May 17, 2004, Web Posted at 11:12 PDT

Drag Queens Teach Students, Erik

"Kylie" performs for the class
Kylie on stage for Introduction to Sociology

-- SANTA BARBARA, California

ENN reporters were on hand as three professional drag queens from Key West, Florida came to the University of California, Santa Barbara to perform for the Introduction to Sociology class.

"I bet this is gonna suck," Erik was overheard saying before the lecture began.  "I bet they won't go all out, and it'll be too politically correct to be like a real drag show."

Moments later, a packed lecture hall with around one thousand students erupted in screams and applause as one of the drag queens stripped completely naked.

"AHHHHH!" one student was overheard saying, as Erik announced: "Well, I was wrong.  They definitely didn't keep it PC."

Seconds later, the professor of the class took the stage with the naked performer and touched his penis.

Erik was seen to swoon and nearly fall over, reflecting on how his lesbian professor was touching the penis of a man dressed as a woman in front of more than a thousand students.

"We learned a lot," one fraternity member told an ENN reporter at the scene.  "Dudes can be HOT!  WOO!"

Others remarked on how the drag queens' performance was an example of protest that drew attention to the fluid nature of gender and sexuality, making a statement that categories like "straight" and "gay" are arbitrary and socially constructed.  But ENN reporters were uninterested.

Stay with ENN as we watch Erik finish up his first year as a teaching assistant and graduate student at the University of California.

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All photographs in this story are courtesy the UCSB Daily Nexus newspaper.

 

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