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  • Bingo Bonanza

    I’m happy to report that my  holiday Bingo event—Ho Ho Bingo—was a huge success! In fact, the management of Le Poisson Rouge wants me to do more special game nights in the big room. What holiday should I do next? Presidents Day? Easter? National Old Drag Queens Day?  I’m looking forward!   BINGO!

  • Join Me On NYE!

    It’s the special New Year’s Eve edition of the party called “Where’s Judy?,” and I’m emceeing a drag show as part of the festivities. At Leftfield Bar on the Lower East Side. I’ll be the oldest one in the room by 500 years!  

  • My Biggest Bingo Ever!

    My game-show hostess career continues with my biggest Bingo ever! On Thursday, December 29th, I’ll be hosting a special holiday event, “Ho Ho Bingo,” in the main room of Le Poisson Rouge. (I normally host every Friday and Saturday in the smaller Gallery Lounge.)     Pressure is on to attract a lot of people—and make sure…

  • David Barton Gym Hits the Dust, But Its Body Beautiful Image Lives On!

    I’ve never set foot in a David Barton gym, but it still seems pretty momentous to me that all of its NYC outposts have abruptly closed. Although never a gay company per se, it was very influential in popularizing the gay fitness and muscle craze—and the current gay body ideal.  When it was founded in…

  • #TBT – Me and Kabuki Starshine

    My #TBT photo is of me and Kabuki Starshine in 1994. That poor thing was so unfortunate looking back then… Back then, she was a creature of the night, nowadays he’s a high-fashion and celebrity makeup artist. In just a couple of weeks, he has a new line of products coming out for MAC cosmetics!  

  • WTF? College Activists Decry “Boys Don’t Cry” as Transphobic!

    I find this terrifying! Kimberly Pierce, the queer director of the 1999 film Boys Don’t Cry, was greeted with anger and insults by trans activists when she recently appeared at progressive Reed College in Oregon. (They hung a sign on her podium that said “Fuck this cis white bitch.”) For various reasons the activists regard the film…