One of the campus’ most popular events of the year is the Diva Drag Show today at 7 p.m., hosted by EIU Pride.

The event, if you’ve never been, brings in nationally reknowned drag queens to perform in the Grand Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

Along with bringing together a group of famous divas, the event brings together the Charleston community. Many groups on and off campus donate money and sell tickets to everyone all over the Charleston area and beyond.

We commend EIU Pride for putting on this event for as long as they have. It has grown in popularity since the organization began hosting it, and it has brought together a diverse group of people.

EIU Pride is this campus’ LGBTQA-awareness group, but they welcome anybody to the drag show to celebrate men dressing up as women and strutting their stuff down the runway.

This event has brought together all kinds of people from the beginning and it continues to do so. EIU Pride always gets a lot of positive reactions to the show.

Tickets start selling the day they go on sale, and they accept donations, which earn people free tickets.

With all of the money EIU Pride brings in because of this event, they make sure to give back to the community.

After paying for the drag queens, decorations, etc., EIU Pride donates half of its profit to an important organization – this year it’s the Sexual Assault Counseling and Information Service center.

We think EIU Pride is doing a great deed by donating 50 percent of its profit to help a different organization. It certainly has the right to keep all the profits to help fuel its own organization, but this just shows that EIU Pride is always thinking outward.

Helping others is one of the things that make EIU Pride such a great organization on campus. This is just one of the examples of that.

We commend EIU Pride for working hard to put on this event all by themselves. This event brings together a diverse group from the Eastern and Charleston communities to have some laughs and share a unique experience together.

If someone asks you if you went to the drag show and you say, “Yes,” you have a bond because you’ve shared that experience with him or her.

This event certainly creates a bond between all the people who attend, no matter their race, gender, or sexual orientation.

We commend EIU Pride for all it does in hosting this fabulous event, and we can’t wait to see some divas in drag tonight.