Colombian drag queen and Miss Bambuco Gay 2012 dances at a gay bar in Bogota during the National Bambuco Gay Pageant 2013. For this contest the drag queens dress traditional Colombian clothes and dance the ‘bambuco’, a regional, folkloric, ‘religious related’ dance of the Andes, characterized by the elegance of its movements and precious dresses. Generally couples dance the ‘bambuco’ and men lead women, in this series women are drag queens. This drag queen won the contest last year and at the end of the night she will crown the winner. She is from Huila – a region in the South of Colombia – where the folk dance comes from and where there is a big tradition around the ‘bambuco’ that children learn at school. People in Bogota don’t know how to dance the bambuco, for this reason the winner of the Drag Pageant is generally from Huila, as well as the men that dance with the ladies, and the judges of the contest. Bogota, July 19, 2013