Duh-duh-da-dahhh!  Announcing a new regular feature: Faggy Fashion Fridays, showcasing the best and worst in homosexual attire!

Our debut ensemble is a sexy fetish look, the kind that only gay men dare to wear—at least in public!

The image (which I’ve held on to for decades) is from the long-gone gay porn magazine In Touch (not to be confused with the celebrity gossip rag of today), which intriguingly used to include out-on-the-town coverage of the down-and-dirty punk music scene.

 

I love this punk-meets-leatherman look!  Hot!

 

The caption reads:

BACK OF THE MONTH: Here’s proof that you don’t have to undress to be sexy: bass guitarist Bruce Moreland, formerly of Wall of Voodoo and currently of Nervous Gender, strutting his stuff at Jack Marquette’s Phenomenon in downtown Los Angeles.  Yes, Bruce is cute from the front too.

 

Bonus!  Here’s another page from the same issue of In Touch.

 

The caption reads:

ABOVE LEFT:  Gordon Gand demonstrates that a bunch of boys can call their group Violent Femmes and still get booked.  ABOVE RIGHT: Ridgway demonstrates that you can break up your group (Wall of Voodoo) at its peak of popularity and survive; Ridgway’s is the haunting voice on Stewart Copeland’s “Don’t Box Me In” hit from Rumble Fish.  BELOW: El Duce of the Mentors demonstrates that you can hide your pretty face as long as you surround yourself with people less modest than yourself.

“Every Night in Drag” is a historical photo essay by drag queen Linda Simpson documenting a fantastic New York City queendom, from the late 1980s to the mid 1990s.  (Posted every Monday and Thursday.)

 

FLASHBACK #4

APRIL–JUNE 1991


UPDATE: PHOTO MOVED TO EveryNightInDrag.com

 

Leigh Bowery at Parallel nightclub.

 

 

 

 

I didn’t want to start promoting Lady Bunny’s new show, That Ain’t No Lady, at La Escuelita nightclub before I could see it for myself.  I only recommend superior products!

So what’s the verdict?  Was I delighted by last night’s debut, which Bunny referred to as a “mess rehearsal?”  Yes, precisely because it was so messy!  Technical difficulties, an unmemorized song list, and a smashed banana prop helped create a perfectly goofy framework for her retrospective of crude, rude, cornball jokes and song parodies.

Bunny vowed from stage that the rest of the show’s run (through October) will be slicker, but there’s absolutely no need.  Watching Bunny have to hilariously improvise her way through the topsy-turviness was the best part!

 

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The show included several figure-flattering costumes.

 

Who was there, groaning and moaning to Bunny’s “zingers?”  Lots of her old-time pals, including Perfidia, Billy Beyond, Bobby Miller, Barbara Patterson Lloyd, Lurleen Wallace, Miss Guy, Lahoma Van Zandt, Katie Krocodile, David Yarritu, Jimmy Paul, Dany Johnson and Ande Whyland.  I attended with Angela Di Carlo, who’s (relentlessly) promoting her own show.  And popping on stage for a second—in flats!—was Carmen Carrera from RuPaul’s Drag Race.  

After the show Bunny let loose by madly shimmying around the club to dance classics from her younger days—a consummate performer dedicated to entertaining her fans both onstage and off!

 

Enjoying a post-show dessert.

 

 

 

 

“Every Night in Drag” is a historical photo essay by drag queen Linda Simpson documenting a fantastic New York City queendom, from the late 1980s to the mid 1990s.  (Posted every Monday and Thursday.)

 

FLASHBACK #3

MARCH 1994

 

UPDATE: PHOTO MOVED TO EveryNightInDrag.com

 

Tabboo! at Linda’s apartment.