{"id":31441,"date":"1997-11-19T09:34:49","date_gmt":"1997-11-19T13:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=31441"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:57:14","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:57:14","slug":"christmas-drag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/1997\/11\/19\/christmas-drag\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine Gay Men&#039;s Chorus presents &#039;Christmas can be a DRAG!&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Maine Gay Men&#8217;s Chorus will present <em>Christmas can be a DRAG!<\/em> an evening holiday music to benefit the AIDS Coalition of Lewiston-Auburn, at 8 p.m. Dec. 5 in the Bates College Chapel. Conducted by Edward Reichert and accompanied by David Sherman, the Maine Gay Men&#8217;s Chorus will perform traditional favorites, including &#8220;Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer&#8221; and &#8220;White Christmas&#8221; as well as non-traditional, whimsical songs such as &#8220;I&#8217;m Wishing You a Drag Queen Christmas&#8221; and &#8220;Coming Out on Christmas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door. In the Lewiston-Auburn area, tickets may be purchased at Axis Natural Foods, Bull Moose Music, Connexion, L\/A Arts, Mega Convenience Store, Simones&#8217; Hot Dog Stand and Sportsman Athletic Club. Tickets are also available at the A-1 Diner in Gardiner and Strawberries Records stores in Auburn, Brunswick and Waterville. Contact the AIDS Coalition of Lewiston-Auburn at 207-786-4697 for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maine Gay Men&#8217;s Chorus will present Christmas can be a DRAG! an evening holiday music to benefit the AIDS Coalition of Lewiston-Auburn, at 8 p.m. Dec. 5 in the Bates College Chapel. Conducted by Edward Reichert and accompanied by David Sherman, the Maine Gay Men&#8217;s Chorus will perform traditional favorites, including &#8220;Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer&#8221; and &#8220;White Christmas&#8221; as well as non-traditional, whimsical songs such as &#8220;I&#8217;m Wishing You a Drag Queen Christmas&#8221; and &#8220;Coming Out on Christmas.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11010,39,31],"tags":[10830,6135,6889,9087],"class_list":["post-31441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-event-highlights","category-lewiston-auburn","tag-lewiston-auburn","tag-music-tag","tag-performing-and-visual-arts","tag-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92015,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31441\/revisions\/92015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}