I've heard a lot about these two events, but what are they?

Colleges & Universities Oberlin College
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<p><a href=“http://www.oberlin.edu/stupub/ocreview/2005/11/4/news/article2.html[/url]”>http://www.oberlin.edu/stupub/ocreview/2005/11/4/news/article2.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>In the spring, Oberlin hosts another equally popular on-campus sex party called the “Drag Ball,” which is organized by students and faculty. “Drag Ball” is the final event at the end of the school’s annual “Transgender Awareness Week,” an event created to “celebrate Oberlin College’s queer community. It is the culmination of a week of “talks and film screenings to celebrate the experiences of transgender, transsexual, intersex and other gender-variant people.”</p>

<p>As its name would imply, students are encouraged to cross dress for the “Drag Ball” party. “Others will attend simply baring their Birthday Suit,” the Oberlin Review reports.</p>

<p>-Says one.</p>

<p>Another says:</p>

<p>Drag Ball is “the social event of the year” at Oberlin College. Originally the Lesbutant Ball, organized by lgbt activists, Drag Ball is now a corporate web-cast venue for the timid heterosexuals to showcase their bed death and tepid understanding of non-traditional genders and sex. The Drag Ball is held in the Student Union and is sponsored by Oberlin College. What used to be a celebration of gender**** and ‘subversive’ lifestyles is now a bunch of really drunk straight boys running around in their girlfriends’ dresses.</p>

<p>In recent years, members of the queer community at Oberlin have begun to boycott Drag Ball, recognizing it as the commercialized, misappropriated sham that it is.</p>