DailyColonial.com – By Maura McGraw
Dressed to impress in wigs, stockings, and heels, student and professional drag kings and queens entertained a highly energized crowd of more than 200 people at Allied in Pride’s first ever annual Glitter Ball.
Last week’s event was a fundraiser honoring the memory of four youth killed across the country in February in anti-gay, anti-transgender attacks — Soneesha Stewart, 25, Simmie Williams Jr, 17, Lawrence King, 15, and Adolphus Simmons, 18. Allied said it raised more than $400 during the night for the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League, a non-profit organization that supports lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth in the Washington-metro area.