Queer Alliance celebrates unity with song & dance show
 

Just when you thought the Spice Girls were gone, the “Brave Bullettes” shook it to the left, drag queen-style at the Queer Alliance’s annual production, “7 Inch Heels and a Microphone” held in Jack Adams Hall last Thursday.

The show, “7 Inch Heels,” was originally a drag queen cabaret act that slowly evolved into a multi-talented variety show, according to the QA. All of the proceeds made from the event are divided between the Cindy Kolb AIDS Foundation that Kolb created when she worked at SF State’s Disability Resource Center and the SF State QA, said Amber Rivard, the QA’s current president and event coordinator.

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a queer group of spiritual individuals devoted to community outreach and support, opened with an evening prayer and the uniquely dressed “sisters” asked the audience to close their eyes and envision an imaginary triangle with three individual points.

“Connect them,” they said of the imaginary triangle points. “This represents the unity amongst us. This is how it should always be.”

Following this, roughly 75 people held hands, bowed their heads and prayed in silence before the show began.

Numerous song and dance performances filled the evening. “Breathess,” “Kumora,” “Mikayla Vixon,” and “Kristan Starr,” all Brave Bullette members, lip synched the words to songs by Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez and Avril Lavigne while dancing in seven inch heels.

A guest appearance from JenRO, a Bay Area “out lesbian rapper” who has formerly appeared on VH1’s “My Coolest Years,” also hyped up the crowd and performed three songs from her latest CD.

The Bay Area-based rap duo, Grand Angel, took a road trip from Los Angeles just to make it to the evening’s show. “Arch Angel” and “Grand Noble” rapped three tracks from their debut album entitled “Bay Guardian,” which they sold at their table set up outside of Jack Adams Hall.

“Rappers now usually don’t have the courage to stand up for something like this,” said Wade “Arch Angel” Wilson. “We stand up and say it’s okay regardless of race, age, gender, sexual orientation. In the music world it’s supposed to bring us together, not divide us.”

The Lesbian Gay Chorus of San Francisco closed the show with two comical performances. Its witty rendition of “Stacy’s Mom,” by Fountains of Wayne, had the crowd on their feet and clapping their hands and even left one of their members in a polka dot bikini top and black slacks.

“I liked it a lot. It was very interesting,” said Angela Hudson, a first-time attendee of the annual production. “I think it’s great that there are even some parents who came out to see their children perform. The support is incredible.”

For further information about the QA or for upcoming events, visit the official QA Web site at www.myspace.com/qasfsu.

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