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Remembering JoJo Baby and Heklina

Long before drag was a mainstay of reality television, LGBTQ+ folks turned to drag for fun, to challenge society and explore their gender through an artistic, comedic and performative lens.

Today we remember two queer culture legends, Chicago’s JoJo Baby and San Francisco’s Heklina, who both died this past month and the impact they had on so many people’s lives, including ours.

Posted in: Musicians, Podcast 11 months ago 2

Dancing with the Stars – Rory Davis

San Francisco theater has had a long history of inviting everyone to shine onstage and shake their groove thing. But when you have a lot of performers with stars in their eyes and two left feet, the show can grind to a halt if the choreography isn’t accessible.

Today San Francisco choreographer to the stars Rory Davis joins us to talk about his work wrangling the top drag queens, movie stars and entertainers into fabulous shows.

Posted in: Artists, Podcast 2 years ago 0

FOF #2919 – Peaches Christ’s Very Own Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

2020 has been harder on working drag queens than Baby Jane Hudson was to her poor sister Blanche in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. If only we weren’t in this Covid pandemic. But you are Blanche, you are in that pandemic.

For drag legend Peaches Christ, this year she opened up her private vault of campy horror films spoofs and she’s getting ready for the future by developing all new tv and film projects.

Today Peaches Christ looks back on her year of hell, speculates on which famous horror house she’d love to live in, and her upcoming streaming release of Whatever Happened to Bianca Del Rio.

Posted in: Drag Queens & Kings, Podcast 3 years ago 0

Best of: Hollywood’s Disposable Beefcake

We love the wild women and outrageous plots of films like Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Rocky Horror, Myra Breckinridge and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, but despite their success as camp classics, after their release, the hunks who starred in them all but disappeared from Hollywood.

Today we’re joined by Peaches Christ, who has been parodying many of these campy films for decades, to discuss why these hunks ran screaming from Hollywood after making only one film.

Posted in: Drag Queens & Kings, Podcast 3 years ago 0

FOF #2896 – Peaches Christ and the Witches of East Bay

One of our favorite movies is The Witches of Eastwick, which pits three icons: Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfieffer against the devil himself as they turn to witchcraft to manage their mid-life crisis.

Today, San Francisco drag empresario Peaches Christ chats with us about opening up her vault of drag parodies for an internet viewing party of her show “The Witches of East Bay” where Peaches Christ, Coco Peru and Chad Michaels take a look at what happens when three drag legends get older in a world dominated by pesky young drag queens.

Posted in: Podcast, Politicians/Activists, Writers 4 years ago 0

FOF # 2879 – You Don’t Nomi: 25 Years of Showgirls

Today documentary filmmaker Jeffrey McHale joins us to take a look at why people still can’t stop talking about Showgirls all these years later. Jeffrey’s feature film debut, You Don’t Nomi, explores the themes of sexual violence, camp and outrageousness in Paul Verhovens films and interviews a wide variety of fans of this cult classic.

Posted in: Filmmakers, Podcast 4 years ago 1

Peaches Christ: Horror Movies Every Gay Man Must See

By special request, my friend Donut McQueen loves horror films with a gay twist, so we’re sharing this Best of Fun epsisode today! (Originally posted on 10.02.08) Look out behind you! Do not go in […]

Posted in: Podcast 4 years ago 0

FOF #2858 – Peaches Christ Looks at Her Twisted Home Movies

The most hated queen this season is Miss Rona! She shut down every club, gig, and festival so now all the other queens are scrambling trying to figure out how to keep their wigs above water.

Our ghoulish gal pal Peaches Christ is opening up her vault, An Evening With Peaches Christ & Her Home Movies – a rare viewing of her short films with a live Q&A.

Today Peaches Christ joins us to take a look at how drag queens are reinventing themselves in the times of Rona by looking at the weird videos they made back when there was no Internet.

Posted in: Drag Queens & Kings, Podcast 4 years ago 0

Cooking with Drag Queens: Peaches Christ – Baltimore Crab Cakes

Crab cakes! Many people who spent their summers near the sea have happy memories of catching crabs in their nets, pulling the meat out and packing it into delicious crab cakes.

Joining us today is one of our favorite drag queens in the whole world Peaches Christ, who is best known for her spectacular staged tributes to the campiest films of all time- from Showgirls, to Mommie Dearest, from Hocus Pocus to Grey Gardens.

Posted in: Cooking with Drag Queens, Featured, Videos 4 years ago 0

FOF #2810 – Peaches Christ Takes on Gremlins

Fierce. Gorgeous. Glamorous. Dangerous. Peaches Christ’s new show for the holiday season, Femlins is a hilarious send-up of the Stephen Speilberg holiday classic Gremlins, but with an all drag queen cast.

Today the glorious Peaches Christ, filmmaker and drag legend joins us to talk about the film Gremlins and her stage tribute Femlins, playing at the Castro Theater one day only, Dec 14th.

Posted in: Drag Queens & Kings, Podcast 4 years ago 0