Drag Ball St. Louis was created by Khrystal Leight, a zaftig Bette Midler impersonator from St. Louis, Missouri, to entertain and raise awareness of the art form of female impersonation in local and regional college campuses throughout the Midwest. Drag Ball was first held in the fall of 1992 at Washington University in St. Louis in cooperation with the gay student organization, Spectrum. Drag Ball has been an annual tradition at Washington University and has been held at Webster University in St. Louis, the University of Missouri, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale and Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, MO. Drag Ball includes drag queens who perform in the theater of the university or college for the students.