For the second year in a row, burlesque performer Julie Atlas Muz and I teamed up to deliver presents (with our chauffeur Felix) to pals and business associates of the hot shot production team World of Wonder (which has a snappy blog). I supervised while Julie added color as the Abominable Snow Girl.
As we dashed through decorated lobbies, some festive photos ops were in order.
Our final stop: McDonalds to rest our weary feet.
I love taking pix of eager models and Julie fit the bill!
I like this political action because it’s so wacky!
Next Magazine reports on a new and unusual wedding ceremony that occurs every Saturday at Times Square. All the participants are drag queens—the bride, the groom and the organizer, Kitten Withuwip, who plays pastor.
According to Ms. Withuwip, it’s a way to help convince Middle American tourists that same-sex matrimony is A-Okay.
Ha! Do you think the tourists will get the idea that all gay marriages are like this?
It’s certainly more colorful than the guy-guy and gal-gal weddings profiled in the NY Times!
Volunteers are welcome to get married. Finally, it’s my chance to get hitched—to another drag queen…?! I wonder if Lady Bunny is busy on Saturdays? Gag!
Bravo to you, brave activist queens! I’m definitely going to check it out! Here are the details.
According to influential W Magazine, “gap-toothed models are having a moment.”
Does that mean I can finally begin my modeling career?
Of at least do impersonations?
Howdy Simpson? Linda Doody?
One of my most glorious cinematic moments has returned!
The acclaimed 1991 indie film Poison is screening this week, in a new print, at NYC’s IFC Center. I appear for a flash as an abused prisoner—as a man! (The movie is based partially on the prison memoirs of French outlaw writer Jean Genet.)
I must say, I do a pretty good job. Very vulnerable, very young!
Director Todd Haynes (who is a sweetheart) personally cast me. He was already an underground auteur with his cult classic Superstar, a bio of singer Karen Carpenter starring a Barbie doll cast (Watch it here!).
But it was Poison that really put him on the map. The film is fantastic, an amazing and powerful piece of political art created in response to the rampant AIDS hysteria and homophobia of the Reagan era.
Says the NY Times about the movie’s revival: “A milestone in American independent film and the inciting spark for what came to be known as the New Queer Cinema.”
Nowadays Haynes is one of the film world’s most creative forces, with a string of daring movies, including Safe, Velvet Goldmine, Far From Heaven and I’m Not There.
I’m so proud to be connected in a small (but pivotal!) way to Poison and Haynes’ career.
If you can’t swallow Poison this week, then find another way!
