BRATTLEBORO — The Ladies of the Rainbow will perform songs and stand-up comedy at a benefit drag show on Saturday, May 30.
The event, set for 8 p.m. at VFW Carl M. Dessaint Post 1034 at 40 Black Mountain Rd., will feature adult entertainment to raise funds for the AIDS Project of Southern Vermont.
The Ladies of the Rainbow have served up lip-synching and laughter to area audiences since first performing at Dummerston's Rainbow Cattle Co. in the late 1990s.
Their story is captured in an exhibit of photographs by Putney resident Evie Lovett entitled “Backstage at the Rainbow Cattle Co.: The Drag Queens of Dummerston,” a Vermont Folklife Center presentation now touring the state's 14 counties.
The AIDS Project, established in 1988, supports local people living with HIV/AIDS and works to reduce the risk of transmission to others in Windham, Bennington and southern Windsor counties.