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--combination of dominance and power...I have been coming to all of them since that first one and I love them."
THE STUDENT VOICE SINCE 1904
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.116 ISSUE 123
MONDAY, APRIL 3, 2006
PRIDE WEEK
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Drag queen "Twat La Rouge" of Kansas City entertains an audience in front of the Kansas Union Friday. The drag show was part of a fundraiser for Queens and Allies
Six drag queens entertain crowd
BY DEJUAN ATWAY
datway@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
For one hour on Friday, the Kansas Union became a stage when Queens and Allies presented the annual Brown Bag Drag Show.
"Everyone here always looks forward to it and it's important for members of the Queer and Allies community to support one another." Pror said.
The show has been one of the most popular events during Pride Week for the last 13 years, said Jonathan Pryor, Columbus junior and officer in Queers and Allies. A large contingent of students soaked up both the sun and the six entertainers dressed up in a number of different outfits.
The performers strutted around the stage lip-synching, giving tame strip teases and dancing while interacting with the audience. Some members of the audience offered money to the entertainers during their performance.
The entertainers impersonated a number of celebrities, including Ella Fitzgerald and Judy Garland, while others paraded around to several current Top 40 songs.
Emily Herrman, Garden City sopho-
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The drag shows display a
Emily Herman Garden City sophomore
more, said that she had attended a drag show on her first visit to the University of Kansas during a past Pride Week. The drag show influenced her to make the decision to become an ally in the Queers and Allies organization.
"The drag shows display a combination of dominance and power," Herrman said. "I have been coming to all of them since that first one and I love them."
Representatives from Queers and Allies accepted donations for their organization and gave "Fine by Me" T-shirts to people who pledged $10 or more at the end of the performance.
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Drag queen "Choccolota" of Kansas City performs a number Friday in the Queens and Allies drag show fundraiser. Guest performers from Kansas City and students performed in the show.
Patient shows a different face of HIV
SPEAKER
BY ANNE WELTMER
aweltmer@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
After losing her father to an alcohol-related shooting accident, losing her brother to an alcohol-related murder and losing her virginity to a drunken man when she was passed out, Lisa Tiger found out she had contracted HIV.
She has been infected with HIV for the past 18 years, but you wouldn't know it from looking at her tall frame, physically fit body, pretty face and long, black hair. That was exactly her point, as she said she used to think to herself, "Just don't have sex with the
Native American woman from Muskogee, Okla., was living proof that HIV cannot be seen, or even felt, until it develops into the late stages of AIDS.
Friday, she stood in front a group of college students at Haskell Indian Nations University, boasting that she was "just as healthy" as any of them. Tiger, a
skinny, sick-looking people," and she wouldn't get HIV.
She said her HIV infection has given her a new attitude about life, and she tours all over the country to raise
Lisa Tiger
awareness and hopes to prevent the spread of the disease.
High school years
Her father was a famous artist, able to make a living when most Native American artists couldn't. After he accidentally shot himself in the head under the influence of alcohol when she was young, her mother started an art business to keep his work known.
In high school, she was active in ballet, tap dancing and was an arm-wrestling champion. She also successfully graduated high school a virgin because of a bet she made with a friend. After high school, she began drinking alcohol and partying because the legal drinking
age was 18. She lost her virginity when a drunken man had sex with her when she was passed out at a party. She then decided to stop drinking.
"That was the loneliest year of my life," she said about her sobriety. She said she felt she had lost her identity when she stopped drinking, and she wished she had known about Alcoholics Anonymous at the time.
After she was sober she worked for her mother's company, making T-shirts with her father's paintings on them, and she spent the rest of her time doing aerobics. The only thing left that she wanted in her life was a relationship.
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FOOTBALL
Mangino releases player Saturday
BY MIKE MOSTAFFA
mmostaffa@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Bruce Ringwood appeared in Douglas County District Court in Lawrence on Friday on a felony charge of aggravated battery. The charges stem from a fight with his roommate earlier this month.
After his court appearance, Ringwood. Blue Springs, Mo., sophomore, said he was still on the KU football team; however, KU football coach Mark Mangino announced Saturday that Ringwood is no longer a member of the KU football team.
"I've informed him that it's in his best interest and ours for him to look for another opportunity." Bruce Ringwood
Mangino said. "We assisting him right now, trying to help him with Division II opportunities."
Last month's incident is not the first time the former football player has been arrested. Ringwood was charged with assault after a fight at a Kenny Chesney concert in Kansas City, Mo., that injured a Shawnee woman.
The Lawrence Police Department has not released the roommate's name, but according to the police report the victim suffered severe lacerations and other minor injuries. The police report did not indicate the use of any weapon.
Drew Davidson contributed to this article.
PROFILE
Glaser said that the performance was "awful," and consuming too much beer while forgetting her punch lines did not help the situation. A young lady sitting in the front row, her arms crossed with an expression of disgust on her face, looked right at Glaser and loudly said, "She's not funny!"
Trapped underneath the hot lights of the stage in a dark and dreary Topeka establishment called the Double Deuce, Nikki Glaser performed her stand-up comedy for the first time in an actual comedy club. The crowd sat in total silence and patiently waited for the young comic to stumble across something funny.
Nikki Glaser
BY DEJUAN ATWAY
datway@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
It was one of the worst co-
It was one of the worst medic experiences for Glaser, St. Louis senior. She said she remembered running out of the club and immediately reaching for her cell phone to seek advice from her parents about her chosen career.
Amateur comic fights for dream
"I usually end up calling my parents or friends, telling them that the set was so awesome, or I end up asking them what the hell am I doing with my life," Glaser said. "Comedy is really bipolar."
Glaser has been performing comedy at open mic and amateur nights throughout Kansas and Missouri for the last four years. She started training in St. Louis by attending classes to help her improve her comedy routine. She performs one to seven times a week.
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