Photo by: Stephanie Hall

CDB Performance Day took place Friday evening on the Elm Quad. It included performances from most of the cultural diversity clubs on campus.

“I think seeing several different cultures work together to put on a show like that is great for students to see,” CDB Student Director Sierra Vessels said. “It shows that we can all work together successfully.”

The event opened with a crowd of dancers in colorful dresses spinning around on stage to the sound of trumpets, courtesy of the Latino Student Alliance. Next, with the Ho’olokahi Polynesian Club, was local band Poke Squid, who covered a few popular songs for the crowd. The International Student Alliance gave a Colombian dance performance, and BSA performed next with two different rappers and a surprise dancer.

Lastly, GSA put on a Drag Show. Four drag queens and three drag kings competed for a chance to be on the Gay Pride Float for the Colorado West Pride Fest May 16-19. They each had a chance to lip sync to a song of their choice before three judges. During the second performance, from Alexander, a drag king with an electric guitar, an audience member wandered up to the stage and offered a dollar bill. Alexander accepted the bill by biting it and pulling it away. The moment caused the crowd to roar, and audience members tipped drag performers throughout the rest of the show.

The show’s two closers, Ryan Woody, AKA The Doctor, and Donovan Haynie, AKA Donatella My Secrets, won the crowns, with Ruben Hammer, AKA Candy Sugar and Christy Morris, AKA Alexander Lucieus, as the runners-up.

“This was the first drag show I ever participated in, and I didn’t think I would do that that well,” Woody said. “Winning was quite fantastic. It was one of the first things I had ever won.

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