Destination: the Life Ball in Vienna!
Party at 20,000 Feet and Then a Red Carpet!
Monthly Archives: May 2012
Here We Go to the Life Ball – at JFK
Austrian Airlines flight #007 is now leaving for Vienna…
Vienna, Here I Come!
How do you say “drag queen reporter” in German? Today I’m on my way to Vienna, Austria to cover the Life Ball—the famed annual gala fundraiser for AIDS organizations!
Each year the event whisks over a plane load of New Yorkers—press, party promoters, creatures of the night, etc.—and meine freundin Anett, who’s working for the Ball this year, has arranged for me to attend as a member of the media. Dankeschön!
Everyone I know who has attended in the past raves about the fabulousness of it all!
Honey, I wouldn’t be schlepping half-way across the world for a two-day trip if it was just any old wienerschnitzel roast!
I’m treating my reporting job with the utmost seriousness! (Can you hear me clicking my World War II knee-high black boots together?) Look for my up-to-the minute coverage here on my site, as well as on my Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Gotta go! I still have to pack my lederhosen and Heidi wigs!
Ms. Culture Vulture
It’s been a whirlwind lately for me of art, music and film! Among my recent activities…
*Michael Bilsborough’s new exhibit of geometric drawings at Invisible Exports gallery on the Lower East Side. Great opening—tons of socializing!
*Performance at Public Assembly by minimal electronics duo Xeno and Oaklander. My first time hearing and seeing them—I can’t wait to catch them again!
Xeno and Hollander's captivating female half, Liz Wendlebo. *Trans artist Wu Tsang at the Whitney Museum discussing his quasi-documentary Wildness, about a transgender bar in working-class L.A. and its various patrons. The movie is fascinating—lots and lots of layers!
- Wu is a smarty and is a great speaker!
*Plus I managed to sneak in a night on the town hanging out with Natasha a.k.a. Madison Payne.
It didn't take much to convince Natasha to pose! 
Me in a classy crotch shot! So much to do and see! I’ll rest when I’m dead!
Time For More Evolving
Yay! President Obama has endorsed gay marriage!
But, uh-oh, according to polls, the majority of Afro-Americans disagree with Mr. O. because of their Christian beliefs.
So now the media is pitting blacks against gays—which is ridiculous. First of all, there are lots of people who fall into both categories!
But regarding those black people who adamantly cite the Bible—and I realize this is a touchy subject—I’m always baffled by their gung-ho endorsement of Christianity in the first place. Why exalt the religion of your historic oppressor? An oppressor that justified slavery with Old Testament verses—and whose image of Jesus was white as snow! (Can you tell I’m not down with religion?)
Oppressed people embracing the tools of the oppressor… How strange.
But wait a minute! Aren’t gay people doing the same kind of thing? After years of being victimized by straight people, gays now desire the holy grail of heterosexuality—marriage—which queer radicals decry as just as out-dated and enslaving as religion!
Two creaky old sacred institutions—religion and marriage.
Of course, the difference is that no one is denying religion to anyone. And shouldn’t everyone have the right to choose whatever creaky old institution they want?
Happy Undead Couple
I didn’t attend the marriage of burlesque performers Julie Atlas Muz and Mat Fraser this past weekend, but by all accounts it was quite the spectacle. Per Julie’s request, all the bridesmaids dressed as zombies!
Yay, team spirit!
