Over the course of four months, the University of Oklahoma recently paid a total of $29,000 for two drag queen performers.
Oklahoma’s flagship public institution hosted Yvie Oddly in April as the headliner for its annual “Crimson & Queens” drag show, costing $18,000, and earlier this semester, in August, paid Kornbread Jete $11,000 to host drag bingo.
The payments became public through open-records requests filed by the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, and payment for both performers came from student fees at OU.
The August Drag Bingo event cost $17,674, and Jete was paid the $11,000 for “a minimum of two (2) songs” and to host bingo, according to the records.
With tuition and mandatory fees for a full-time, in-state Oklahoma student at about $4,800 per semester, the $29,000 would cover six semesters’ worth of tuition.