Media.www.MaineCampus.com – By Kegan Zema, Staff Writer
Lady Gaga is blasting from the speakers as a 6-foot-10-inch, 300-pound woman wearing a sequined dress struts in front of a gigantic crowd lip synching, “Puh-puh-puh-poker face, puh-puh-poker face.” For a moment, everyone forgets where they are and the hyper-sexual act of this beautifully large woman seems completely normal. Then it hits: This woman is a man.
For some, an hour and a half of gender confusion, loud pop music and the foul mouth of a drag queen named Valerie Honeywell just screams “uncomfortable.” Last Friday night though, the Memorial Union was jam packed full of people believing just the opposite.