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...time the bingo balls start rolling, there are almost 30 people in the room, and, surprisingly enough, almost half of them are women. We’re seated in clumps of six or seven people at the dining hall tables, filling in bingo cards stamped with pictures of what appears to be Madonna with a parakeet...
...queens and kings of Drag Bingo still play off familiar drag norms, and most are either swishy hypercamp males decked out in bedazzling sequins and Tammy Faye Baker/slaughterhouse makeup, or butchy chicks in a half-assed suits and ties. I’m still wearing the sweatshirt and baggy jeans configuration...
...course, not all the bingo players are queer. Many people attend the event simply for the fun it promises or, like Jonathan M. Bloom ’04, they have come to show support as allies. Barefoot in a slinky spaghetti-strap dress, Bloom says that he is “not queer-identified,” but attended the event knowing that he risked being labeled “gay” anyway...
Suggs shouts out the bingo numbers in a slight Tennessee twang, and soon, the first bingo is called. The winner is Christine Thai, a short MIT senior dressed like a male high school debater. Her prize: a box of “dirty” fortune cookies that comes in a takeout container bearing a picture of a grinning, slanty-eyed coolie bent in a deep bow. She passes the fortunes around the table. Mine: “Tight buns drive me nuts...
Suggs draws out a bingo ball and reads the label: “O-69.” A bawdy cheer goes...