Some celebrated the Jewish holiday of Purim with a drag party. Purim is a festival commemorating the survival of the Jews who were marked for death by Persian rulers in 5th Century BCE. The celebration began with Havdalah to celebrate the end of Shabbat. The drag queens and kings used the performative art of drag to illustrate the story of the Persian Jews escaping death with the help of their beloved Jewish Queen Esther. Read more here: | The Oregonian

Purim story Esther 8:9-11 9 So the king’s scribes were called at that time in the third month (that is, the month of Sivan) on the twenty-third day; and it was written in accordance with everything that Mordecai commanded, to the Jews, to the chief rulers (satraps), and the governors and officials of the provinces which extended from India to Ethiopia (Cush), 127 provinces, to every province in its own script (writing), and to every people in their own language and to the Jews according to their