The Santa Fe LGBTQIA+ community gathered Sept. 15-17 to celebrate Pride on the Santa Fe University of Art and Design campus and throughout town.

On April 23, Santa Fe University of Art and Design’s Quad was decked out in rainbows, pinks, purples and blues. Pride flags swung wildly as students, faculty, staff and members of the local community gathered to celebrate the LGBT community with a commemoratory drag show.

Androgenicity is a  newly formed club  at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design dedicated to the great art and theatrics of dressing in drag and putting on a show. The club aims at breaking the ice with a hammer, and showing its members how to entertain as well as provoke an audience to consider the circumstances of gender. Through Androgenicity, members and supporters will work throughout the semester to produce a Drag show. This club is headed by student ambassador Gelo Guisti, whose alter ego, the fabulous Miss Gelato, has become a regular presence on campus from school-hosted events to simple walk arounds. Miss Gelato struts around with thick heels and deep eyeshadow. Her pale complexion and often vivid attire and wigs explode along with her personality. As Gelo sees his alterego, Miss Gelato is very much a dear character of his own person, which exists on her own with her own variation of personality. This past week I had the pleasure of sitting down with both Gelo and Malcom Morgan, the club administrator as well as a very proactive enrollment advisor of the Performing Arts students. Over the last week, Androgenicity held its first meeting and appointed cabinet members for the club: President Gelo Giusti; Vice President Isaac Navaro; Secretary Mariah Faye; Treasurer Jake Oliver and Historians Bythe C. Brooks and Lauren Eubanks. According to Malcom Morgan, these students will learn to manage their positions in the club and develop strengths in leadership and organization. One of the heavier questions that I asked Gelo and Malcom is what drag means to them. A general consensus between the two is that drag is a form of art in which one builds up a character. “We are taking these structures and just breaking them apart. We...