UC Davis Students Show Their Pride in Drag Show, Frat Boys to Perform

This week UC Davis will hold its centennial celebration, and its LGBT students will represent via an LGBT Pride Week celebration, which will include a drag show and pumpkin carving, the closest many Davis students will come to see an Amanda Lepore Halloween pageant. The fraternity performing the show, Delta Lambda Phi, has stated that its objective in the show is to disprove effeminate gay man stereotypes, though I’m not sure that drag is the best vehicle for this admirable objective.

The California Aggie reports:

This year's Pride Week is themed 100 Years of Pride and Prejudice - a nod to the university's centennial - and will focus on the past, present and future of the LGBT community here at UC Davis.

 

"This year's theme, 100 Years of Pride and Prejudice … is a reminder that LGBT people have always been around and that we continue to experience both pride within our community but also prejudice from the broader community," said Sheri Atkinson, director for the LGBTRC. "We are tying in the theme with many of our programs by looking at the histories of organizations, community, activism and education."

 

Events start today with Kickoff Visibility Day on the Quad - where students can hang out, eat lunch and carve pumpkins. The week will come to a close on Friday with "Davis is Burning," an annual drag show put on by the brothers of Delta Lambda Phi, a fraternity for gay, bisexual and progressive men…

 

Delta Lambda Phi will be featured on Tuesday. The fraternity's President Jonathan Chua said he is looking forward to raising awareness about the fraternity and members of the LGBT community.

 

"Delta Lambda Phi as a organization is there to voice our opinion on these issues as well as answer questions related to our fraternity," Chua said in an e-mail interview. "By attending the luncheon/discussion time, DLP hopes to abolish preconceived notions about gay fraternities as well as change the views about the gay community all being high pitch speaking, 'queer eye' for the straight guy not athletic individuals."

For more information on Pride Week, log on to lgbtrc.ucdavis.edu.