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While Lady Bunny was performing her hit show “Transjester” at the Stonewall Inn, President Obama declared the building and the area of the Stonewall Uprising as a National Monument.
Today, Lady Bunny gives us a look at her early days as a drag queen in Atlanta with Rupaul and how she was forced by her band, Now Explosion, to dress up in drag on their car ride move to New York City.
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Behind every great drag queen is a great woman- female entertainers who inspired them to be the outrageous drag queen we all love.
Today drag queen historian and video blogger Jaymes Mansfield, who draws his inspiration from the tragic 60s blond bombshell Jayne Mansfield, joins us to talk about the great women who inspired great drag queens.
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Long before drag queens became drag superstars, many gender non conforming artists worked the Chitlin Circuit, a nickname given to venues where black and often queer artists could freely and safely perform in a racially segregated America.
Today we’re going back, back, back to the roots of drag queen musical acts from the Chitlin Circuit all the way to RuPaul and beyond with DJ Marc Moose Moder.
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While cisgender women can certainly tear it up onstage, the don’t always get embraced by LGBT folks who may see them like a white rapper trying to gain acceptance from black folks.
Our guest today is one of Chicago’s rising stars in the drag queen scene, Chelsea Devantez who as Dicksie Pictoria won highly competitive Crash Landing contest, but unlike many of the trans and gay male contestants, Chelsea is a cisgender woman.
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Despite bringing in over $400 million dollars on its opening weekend, critics are panning the new Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice movie, calling it a “knight-mare.” Even the hilarious “Sad Ben Affleck” is turning into an Internet meme.
Today Brian Sweeney joins us to look at all the spectacular ways Batman v Superman failed, but more importantly: who would you rather sleep with: Ben Affleck or Henry Cavill?
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As creative people pursuing careers in entertainment, we’re usually broke so we take a lot of unusual jobs to pay the bills.
Today Amanda Cohen, joins us to talk about all the unusual jobs we’ve had over the years- working as an tv & movie extra, fortune telling, remaining still as a Mrs. Claus statue and even erotic face painting.
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Once upon a time, there was a little white girl who grew up in the Brewster Projects of Toledo, Ohio. Little Wendy Jo Smith grew up to become the sassy Wendy Ho and now drag queens love to lip sync her outrageous songs in nightclubs throughout the land.
Today we chat with Wendy Ho about how she developed her outrageous character, what it’s like occupying the same entertainment space as drag queens, and her thoughts on cultural appropriation.
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As they said on the Simpsons, Christmas is the season where people from all religions come together to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. Christmas is like an air raid siren during the holiday season, no matter how hard you try, it’s hard to ignore.
Today, gay Jewish rapper Big Dipper joins us to take our insane Christmas quiz. Can you guess which oddball Christmas traditions are real or just really weird?
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It’s the 20 year anniversary of To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, the unusual film that featured pretty much every famous drag queen at the time including RuPaul, Lady Bunny, Coco Peru and Miss Understood.
Joining us today is Miss Understood to look at the movie and how through her company, Screaming Queens, she’s gotten to work with so many well loved drag performers.
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Dolores Deluce spent several lifetimes living and working with the sassiest of queens, from San Francisco’s Cockettes to the legendary drag queen Divine. And just like her unique friendships, the jobs she’s taken to support herself as an artist have been just as wild and colorful.
Listen as Dolores shares with us her very moving and hilarious true life stories of all the truly wacky jobs she’s had on her roller coaster ride in Hollywood.