Big Freedia is coming to town for Decibelle music festival and she’s stopping by the home studio to chat with us. Please let us know if you have any questions.

Check out Big Freedia on Late Night with Carson Daily show, talking about the post-Katrina, trans-fueled gay evolution of the ass-shaking Bounce movement.

Here’s a great write up from the New York Times about this extraordinary queer artist.

And I better get my ass-shaking into shape.

Overview:

“We all know the stereotypes…But how gay do you want to be today?”

Welcome to 50 F*ggots – the groundbreaking, new, online documentary series educating, exploring and celebrating how individual effeminate gay men survive and thrive in today’s American queer communities!

50 F*ggots educates audiences with the unprecedented access to the lives and experiences of effeminate male activists, artists, professionals and educators – perspectives rarely discussed within most cultures.  The series addresses the dearth of self-acceptance among effeminate men, young and old, with humorous anecdotes, important wisdom, and inspiring models of resilience. By offering individual alternatives to dominant constructions of American masculinity and heteronormative gay lifestyles, this film illuminates the on-going issues relevant to queer communities.

The first season, located in the urban neighborhoods of Chicago, Washington D.C., and New York City, dedicates two years to documenting the stories of ten effeminate gay men. These men discuss their professional and personal lives, often in contradiction to communities that demand a rigid and binary definition of gender, particularly valuing patriarchy and an “appropriate” presentation of “straight-acting” masculinity. Regardless of each man’s assertion of their own authentic self, specific dominant ideologies construct the societal assumptions of these men’s presumed personalities, sexualities and behaviors.

This documentary series celebrates the differences among urban and rural environments, along racial, religious, and intergenerational lines. While the series allows each man to discuss the ways their personal effeminate expressions are negotiated in career, relationships, and communities, this documentary project creates national dialogue around the diversity of ways to truly “be” a man.

Daphne Dumount (Marc Felion) has gone too far, so her gal pals Saltina Bouvier (Fausto Fernós) and Victoria Lamarr (Matthew Bogseth) give her a good dose of harsh beauty treatments.

Edited by Nathan Adloff, camera by Fausto Fernós.

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