I wanna do a shout out to Dynasty Young who brought a stun gun to his high school, ironically named Arsenal Tech High, to combat the bullies. He didn’t shoot the stun gun at anyone but he’s facing expulsion. The asshole school authorities say he brings it on himslef for wearing gender non conforming clothes, but don’t all kids deserve a safe space to be whoever they want to be?

Not everyone hates his look and he even won second place in the school talent contest for doing Beyonce’s “Single Ladies.”

I’m gonna honor this courageous kid for standing up for himself with a stun gun by posting Calpernia Addams’”Stunning.” You go girl!

Calpernia Addams, the Peabody Prize winning writer, actress and activist, best known on the Feast of Fools for her single “Stunning” joins us today to talk about the genesis of that fabulous dance song.

“Stunning” came out one of the episodes from her brand new reality tv series “Transamerican Love Story” a revolutionary elimination dating show featuring Calpernia as a trans woman searching for romance from a small group of handsome men.

The version we play on the show was remixed by Robbie D. We had the pleasure of hanging with Robbie D. at Idapolooza music festival in Tennessee in 2001 and Marc got to paint his ass blue!

Calpernia’s reality show is like The Bachelorette but with a fabulous trannie as the prize. You get to see an inside look at the men who are attracted to transsexual women and what it will take to win her heart. We recommend buying the season pass on the iTunes Music store, that way you’ll get every episode as it’s released each week, much like this podcast!

Life hasn’t always been stunning for Calpernia.

Calpernia was thrust into the public spotlight in 1999 when her lover, Pvt. Barry Winchell was harassed and murdered by his fellow soldiers after rumors of their relationship circulated around the base.

A controversial New York Times article titled “An Inconvenient Woman” portrayed GLBT groups as trying to qualify their relationship as “homosexual” in order to draw attention to the problems with the U.S. Military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy banning lesbians, trans, gays and bi folks from serving their country.

Because of this intense life-changing event, Calpernia decided to become an activist for more positive media portrayals of transsexual women.

She participated in the production of “Soldier’s Girl” as an on set consultant to keep the story true to her experience. The film won several awards and featured Lee Pace from Pushing Daisies as Calpernia.

Join Kennidi Monroe, Marc Felion and me Fausto Fernós as we talk with Cali about her friendship with web-designer Andrea James, dealing with unpopular contestants and Calpernia’s list of stupid questions not to ask a Trannie. Of course, we asked her anyway, well not really.

Don’t miss the last part of the show where Calpernia teaches me how to force feminize my voice. I sound almost as stunning as she does!

This is the podcast that uses the voice you want to use- Feast of Fools.

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The lip synching queens at the clubs are going to go ga-ga over this song because it will give them a chance to strut their stuff, drop a whole lot of attitude and stun the hell out of the audience. Stunning is sure to replace the “flawless” and “fierce” in the drag vocabulary.

Sal-E issues an edict that he wants to do it first! So don’t lip sync this until our in-house nightclub diva performs it, otherwise you’ll get a stunning. But please check out Calpernia’s video for the song, because it’s well, stunning.

Sal-E gives us the dirt that queens dish out to each other behind the scenes at the club. Poor Sal-E strained his back from doing too many high-energy dance moves last weekend trying to give the audience what they wanted which was some clown-loving-madness. Did he deliver? Of course. He was STUNNING.

Some guy in Florida announced that he’s straight last week when he held a press conference announcing he had found a “rare nude portrait” of Marylin Monroe which turned out to be Madonna trying to hitch hike naked in pumps from her infamous book “Sex” originally titled “(X)” but changed because of the Spike Like film about civil rights activist Malcolm X. Check out the picture in the context of the book here.

I don’t know what planet that guy lived on but everyone saw that picture. Even in the Simpsons’ Marge said “British women don’t pump gas naked.”

We talk about Larry King, the teenage boy in California who shot by a classmate for being too gay. These young kids come out so early now and some people just can’t handle it. It is so wonderful that kids are coming to terms with who they are at such a young age but it so sad that others can’t handle it. It reminds me of what someone said “the future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed.” When will the world catch up to people like Larry?

One listener, faery4476 wrote in the forums “I knew the boy and attended the vigil last night. He was a kind, creative, and compassionate kid who had a difficult life. It’s such a tragedy that his potentially bright future was stifled by ignorance and intolerance.” We are so very sorry for your personal loss and we are sorry for the loss to the community as a whole.

Another listener of the Feast of Fools made it on CBS News for Candlelight Vigil for Larry King wearing a cranberry red Feast of Fools T shirts. We were very touched that he chose to wear it at the vigil and it was comforting to see the turnout at the vigil on the news.

Always stunning- Feast of Fools.

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