Category: My Life

  • And the Nominees Are… Vaginal…

    And the Nominees Are… Vaginal…

    GLAAD (The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) has just announced the nominees for its annual media awards ceremony on March 19th. Among those vying for the Off-Off Broadway award is my longtime pal Vaginal Davis for her conceptual talk show, Vaginal Davis is Speaking from the Diaphragm, presented at PS 122.

  • New Beauty’d Queen!

    New Beauty’d Queen!

    Haven’t met her yet, but I’ve been a fan for a while of Kitty Hiccup’s good grooming.  Girl got it going on! Her new title: Miss’d America.  She was crowned on Sunday in Atlantic City at Boardwalk Hall,  former home of the iconic Miss America pageant.  If that runway could talk!

  • The Birthday Trap

    The Birthday Trap

    Sylvia London was all smiles yesterday on her birthday.  But I could sense her inner turmoil about me not devoting a special blog post to her.  Especially since I had just given a birthday shout out to her Bitches in the Sky co-star Angela Di Carlo. To ease my guilt, here’s a belated pictorial salute…

  • How to Stop Hate Rhetoric?  Unleash the Drag Queens!

    How to Stop Hate Rhetoric? Unleash the Drag Queens!

    Linda Simpson, Lady Bunny and Miss Understood VS the Black Israelites—in Times Square!

  • Time For Some Red Carpet Feminism

    Time For Some Red Carpet Feminism

    Did you catch the Golden Globes?  I watched with lively friends, and of course we had choice comments for some of the showbiz attire. But being well-mannered gentlepeople, none of us opted to post or tweet or carrier-pigeon our hilarious put-downs.  If there’s anything the world doesn’t need is more “fashion commentators” insulting famous women.…

  • My Thank You List on MLK Day

    My Thank You List on MLK Day

    Thank you to the public school system of St. Paul, Minnesota for giving me my first chance to daily interact with people of other races. Thank you to New York City, melting pot of the world, for providing a never-ending opportunity to meet all sorts of homo sapiens.