Deaf since the age of 10, Terry Galloway grew up to be one of the funniest performers of her generation. Her new memoir, “Mean Little deaf Queer” recounts some of her life’s most horrific and funny moments.
Listen as we talk with Terry about laughing at your disabilities, why embracing failure in your work leads to success and why Hellen Keller is considered an S&M lesbian icon.
Terry Galloway, Fausto Fernós and Marc Felion - photos by Fausto Fernós
Deaf since the age of 10, Terry Galloway grew up to be one of the funniest performers of her generation.
Calling herself a “modern medical accident,” Terry’s hearing loss, vision problems and childhood hallucinations came as result of an experimental antibiotic given to her mother during the Cold War in Germany. As a 10-year-old self-proclaimed “child freak,” she acted out her fury at her circumstances by faking her own drowning at a camp for crippled children.
Since then, she’s used writing and performance to reveal her queer identity and her silent, quirky world populated by many unforgettable characters.
In Austin, Texas, Terry co-founded the much loved and long-running comedy show, Esther’s Follies which was considered for a run on off Broadway by the producers of Saturday Night Live.
Her new memoir, “Mean Little deaf Queer” recounts some of her life’s most horrific and funny moments.
She’s in Chicago to kick off “Fresh Squeezed” a series of offbeat performance-based events at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theater.
Listen as we talk with Terry about laughing at your disabilities, why embracing failure in your work leads to success and why Hellen Keller is considered an S&M lesbian icon.
* If anyone would like to provide a transcription of this podcast for the hearing impaired we’d happily post it to share with others.
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Comedian Cameron Esposito joins us to take a last look at our outrageous Halloween Costumes as the Wild Things and go over her hyper-lesbian Battlestar Galatica costume complete with fake tattoos. Cameron is recording her first comedy album on December 3rd and 4th. In the news- Maine Says No to Marriage Equality but yes to pot, a woman calls police to complain that her daughter is better at performing oral sex according to her husband, high tech help for modern day Santas and Google gets sued for religious bias against witches.
Cameron Esposito, Marc Felion and Fausto Fernós - photo by Fausto Fernós
Move over Halloween, tell Turkey Day to stuff it! Christmas season is here, the holiday where people from all religions come together to worship the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
But before we dive into the eggnog, the very funny comedian Cameron Esposito joins us to take a last look at our outrageous Halloween Costumes as the Wild Things and go over her hyper-lesbian Battlestar Galatica costume complete with fake tattoos.
Cameron is recording her first comedy album on December 3rd and 4th at the Lincoln Lodge produced by Rooftop Comedy. She’s looking for belly busting-laughers, gigglers, snorters, chucklers and cacklers to provide the laugh track- which means she wants you come to see the show. We’ll be there so let’s get a big table and sit in the back so we won’t be tempted to heckle.
If you live in Chicago, be sure to see her tonight at the Center on Halsted along with Bill Cruz and Jessica Halem for Outlaugh.
James Miller, dressed as breathalyser
In the news-
Maine Says No to Marriage Equality but yes to pot. In a disappointing election on Tuesday, voters in Maine overturned a law allowing same-sex couples to wed, dealing another huge setback to the gay marriage movement. Were they too high to tell the difference between “yes” and “no” ballots?
So what are we going to boycott to teach this New England state a lesson– lobsters, LL Bean or Steven King novels?
But it’s not all bad news- voters in Kalamazoo, Michigan finally pass the highly debated anti-discrimination ordinance, approved by the City Council earlier in June.
A woman calls police to complain that her daughter is better at performing oral sex according to her husband.
High tech help for modern day Santas.
Google is sued for religious bias against witches.
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Interview with Nadya Ginsburg, the woman of a 1000 voices and Selene Luna, the little burlesque star and rock & roll queen! They just wrapped up their hilarious comedy show “Luna and Ginsburg” at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater.
Comb your hair and splash on the Aqua Velva- we’re going on a date with two of the funniest ladies of YouTube- Nadya Ginsburg the woman of a 1000 voices and Selene Luna, the little rock & roll queen of comedy!
They just wrapped up their hilarious show “Luna and Ginsburg” at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, so what’s next for this sassy sisters?
Listen as we talk with Selene about her roots in burlesque, being Margaret Cho’s fake personal assistant in her reality tv show and why she’s so afraid of spiders.
Nadya is best known for her amazing ability to impersonate Madonna, Cher, Winona and Britney- and now J-Lo?
Jennifer Lopez has taken on an alter ego as Lola, and Selene and Nadya are taking no prisoners when roasting Jenny from the Block. Will Lola get what Lola wants?
The girls dish it up on working with Roseanne Barr and Jackie Beat on the Cher and Chaz web series.
And do women need to bleach and straighten their hair to make it in entertainment?
You can see Selene this Tuesday in San Francisco and she’s also performing with Nadya along with Jackie Beat and Mario Diaz in Whatever Happened to Busty Jane? in November at Cavern Club in LA.
In the news:
Mattel comes out with a controversial black Barbie doll, critics say she’s not black enough, but is she blacker than the Oreo Barbie from the 1990s?
Giant female spiders found in Africa that can spin a web three feet wide. Watch out Selene!
And Bronson Pinchot lashes out against Hollywood, but has a soft spot for Tom Hanks.
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Comedian and interdisciplinary artist Tamale Sepp talks about her unusual dissertation, “Bound and Determined” which examines the ways we willingly get ited up in order to liberate ourselves.
Our friend Tamale Sepp has a full-sized, styled corset tattooed on her back, black fingernails, and loves to boss people around, especially in the bedroom. Did we mention she knows the fine art of Shibari, Japanese Rope bondage? So does this make her a dominatrix?
Today comedian and interdisciplinary artist Tamale Sepp talks about her unusual dissertation, “Bound and Determined” which examines the ways we willingly get tied up in order to liberate ourselves.
Listen as Tamale shares with us a couple of great stories about engaging a driver who almost killed her on her motorcycle and the vital advice she gave to a young angry goth girl on surviving high school.
China’s news agency is obsessed with phony Swedish lesbian village.
The sad story of the teen who quit high school after being told to stop cross-dressing as it was causing a disruption.
Justice Sotomayor has quite a few things to say about fetish videos. What does killing kittens have to to do with getting off and how far is too far?
And the Brazilian Orchestra de Sao Paulo lowers the price on their Chicago show after the disappointing news that the Windy City was skipped for 2016 Olympics.
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Bill Cruz, a William the Conqueror of comedy joins us to take an irreverent look at history and how the French invader help introduce a lot of cuss words into the English langugage.
With the exception of Esperanto and Klingon, most languages develop as a result of war. In the year 1066, William the Bastard changed his name to become William the Conqueror when he conquered England, bringing with him dramatic changes to the English language by infusing it with French words. As some new words grew in popularity, others fell out of favor and eventually became taboo.
In this sense, William the Conqueror gave us profanity. And that dear listener, is how all your favorite cuss words – f*cking, sh*t, and c*nt came to be naughty.
Our friend Bill Cruz, a William the Conqueror of Comedy joins us today to take an irreverent look at history and discuss why the Bayeux Tapestry, which depicts the historic invasion of England got him in an uproar.
Wearing his hat and sunglasses during the taping of today’s show, Bill has his poker face on, but when it comes to giving up the laughs, he ain’t bluffing.
The Human Rights Campaign’s new study on the surprisingly high number of queer people who stay closeted in the workplace but are out to their friends and family.
We may be broke, but Twitter isn’t! The social networking and micro-blogging service has been declared to be worth $1 billion by various financial analysts.Can I have a cut?
An Ohio woman gives birth after being implanted with the wrong embryo. Ka-ching! You know she made money from that.
A not so Itsy Bitsy Spider enhances the popes creepy, zombie-like demeanor.
And a Chinese girls sells her hand in marriage to save a sick friends life.
You can see Bill Cruz perform Oct 17th at Mikey O’s Chicago Latino Comedy Fans.
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Human Rights Campaign Gala 2009 – Time to Shine
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Interview with comedian Pam Ann known as the most glamorous airline hostess in the world. Pam’s flying across the country on a “USA Layover” her one woman show.
Strap yourselves in! We’re going first class and the destination? Fabulous! And as an added feature, everybody gets to join the mile high club!
Today we’re talking to Pam Ann- the funniest and most glamorous airline hostess in the world! Pam’s flying across the country on a USA Layover- her one woman show.
Pam’s outrageous commentary on flying has endeared her to airline pilots, flight attendants and service crew throughout the world, which means, the gays love her, and you will too.
Although Pam’s now treated like a queen when she flies, the airline industry provides a never ending supply of jokes for Caroline Reid, the Australian-based comedian who claims to have grown up in a little castle at the end of an airport runway.
Listen as Pam Ann shares with us her favorite stewardess costume of all time and tells tales of faded air travel glory and what’s in her fantasy push cart, how the series Lost will really end and how to smuggle contraband on an airplane.
She’s also good friends with Australian Olympic gay hunk Matthew Mitcham and we wonder if he’ll be put on the box of Fruity Cheerios.
And Pam gives us the inside scoop on performing at Elton John’s birthday, hosting the Sydney Gay Parade with Joan Rivers, opening for Cher and what Madonna really thinks of her!
You can catch Pam Ann in Boston, Chicago, Denver, LA, San Francisco, Denver, Dallas, Houston Miami, Atlanta, DC, New York and the UK.
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Aemilia Scott and Mike Descoteaux from the Best Church of God play music from their show and reflect on the bizarre world of religion. Beyonce is set to perform in the Muslim city of Kuala Lumpur, will she be doing “Single Ladies” in a burqua?
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Today we have a very special musical treat for you- the hilarious Sister Aemilia Scott and Brother Mike Descoteaux, from the righteously outrageous Best Church of God- the only Church that has 110% approval rating from Jesus.
Every Sunday at 1pm at the Lakeshore Theater in Chicago they welcome everybody to their services, even the unborn.
Aemilia Scott works as a freelance writer, comedian and is a founding member of the Best Church of God. Mike is Artistic Director for the group and also the head of the Music Program at the esteemed Second City Training Center.
Listen as we contemplate all the world’s religions and discover why The Best Church of God is the perfect one for you.
Even former guest of Feast of Fun, Shirley Phelps, of the Westboro Baptist Church weighs in. What does the Borg Queen of Christianity have to say about these guys?
Beyonce is set to perform in the Muslim city of Kuala Lumpur, will she be doing Single Ladies in a burka?
A Malaysian ghost ravages young women in their dreams by conducting lewd acts in the nude.
Witch doctors put to death in Tanzania for killing albino people to capture their magical essence.
A man says the devil made him kill his wife and children and he now wants to be executed by the state because suicide is a sin.
And scientists announce the world’s first somewhat successful AIDS vaccine. Don’t throw out your condoms yet, the vaccine had a 31 percent success rate or a not so sexy 69 percent failure rate.
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Comedian Adam Guerino talks about how he’s usually the first gay man many straight guys meet and that after his performance they compellingly tell him “sorry guy, I’m not gay.” Hunters, a gay bar in the suburbs of Chicago implements a new rule asking customers to show ID that matches their “gender representation” in efforts to reduce prostitution at their bar.
On stage, openly gay comedian Adam Guerino performs his comedy about his romantic life and people’s anxieties about sex in front of mostly straight audiences.
Adam even says he’s usually the first gay man many straight guys meet and that after he performs he’s often approached by guys who feel compelled to say “sorry guy, I’m not gay.”
Why do straight men feel compelled to apologize for their heterosexuality when there’s not a sexual connection?
On today show we take a look at the gap that exists between all of us when it comes to sexual orientation- the common misconceptions straight guys have, awkwardness in public bathrooms and celebrities whose real life sexual antics are so outrageous, people have a hard time believing it’s true.
Hunters, a gay bar in the suburbs of Chicago, implemented a new rule that customers must show ID that matches their “gender representation” in an effort to reduce prostitution at the bar. As RuPaul says, “we all get up in the mooring and everything we put on after that is drag,” but what’s a suburban tranny to do if her real ID doesn’t match her drag?
London opens a gay tourism office- will they utilities new media or blow their wad on expensive traditional sources?
The man in China invents an Amphibious Bike.
Miss Manners tells you the proper way to address gay couples with the same last name.
and the Battle for the Internet begins- with Republicans and Corporations once again wanting to shut out everyone.
You can catch Adam at his day job at Scarlett or at these two great upcoming shows- Glitter Party and Art Haus.
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Singer Melissa Young joins us to take a look at the Madonna the entertainer, the woman and the iconoclast. A touching and colorful promise to a dead solider and hot celebrity news.
For almost three decades, Madonna has captured the imagination of the public by identifying where we needed to be pushed and ooh ooh, taking us there like a prayer.
Whether you’re crazy for her or annoyed by her expressing herself, you can’t deny the impact this beautiful stranger has had on all of us.
Today we dedicate the first part of our show to Madonna- the woman, the iconoclast, the musician.
Cabaret singer and Madonna expert Melissa Young joins us before she sets off on her own “Lucky Star” tour- a one woman show dedicated to the life and music of Madonna.
Madonna’s new video for her song “Celebration” does it right, featuring her die-hard fans videotaped at her concerts dancing to the beat. But the big highlight is the pop diva’s baby girl, Lourdes, all grown up and wearing the wedding dress big momma wore in her 80s video “Like a Virgin.”
Plus, Madonna’s gay brother Christopher Ciconne insults her latest hairstyle on TV- is he keeping it real or is he just really jealous?
Also in the news-
Terrible Patrick Swayze, Kanye West joke that’s involves Michael Jackson that’s making the rounds online
The touching and colorful promise to a dead solider.
True Blood Hunk for gay marriage.
Hollywood gay gossip from the 1950s.[via]
Nicole Kidman set to play a transsexual artist.
And we mourn the loss of musician Mary Travers and comedian Henry Gibson.
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Fausto and Marc talk about Jim Verraros and Bill Brennen’s fabulous gay wedding with comedian Bill Cruz. Also is the gay advertising industry pushing young gay men into man-orexia? Also Oprah hosts her talk show on the Michigan Avenue river bridge and David William’s controversial childrens book on a boy who likes to cross-dress.
The internet is still buzzing with this past weekend’s hottest event in town, the big gay wedding of American Idol finalist Jim Verraros and former ice skating champion Bill Brennan.
Didn’t get to go? Don’t worry! Today we’re taking you behind the scenes on the fabulous ceremony, the flowers, the family and the over the top ice sculptures.
Yes people, love is real.
Marc and I were pleasantly surprised when almost everyone we met at the wedding asked us when we were getting married. After all, isn’t this what most straight couples go through? We think it was pretty awesome, and glad the wedding, legal or not helped to expand people’s perceptions and make them expect the commonplace of same-sex unions. Way to go Jim & Bill!
Click here for photos of the wedding.
Today we’re joined by the very funny comedian Bill Cruz, who’s been trying to quit smoking and pick up a healthier lifestyle.
Being fit is great, but are we victim’s of unrealistic body images? The backbone of the gay advertising industry is hot men with the physiques of professional athletes but there is also a segment that features very thin male models, which prompts us to ask- are we pushing our young gay men into man-orexia?
Can you be too thin, too rich or too funny?
Also in the news:
Oprah hosts her talk show on the Michigan Avenue river bridge but did she really dye the Chicago River the Color Purple?
Little Britain’s David Walliams’ controversial book about a cross-dressing little boy is nominated for an award.
Pioneer gay rights attorney Albert Gordon is dead at 94.
Dragon Con tries to break Thriller Record even though people in Mexico recently tried but failed.
A hot guy in Louisiana is caught in an autoplex wearing panties and fishnet stockings.
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