Chicago’s Jesuit-run Loyola U. drag show asks: ‘what does your gender mean to you?’
Image via Wikipedia The Jesuit -run Loyola University of Chicago again hosted an annual drag show on the university campus last week, featuring a lineup of crossdressers and inviting students to “question why gender is rigidly controlled.” “We all step in line when it comes to gender. Men wear pants. Women put on makeup. Girls get pink and boys blue,” states Advocate LUC, the school’s gay rights group, on the event’s Facebook site. “This is not necessarily a bad thing, but it can be if we never question why gender is rigidly controlled.” One of the participants in Loyola University's "drag" fashion show. Students were invited to “a night of inquiry, fun and dance as students perform in drag and share their experiences with their peers.” (Pictures of the event are available here .) Patrick Reilly of the Cardinal Newman Society , which noted the annual event on its blog this week, said the event betrays the trust of parents who wish to send their teens to a gen...