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Today Larry La Fountain, drag queen Lola Von Miramar and professor of queer and Latinx studies at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor joins us to take a look at the amazing life of Rita Moreno as seen in the new documentary “Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It.”
Plus- Cooking with Drag Queen’s first episode with Lola Von Miramar “How to Make Tostones” first popped in the fryer 11 years ago!
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ow we think about gender identity and sexuality is evolving and some people are having a hard time keeping up with all the new language surrounding these new concepts.
Our friend, Professor Larry La Fountain travels all over the world talking about LGBT people and Latin American culture and one of the most common questions he gets asked is: what is Latinx and how do you translate the word “queer” into Spanish?
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Everyone knows the Grammys are a sham, so why are folks getting so upset that Despacito got overlooked?
Today the always fabulous Larry La Fountain, queer and Latinx studies professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor joins us to look at the crisis in Puerto Rico and this remarkable song’s power to change the world.
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We love comedian Marga Gomez, who you may know from such film classics as Sphere where she and Queen Latifah go down deep, deep into the sea. Marga was born into showbiz- her father was an empresario who created variety shows in New York City for Latinx audiences that included such amazing acts as Tito Puente, Celia Cruz and transgender cabaret pioneer Christine Jorgensen.
Today, Marga Gomez joins us in the home studio to kiki about her new and perhaps last show, Latin Standards, her awkward run ins with Ellen DeGeneres and all the unusual films & TV shows she managed to get cast in including Sense 8 and Batman Forever.
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Of all the queens on Cooking with Drag Queens, nobody’s worked her appearance on the web series to get gigs talking about drag, food and culture like Lola Von Miramar, the creation of Dr. Larry La Fountain who teaches queer latinx studies at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
Today, Lola joins us to kiki about Pepsi’s disastrous Kendall Jenner advertisement, teaching a university course on the art of drag in America and all the té on the latinx hijas from RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 9: Valentina, Cynthia Lee Fontaine and Jaymes Mansfield.
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ow we think about gender identity and sexuality is evolving and some people are having a hard time keeping up with all the new language surrounding these new concepts.
Our friend, Professor Larry La Fountain travels all over the world talking about LGBT people and Latin American culture and one of the most common questions he gets asked is: what is Latinx and how do you translate the word “queer” into Spanish?
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Dr. Larry LaFontaine is best known to fans of Feast of Fun as the incredible Lola Von Miramar whose first time in drag was in our very first episode of Cooking with Drag Queens where we fried up tostones and smashed them with cha cha heels.
Today, Larry La Fountain joins us to talk about his new coloring book on Queer History and his sexy new short story, SJU-ATL-DTW, about sex, airports and life as gay Puerto Rican in Detroit.
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One of my favorite dishes from my home of Puerto Rico is arroz con pollo, or in English, rice with chicken. Growing up in San Juan, we this dish all the time, but especially on special occasions like birthdays and holidays when you had to feed a lot of people.
Joining us today is our Puerto Rican gal pal Lola Von Miramar, who out of drag as Larry La Fountain teaches queer Latino studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
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Today, Lola Von Miramar, the only drag queen in our series with a Ph.D. (and that’s not just piled high and deep) joins us to talk about the delicious things that didn’t make it into her Cooking with Drag Queens episode.
Throughout his life, Larry has been told he would make a wonderful drag queen but he resisted the call of the wild because of the stigma associated with cross dressing but in summer 2010 he relented and dove right in.
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Have fun as Daphne Dumont, Saltina Obama Bouvier and Lola Von Miramar teach you how to make coquito, a delicious Puerto Rican Christmas beverage. Think of it as a coconut based egg nog!