Drag Queens and Volunteers Promote Safe Sex
By Dalia Acosta
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=53756HAVANA, Dec 2, 2010 (IPS) - Margot Parapar gets plenty of laughs from the audience with this joke: "Now the human body is divided into five parts: head, trunk, upper and lower limbs, and condom." Using his female stage name, Cuban drag queen, comedian and health promoter Oliver Alarcón includes HIV/AIDS prevention messages in his shows.
"On-stage, I try to put my message into accessible language, so that it reaches people directly, without vulgarity and for a very mixed audience, because we are all vulnerable," the artist told IPS.
He took part in a gala titled "Canto a la vida" (Song to Life), in response to the global AIDS epidemic, at the Fausto Theatre in Havana Sunday.
