4 Special Section
Clackamas Pri|j
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Drag pageant brings glamour
Yesterday’s drag pag
eant, held to bring diver
sity and awareness to
the campus, brought a
variety of high-spirited
participants. (Top left)
Fiona La Fauna, runner
up for the Ms. Clackamas
title, strikes a pose on
stage. (Top right) Kamel
Toelotof gets down with
"her” bad self. (Middle)
English Instructor James
Bryant-Trerise, chosen
by student vote to per-
fom, dresses for success.
(Bottom) the contest’s
judges, (left to right)
Chastity
Frustration,
Paris
and
Alexandra
Terrika St. James, offer
light-hearted comments
following each of the per
formances.
Eight compete in
Rainbow Clubs first
ever drag contest
Kyle Steele
I The Clackamas Print
photos by Jeff Sorensen Clackamas Print
Editor’s note: This story con
tains language some may find
offensive.
The Rainbow Club put on the
first ever Mr. and Ms. Clackamas
Community College Drag Pageant
in the Bill Brod Community
Center yesterday with the help
of professional drag bar Embers
Avenue. Eight amateur “men” and
“women” bravely took the stage
to a packed crowd and showed
Clackamas what they were made
of.
“I’m very, very impressed with
all the students that came out here,”
said the host of the show, “Kamel
Toelotof,” a.k.a Daniel Roa. “So
many people were against it when
we first started putting up posters.
People were ripping them down
and defacing them and we keep
putting them up and up, and now
there are too many.”
The show was put on to bring
awareness to individuals ripping
down Rainbow Club posters
around the campus. They hoped
that the show would make the
student body understand that there
are many different groups that
people need to be aware of.
“I’m glad [they] did this, it’s
a big ‘fuck you’ to the establish
ment,” said Alexandra Paris, one
of the show’s judges, about the
poster being ripped down. Paris
has had to deal with censoring on
her cable public access show on
channel 22.
Professional drag queens
Chastity Frustration and Terrika
St. James joined Paris as judges.
They commented on the amateurs
and shot jokes back and forth
about everything from the contes
tants to drag queen life. The judges
all perform at Embers Avenue bar,
and also performed at the pageant
to start off the show.
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the right to be a performer du|
the pageant.
“For three minutes and 30
onds I was the dancing qu
said Starlet, another student |
former, when asked about hoi
formance on stage.
First place won a trip t
Resort at Seaside. The runn
won a gift certificate to H
restaurant and a prism rewar
crowd wasn’t left out, be<!
the Rainbow Club passed ou
chains and buttons after the s
was over.
“It was a lot
of fun. I love see
ing people trying it
out,” said Chastity, a
drag queen with 12
years of experience
under her skirt, and
the Saturday host of
Embers Avenue.
The
“ladies’”
competition
was
between five com
petitors, with Lady
Fly taking first place
prize and Floria La
Fauna taking run
ner-up. Ray/Rae took
file first place in the
“men’s” competition.
James Bryant-
Trerise took the
stage in his own
show, dancing to
Beethoven’s Fifth.
Bryant-Trerise was
selected through a
fundraising competi
tion in which he won
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