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FOF #2041 – Coco Peru Gets Intimate

For over two decades, drag legend Coco Peru has appeared in many fabulous TV shows like Will & Grace and movies like Girls will be Girls, Too Wong Foo and Trick, where’s she will always be known for her iconic line “it burns.”

Today the legendary Coco Peru joins us to talk about her fabulous new career interviewing divas like Jane Fonda and Liza Minnelli for the Los Angeles LGBT Center, her shopping videos and she weighs in on the massive celebrity naked pic scandal.

Posted in: Drag Queens & Kings, Interviews, Podcast 10 years ago 5

FOF #2040 – Brianna Baker Goes to Prison, Hollywood

Like a lot of performers in Chicago, Brianna Baker is making Feast of Fun her last stop before heading to Hollywood to further her career.

Before her big move, Brianna, who never really met her father in person, recently visited him in prison in Florida and discovered they have a lot in common.

Today, Brianna Baker talks about moving from Chicago to LA while connecting with her father as he prepares to get out of prison.

Posted in: Actors, Comedians, Interviews, Podcast 10 years ago 4

FOF #2039 – Alaska’s Makeup is Far from Terrible

Alaska now has a hit on her hands with her new video “Your Makeup is Terrible” where he majestically deconstructs his drag creation, showing us the vulnerable man underneath the painted visage.

Listen as Alaska takes all your questions and gives us the dirt on his collaboration with Adore Delano, the common ground trans folks and drag performers share and how drag builds community.

Posted in: Drag Queens & Kings, Interviews, Podcast 10 years ago 5

FOF #2038 – A Streetcar Named Undesirable

Steven Strafford’s new musical Methtacular! delivers the gay side of Breaking Bad we never got to see, by taking us on a hilarious but harrowing journey of his three years as a crystal meth addict in Chicago.

Today actor Steven Strafford joins us for a live music session playing songs from Methtacular! Listen as Steven talks about having the courage to take some of the worst moments of his life and turn it into art.

Posted in: Actors, Interviews, Live Music Sessions, Musicians, Podcast, Writers 10 years ago 2

FOF #2037 – Michael Sam Takes a Shower

It’s been six months since Michael Sam was drafted into the Rams as the first openly gay player in the NFL. Recently, ESPN ran an update about the defensive end’s career and focused on the player’s shower habits.

Today, writer Zach Stafford joins us to take a look at the media’s odd fascination with Michael Sam’s shower habits, and why straight men look at each others dongs in the locker room a lot more than gay men do.

Posted in: Podcast 10 years ago 4

FOF #2036 – The Artist Formerly Known as Gay

People love a good secret, and there’s no doubt that a lot of men in entertainment revitalized their careers by coming out of the closet, even though everyone already knew.

Maybe it’s just a sign of the times that hunky musician Josey Greenwell is doing just that. After trying to make it as an out gay singer songwriter, Josey deleted his music, website and social media pages several months ago, only to resurface as Nate Green, a seemingly straight country music singer.

Posted in: Podcast 10 years ago 2

FOF #2035 – Trouble in Parkerdise

ince its inception in 1976, the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival has been a “Womyn’s Woodstock”- a special place where gals gather to enjoy their favorite music, free from a hostile world.

Today trans writer and music journalist Parker Marie Molloy joins us to take a look at the controversy over MichFest’s resistance to putting trans folks in their mission statement, despite the reality that trans artists and audiences have been attending the festival all along.

Posted in: Interviews, Podcast, Writers 10 years ago 7

FOF #2034 – Hook Up History

Gay men have always been very resourceful when it comes to finding sexy fun in a sometimes hostile world. Before guys found each other on apps and websites, they figured out creative ways to come together.

Today Jack Ryan, TV host and creator of “The 10% Show,” Chicago’s very first cable access tv show for the LGBT folks joins us to talk about the evolution of men meeting up for sex, from cruising the street back in the day to the latest hook up apps.

Posted in: Interviews, Podcast 10 years ago 7

FOF #2033 – Cameron Esposito Comes Back

For years Comedian Cameron Esposito was a regular on the podcast and even performed with us at a gay men’s bathhouse. Since then she’s moved to L.A. and done really well for herself.

Listen as we reconnect with America’s Lesbian Sweetheart Cameron Esposito about her Hollywood success, her working and romantic relationship with comedian Rhea Butcher and behind the scenes hijinks at Chelsea Lately.

Posted in: Comedians, Interviews, Podcast 10 years ago 8

FOF #2032 – Diary of a Dandy Punk

For a group of people who love rainbows as a symbol of personal empowerment (not talking about teenage girls) LGBT folks aren’t always the most welcoming.

Comedian Cody Melcher often feels rejected or humiliated by strangers while walking through Chicago’s gay neighborhood of Boystown just for the way he looks.

Today, the eccentric gentleman Cody Melcher talks about the burden of being a dandy punk, Mickey Mouse as a meth addict, his birthday curse and his collection of glittery fans.

Posted in: Comedians, Interviews, Podcast 10 years ago 8
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