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Admission Pricing:

$12.00 General
$10.00 Students/Military
You must be 18 or older to attend

There will be a Dakota Divas in Drag Show on April 11, 2009 at the Doublewood Inn Heritage Ballroom. Doors will open at 7:30pm and the show will start at 8:30pm. There will be a full bar, serving up all your favorite drinks. After the show there will be a dance.

Did you even know that there were Drag Shows in the state of North Dakota? Dakota OutRight has the biggest and best show in the region with each show averaging over 600 people. The crowd is very friendly and is made up of straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered people. We welcome you and your friends to join in on some good fun.

What is a Drag Show?

A drag show is an entertainment consisting of a variety of songs, monologues or skits featuring either single performers or groups of performers in drag meant to entertain an audience. They range from amateur performances at small bars to elaborately staged theatrical presentations. Many drag shows feature performers singing or lip-synching to songs while performing a pre-planned pantomime, or dancing. The performers often don elaborate costumes and makeup, and sometimes dress to imitate various famous female singers or personalities. And some events are centered around drag, such as Southern Decadence where the majority of festivites are led by the Grand Marshals, who are traditionally drag queens.

A drag queen is a person, usually a man, who dresses (or “drags”) in female clothes and make-up for special occasions and usually because they are performing and entertaining as a hostess, stage artist or at an event. This is in contrast to those who cross-dress for reasons other than as a source of entertainment for others or transgender people who are not necessarily drag queens or cross-dressers but sometimes fit into those labels.

There are many kinds of drag artists and they vary greatly from professionals who have starred in movies to people who just try it once. Drag queens also vary by class and culture and can vary even within the same city. Although many assume all drag queens are gay men or transgender, there are drag artists of all genders and sexualities who do drag for various reasons. Generally, drag queens dress in a female gender role, often exaggerating certain characteristics for comic, dramatic or satirical effect. Other drag performers include drag kings, who are women who perform in male roles, faux queens, who are women who dress in an exaggerated style to emulate drag queens and faux kings, who are men who dress to impersonate drag kings.

“Drag Queen.” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 30 Oct 2008, 20:10 UTC. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 10 Aug. 2004. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_queen>.

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