By Kim Scroggins

Last Wednesday night, the PRIDE group sponsored the Spring Drag Ball where queens returned to put on a show for students and where some of the members of Student Government Association, Latin American Students Organization, and other CCSU groups donned their heels for the cat walk for this fundraiser.

“The idea to raise money ahead of time to see campus leaders in drag came from a couple members,” said Melissa Cordner, the President of PRIDE, “the event was spearheaded by Bryce McKinzie, our treasurer last semester.”

The Polo Club’s Divine Spice emceed the ball, which took place in Semesters. As part of the show, drag queens came and “lip-synched for their lives” on stage covering anything from Lady Gaga to Michael Bublé. It was something anyone who is familiar with RuPaul and her Drag Race could appreciate.

Among those to participate in the drag transformation were the current SGA President Andrew Froning, SGA Presidential candidate Alex Rodriguez, VP Candidate Chris Kyle, and the highly anticipated Scott Hazan, Student Activities Leadership Development Director – who strutted his stuff in a little black sequined dress and knee-high boots.

“Thanks to the collaboration of all of these people, we raised just under $800 dollars for True Colors, the nonprofit organization that hosts the biggest GLBT youth conference in the nation, which is usually held right here at CCSU,” Cordner said.

“The Spring Ball was first made into a fundraiser by our VP last year, and the idea took off so we made it even bigger this year,” she explained.

PRIDE hosts the drag ball every semester and the last was the Masquerade Ball on Halloween.