Drag Show ranks among Grinnell College’s most prominent traditions, occupying a place next to time-honored customs such as 10/10, TitHead and Relays. But when did students host the first Drag Show on campus? To answer this, I spoke with two alumni-turned-professors, Fredo Rivera `06, art history, and Sarah Purcell `92, history, as well as Sarah.
A spaceship piloted by some gay glittery aliens sends down a beam to pluck up a cowboy who is wearing six-inch-heeled, bright pink spurred boots from everything they know. This is the energy that came from the extraterrestrial-Western experience, also known as the Grinnell College Drag Show of the spring 2023 semester, put.