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With memories of men in drag in last year’s Gender Bending Extravaganza, people came to the event this year, for the promise of an even better show.

On Friday, PRIDE and the Queer Straight Alliance presented “The Queer Monologues,” at the University Union Hinde Auditorium. The event was free to the public.

The presentations ranged from monologues to lip-syncing performances by such performers as Precious Cargo also known as Miss Gay Sacramento 2006 and a quasi-“Kelly”, the pop-culture drag queen who became famous with her video “Shoes.”

“It was really good,” said Dreya Haynes, a freshman biology major.

PRIDE members handed out vagina lollipops, mini-breast teaching models, to spread cancer awareness, and various pamphlets on lesbian and homosexual life.

The event took two to three weeks to plan, 30 hours just in the past week, said Rian Carroll, programming assistant of the PRIDE center.

If Carroll could tell the Sac State community one thing, it would be to “take an act of interest, and celebrate diversity in order to understand yourself.”

PRIDE and the Queer Straight Alliance are currently working on campus events for PRIDE week.

Between April 23 and April 28, the groups will host “a day of silence” and several events not yet confirmed.

Bailey Mannisto-Iches can be reached at [email protected]