will have security for the event, but as far as additional security, I don’t think we’re doing anything too crazy,” he said. “We are aware (of possible danger), and a woman who is actually helping us organize everything, she is a director of a lot of local drag shows. She did express some concern about being able to park close to the building for the performers.”

QSA chairwoman Brandy Rodke said she is pleased with the amount of acceptance she has seen on campus in regard to the drag show.

“A lot of the faculty members and students were excited about it,” she said. “It’s definitely something new to this campus so we did get some turndowns for people not accepting the fliers, or they made strange faces. But we’re still welcoming all those who aren’t comfortable or used to it.”

Rodke said this Saturday would be a good way to introduce people into drag show culture.

“It might be kind of shocking at first because normally you don’t see a guy or girl in drag, and having that confusion of sexuality or sexual orientation (can be confusing),” she said. “To get that sort of shaken up can be kind of shocking at first. It’s a lot of fun though. Regardless of sexual orientation it’s just really entertaining.”

*QSA Drag Show and Prom
SUB Ballroom
Saturday
7 p.m.
Free *

Published November 19, 2009 in News

43 comments



slowhike

November 20, 2009 at 6:29 AM
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No surprise here. This is obviously something that UNM can excel in. Challenging competitive and moralistic goals like football, university news-paper productions, graduation rates, patriotism, support for law enforcement, ethics and competent top leadership continue to baffle the small quaint New Mexico campus.

However, UNM’s success in the less sophisticated and non-productive arenas such as sub-culture activity, lawlessness, churning out immigration lawyers, support for any and all possible sexual perversions (even at the professor level)and loser sports programs is not to challenged or topped by any University across the country. Way to go UNM!


Jay Schaeffer

November 20, 2009 at 9:56 AM
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“Moralistic goals like football“


Disease infested winnie roast!

November 20, 2009 at 10:27 AM
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UNM promotes meat markets too?

A group of people all together and only together due to who they have sex with?

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I can’t help but think how many partners will match up that night for a winnie roast later that night!


Manly Man

November 20, 2009 at 10:58 AM
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Disease infested,
Sure UNM promotes meat markets. They are generally of the heterosexual variety: think prom, think fraternities and sororities. These are promoted by the university and are simply forums for people to advertise their wares. If the university does it for heterosexuals, why not for homosexuals as well?


thomas

November 20, 2009 at 11:26 AM
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Slowhike, nobody is chaining your ass to this university. You and the other over opinionated individuals that has nothing but criticism, and no solutions, except those that eliminate or suppress liberty and freedom of others. Is it even possible for you to offer an opinion with the degradation of another person for their opinion? It would appear that the rumors are correct. There is an entire sub-culture that exists whose total social experience is thru the World Wide Web.
I know the rebuttal, why are you here then? Maybe I’m one of the new world order of www.com


Trolls suck

November 20, 2009 at 1:43 PM
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It would be great if the Daily Lobo could somehow monitor these threads for spam.

We have at least 3 opinion pieces by well-known columnists posted in the above thread, that some jerk(s) just copied and pasted. S/he did not even try to mask the author’s names.

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The articles aren’t even related to the topic. THis is not only annoying and a waste of bandwith, but they probably are also violations of copyright law.

You suck troll, whoever you are. get lost!


Lucy Goosey

November 20, 2009 at 2:28 PM
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Don’t use “suck” in a queer article. There will be enough sucking tomorrow! LITERALLY!


Chadwick Johnstone

November 20, 2009 at 5:06 PM
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I’d steer clear of any of the SUB’s restrooms Saturday night…I’m sure you might walk in on something you’d rather not see. I can imagine them petitioning that it is their “right” to turn any place on campus into their personal sex hotel and our school will allow it as we value diversity..


slowhike

November 20, 2009 at 8:01 PM
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I support transgender, homosexual and lesbian freedom to walk the streets unfettered and unbothered. I don’t support my university hosting their programs. It’s also lucicrous to compare conventional programs like proms and other functions to any “campus gay activity”. Don’t be silly.

The solution would be not to have it on campus, pretty simple really.

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Cut and paste activity should not be tolerated, but don’t know how one would delete it automatically.

The politics of sex and sexual preference has basically become a library of sexual perversion manuals. Some may dismiss today’s liberal all inclusive sexism as mildly amusing but that would be a mistake. Radical sexual freedom is one of the most destructive and fanatical movements to come down to us via the Democratic “anything goes” rhetoric.

These groups would have everyone believe that the “oppressors, the source of all evil, are the heterosexual men and women (mostly white males). Although the sexual freedom movement has hitched it’s wagon to the coattails of the left. By now I think they deserve their own place in the halls of intellectual barbarism and denial.


slowhike

November 20, 2009 at 8:11 PM
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Many of you suppose that the “anything goes sexual freedom movement” is an continuation or continuation of the leftist liberal movement. It is not. Instead this movement is merely the froth of extremism attached to an otherwise sensible movement. There is no real connection to political liberalism; in this case the extremist ARE the movement.

The academic support for radical multi-gender perspectives attacks not only men, but the institution of the family, and is hostile to traditional religion as well. It demands equality and engages in serious misrepresentation of facts. Worst of all, it inflicts great damage on the person’s it supports in a reckless self-serving attempt to remake human beings and create a world that never existed in the first place. This is a sad lot.


Summerspeaker

November 20, 2009 at 11:04 PM
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Wow, such hostilely. Makes me want to turn out to the event after all. While you roughly describe my position, slowhike, most of QSA and company aren’t so radical. The mainstream gay movement doesn’t want attack the institution of the family, only gain a place in it. Unfortunately, it does little to undermine the gender distinction or threaten patriarchy. I wish it were otherwise.


Let me see your PeeWee

November 21, 2009 at 7:23 AM
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Urinals will be busy tonight with these jotos looking to sneek a peek and I wouldn’t doubt that they just take it out and model it in the bathroom too!

Who was that Congressmen that was caught making sexual moves in the bathroom? Well, tonight the bathrooms will be full of winks, smirks, smiles, raising eyebrows, etc…!

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Why does getting poked in the ass make their voice change? It gets higher and has a girlish accent.


Bree

November 21, 2009 at 6:13 PM
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I WOULD BE AWARE OF THE BATHROOMS IF I WERE YOU.


slowhike

November 22, 2009 at 7:38 AM
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No surprise here. This is obviously something that UNM can excel in. Challenging competitive and productive goals like football, university news-paper productions, graduation rates, patriotism, support for law enforcement, ethics and competent top leadership continue to baffle the small quaint New Mexico campus.

However, UNM’s success in the less sophisticated and non-productive arenas such as sub-culture activity, lawlessness, churning out immigration lawyers, support for any and all possible sexual perversions (even at the professor level)and loser sports programs is not to challenged or topped by any University across the country. Way to go UNM! UNM’s support this kind of activity leaves rooom for pessimism. Either no one is minding the farm, or top administration has confused “non discrimination” with “support”. While this may appear to be a fine line, it is not. It indicates that UNM is less interested in progress and leadership than in political correctness. The gay rights and transgender movement is an attack on the existing order and their hostility will not be placated even by the changes they demand. This is clearly an example of how appeasement only leads to further attacks and demands.


sam

November 22, 2009 at 10:25 AM
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hmmm, just like I said before…

This is the culture, WHITE folks want to teach my kids and grandkids…

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what has this country come to…

:P


Summerspeaker

November 22, 2009 at 10:42 AM
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White folks, like other groups, stand divided about queer culture.


I'm not a Virgin anymore!

November 22, 2009 at 12:14 PM
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Thanks UNM for threesome! Last night’s show was great but what happened after the show was really great! Alittle sore, can’t sit but I can’t stop from smiling.


slowhike

November 22, 2009 at 12:37 PM
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Queer culture is definitely a “less-than” subculture. Straight People who support anything but non-discrimination issues concerning the gay community do so because they lack insight into the sociology and psychology of the issue.


Carlton Banks

November 22, 2009 at 3:17 PM
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Saturday night at the SUB was a case of right place, wrong time for me. As I entered the men’s restroom I could instantly feel a strange vibe given off as multiple men were just standing around the stalls talking and laughing. As I walked by to use a stall, most of the men halted their conversations to eye me up and down then whisper to their friend. I pushed open the handicap stall only to see it was occupied by at least three men, all of which without their pants yet none were making use of the toilet…Naturally I shuttered and went to the next stall to do my business. I’m normally a shy restroom user which wasn’t aided by the fact that two men were peeking in on me through the gaps in the doors. I decided to try to hold it and go to the Frontier to relieve myself; however as I tried to open the stall door, these two men began to hold the door and chuckle. I pushed my way through to feel what seemed like every part of me being groped. After washing my hands I noticed my shoe was untied. Seeing the potential hazard, I bent down to tie it. As soon as this occurred I noticed the whole restroom went silent- then a stampede as they held me in place and sodomized me repeatedly. I do not know how long this occurred or how many men took part in the act but it seemed to happen in a blur of a second leaving me heavily bruised and bleeding. My cell phone was broken in the ruckus as it was in my back pocket. While I am disgusted by the rabid nature of the event and the potential diseases I may now carry, I do admire the speed and efficiency of these men in their act of sodomy. Needless to say I will avoiding the SUB during future QSA events.


Kevin Scales

November 22, 2009 at 3:39 PM
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I took heed of the warnings and spent Saturday night holed up in a bunker at an undisclosed location in western Iceland waiting for the sky to fall. Lo and behold, however, one can imagine my amazement when morning came and I looked out to see that the sky had not fallen and that hell had not frozen over. Now who’s going to reimburse me for my travel costs?


slowhike

November 23, 2009 at 6:20 AM
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It appears as if the Daily Lobo staff were doing more than just “covering” and taking photos at the Saturday night Queer Dance.


Christopher

November 23, 2009 at 2:07 PM
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Wow.. Just wow!

It is absolutely astonishing to see such blind hatred coming from individuals who supposedly are receiving some semblance of higher education. I am an officer in QSA, and while it may not be as important a position as some of the others, I fully support the organization, if for nothing else their tolerance. To see the constant ridicule and obvious pessimism focused on the gay community is horrific. Anyone who even remotely thinks that being gay is a choice, or something we do because we are ‘perverted’, or some other childish claim, has no place to talk because you do NOT know!!

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Ever since i realized (NOT chose) that I was homosexual, I knew I would have to face more problems than others. I never expected to face such blatant prejudice in my adult years, not from a group of people claiming to be educated. QSA was not holding this event to hook up or anything else of a sexual nature, but instead it was to bring awareness to a largely unknown culture of people in a fun setting. I have plenty of straight friends who went to simply have a good time, as did many of my bi and homosexual friends.

It is outrageous to see comments like “The gay rights and transgender movement is an attack on the existing order and their hostility will not be placated even by the changes they demand.” First of all, Slowhike is an idiot who obviously lacks the mental capacity to understand his own arguments. Second, the mere recognition and tolerance of a group of people (LGBTQ) is in no way an attack on anything. Homosexuals are not trying to ruin families or break down social structures, but rather change minds and gain acceptance.

I challenge anyone to deal with such idiotic intolerance on a daily level, and see how much respect is left for greater society. I, as well as many others I know, have achieved success here at UNM, all without the help and support of our peers, and I can only look forward to the day when ignorance is stifled and tolerance prevails.

Good job QSA!


Summerspeaker

November 23, 2009 at 2:52 PM
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What about those of us who choose to be queer, Christopher? You can’t speak for everyone who takes on that identity. We’re a diverse bunch. Personally, I dislike the appeal-to-inevitability approach for gaining acceptance. It implies there’s something wrong with being queer. I assert just the opposite.

Now, I share your outrage with the absurd and insulting comments. The internet is a strange place. I’ve yet to encounter this sort of thing in person in Albuquerque.


Christopher

November 23, 2009 at 3:10 PM
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There will always be those who choose to live a certain lifestyle, and that gives no less credibility to the lack of ‘preference’ many of us have. Because someone chooses to be queer gives them no less right as those who are born this way.

There is of course nothing wrong with being queer, as there is nothing wrong with being straight. The two are merely part of who we are as people, and we should not be condemned for either.

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I have faced this type of bigotry in person here in Albuquerque, and I can tell you the type of person committing this atrocious bullying is always the same: ill-informed, overly-dramatized, and ignorant as hell. It cuts a lot deeper when you are being told to your face how wrong you are, rather than reading it from internet prowlers too afraid to reveal their true identities.


Lipstick Lesbo

November 23, 2009 at 3:10 PM
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I would LOVE to stick my ten inch dildo in you fucking breeders asses and rape the shit out of you with NO LUBE! Were taking over the world get used to it bitches!!!

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