17th Street High Heel Race

The 32nd annual 17th street High Heel Race bore its traditional trappings on Tuesday night, from its colorful drag queens marching in sky-high stilettos to participants’ playful jibes at national politics. But the Dupont neighborhood’s…

Drag queens in pumps, platforms and stilettos will race down a Dupont Circle street later this month as they have for the past 32 years with one marked change — the District’s annual High Heel Race has been taken over by the mayor’s office.

What began in 1986 as a group of drag queens making a spontaneous drunken sprint between a bar and a steakhouse has become one of the District's most iconic community events. And starting this year, the annual 17th Street High Heel Race is…