Drag, as a whole, has played a tremendous role in the cultural diversity on the campus on Indiana University. It’s been 20 years now that the Miss Gay Indiana University Pageant had its first beginnings, and in doing so it paved the way for other similar collegiate drag pageants across the nation. However, none have ever been able to compare to the sheer size, grandeur, or attendance of the Miss Gay IU pageant. Throughout the time of Miss Gay IU, there have been several events for Drag KINGS as well. In converse to their drag queen counterparts, drag kings are defined as biological women who don drag to impersonate a male figure. Even as early as the mid-nineties, there were several drag king groups on campus. (It seems that drag kings, much like wolves, like to travel in packs.) One of the earliest known such clans were the “B-Town Kings”, who made appearances at the MGIU pageant in the late nineties through the early 2000’s. There was always talk of having a “brother” contest to the Miss Gay IU pageant in which these Kings could strut their stuff to win a crown of their own. However, after years and years of setbacks, it seemed that a Drag King Contest at IU would never materialize. In the fall of 2006, however, times were different. OUT had tremendous leadership and incredible aspirations. As part of her MGIU legacy, The current reigning Miss Gay Indiana University 2006 Vanessa Vale decided to finally plan for the much-anticipated drag king contest. As it turned out, there was VERY MUCH desire for a drag king contest, even though the ‘B-town Kings” had broken up and there was practically no drag king scene in Indiana. With the blessing of the OUT executive board and the anticipation of the OUT members, Vale got together with Nationally-known Drag King extraordinaire Xavier Brooks and Brainstormed about the event. Then, in practically no time, the event came to fruition and was held that year in the McNutt Flame Room. The hostess for that first year was Miss Gay IU herself who opened the show with a much-remembered half-man half-woman rendition of Bonnie Tyler’s “If You Were a Woman… (and I Was a Man)”. There were also performances that night by Xavier Brooks, as well as the Indianapolis Drag King troupe “The King of Clubs”. That year, despite it beings its first year, there were a WHOPPING 7 contestants and in the end, senior IU student Aiden won the trophy after wowing the judges in On-Stage Question, fashion modeling, and Talent, where He sang live and then breakdance(d). Head Judge (and MGIU Emeritus) Vicki St. James commented that there were about “three times as many people” at that first year of Hoosier Daddy than Miss Gay IU had in its first several years. In fact, there were over 250 people at the event which raised several hundred dollars for OUT, as well as the MiddleWay House for battered families and Bloomington Hospital’s AIDS Service Organization Positive Link. That February, Aiden (as Hoosier Daddy 2007) set the cornerstone for what the IU Hoosier Daddy Drag King Contest was to become. Not just as escort for Miss Gay IU, but also a entertainer in his own right who won one of the very first collegiate drag KING contests in the nation. It was just one more way in which the OUT organization was shaping Indiana University to be one of the most diverse college campuses in the nation. The next year, OUT decided that it would place the Hoosier Daddy competition in the fall, to have one huge event each semester for the students, with MGIU in the spring. In November of 2007, the tradition was continued in the larger venue of the Wilkie Auditorium as Aiden crowned Duke McAllister Hoosier Daddy 2008 after Duke wowed the diverse panel of judges. Hoosier Daddy continues to be a success, and OUT plans on keeping it going each year as a fun Fall culture event for the greater IU community.