High Heel Drag Race at Dupont Circle 2006

Each year on the Tuesday before Halloween, spectators by the thousands head for 17th Street, between P and S Streets NW near Dupont Circle to enjoy Washington's unofficial, but fabulously raucous High Heel Drag Race. Usually between about 7 and 9 p.m., more than 100 drag queens, dressed in outrageous splendor, parade up and down 17th Street NW. At 9 p.m., the High Heel Race to the finish begins and lasts about 15 minutes.

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WOW! Those guys are RUNNING! FAST! I have been to the High Heel Race on 17th Street a half dozen times and I have never been able to get there early enough to actually see the race! Even if you arrive an hour early the crowd is so massive that you can't see ANYTHING of the race for the crowd. So thank you for posting this! It is definitely the most fun event of the year in Washington DC. After the race the contestants hang around to let people photograph them and it is GREAT fun.