San Francisco drag queen Anna Conda, longtime gay rights activist talks about the Great Nationwide Kiss-In happeing all across America to celebrate same sex affection and draw attention to the everyday violence gay people experience.
This Saturday in cities all across America gay loving people and their friends will be holding the Great Nationwide Kiss-In, to celebrate LGBT love in all it’s lovely forms and to draw attention to the sad reality that for same sex couples kissing in public spaces can be dangerous.
We’re talking to longtime Anna Conda, San Francisco drag queen, longtime gay rights activist and fabulous Miss Trannyshack 2004!
Anna helps us to take a look at the power you have in your hands to bring about social change. How do we unchain the bloodthirsty tiger of Justice and Equality?
Be sure to check out the action happening in your city. Here’s a guide to participating in a political kiss-in.
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Keep Equality away from the gays (also known as Protect Marriage) in Washington State lost their case to keep donors privacy. Do donors have the right to keep their hate a secret?
Max, the world’s oldest dog turns 26. Happy birthday cutie!
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I love having celebrities in my hotel room. On today’s show we’ve got three delicious stars in our penthouse suite at the Hotel Mark Twain in San Francisco- Peaches Christ, Heklina, and Lady Miss Kier!
The three of them, along with a multitude other fabulous performers will be working the stage on Saturday night at the Trannyshack Final Kiss-OFF Party, a big adieu to the weekly club show that has influenced drag queens for over 12 years.
But as they say in show business, nothing ever really dies. Will “Lash Out” be the next project in the works or will Trannyshack continue in a different form?
Lady Miss Kier is best known as the lead singer and co-producer for the mega-hit band DEEE-LITE, who’s songs “Groove is in the Heart” and “What is Love” defined the sound for a whole generation. Today their music still gets an enthusiastic response from people everywhere.
As an art director and fashion designer her influence was felt throughout the 90s in club kid fashion, video and in graphic design.
Join us for an intoxicating fun show as we dish it up with Heklina and Peaches Christ about the final night of Trannyshack in San Francisco, the impact of Dee-Lite’s music, and living in the 1990’s
What is fabulousness? Feast of Fools.
[Originally posted on08.22.08]
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Musician Jill Sobule created this delicious music video featuring a lot of San Francisco treats, including La Monistat who we interviewed on today’s show, and her biological female look-alike, comedian Margaret Cho.
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Although San Francisco drag queen La Monistat was named 2009’s Best Drag Queen by the readers of SF Weekly, she still considers herself an outsider to the drag world.
With her flair for performance art, self expression and crazy blood soaked costuming, she isn’t your everyday queen on the scene.
La Monistat says she was invited to be a contestant in the first season of Rupaul’s drag race but she declined. Now, why wouldn’t a rising drag queen want the publicity?
On today’s show we’re talking to Dino Socco- the fierce drag queen that is La Monistat!
She’s in Chicago checking out all of the delicacies offered at the California’s Day of Decision and the skinny on Chi Chi LaRue’s new look and music video which mocks Rupual. Does Chi Chi really hate RuPaul or is this just a publicity stunt?
All this and the state of drag after Trannyshack, one of the nation’s longest running drag shows, is no longer a weekly event.
You can catch LaMonistat every Tuesday for Chaser at The End Up in San Francisco.
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Just because the economy is in the bidet doesn’t mean that you can’t have any fun.
On today’s show we have America’s lovable gay concierge Kevin Thomas, sharing his ideas on how to save money during this economic downturn and support the arts all at the same time.
Cheap great shows to see in San Francisco, Chicago and New York. In San Francsico it’s the all-drag queen live version of the Golden Girls, starring Heklina as Bea Arthur and in Chicago, Amy Armstrong’s Christmas Show is available now for free. Listen for details.
We talk with Kevin about his love for Barbara Streisand, her greatest hits, her biggest bombs and why the Way We Weren’t Wasn’t.
Plastic Surgery for Dead people, a real-life feline cat burglar, some wild holiday gift ideas for the wealthy and Kevin shares with us his saddest christmas memory ever. You won’t believe it.
The extra sparkle in your holiday magic- Feast of Fools.
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Rick Stokes did what almost every gay man in Kansas did back in the 1950s- he got married to a woman. His wife knew that he had a number of gay experiences before they got married but whether it was naivety or wishful thinking, they thought his desire for a gay life would go away.
When his desires wouldn’t abate, his family, his wife and his in-laws convinced him to undergo electro shock therapy to cure him. After many treatments and with no guarantee of success, Rick opted out of this unusual treatment and ended his marriage. But he says later it was the kick in the pants he needed to help him to chase his own rainbow colored dreams.
He moved to Sacramento, CA to find the man who he would eventually spend 35 years with. Along with his partner, Rick formed the Association for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) to provide social interaction and to promote pro-gay action.
They group provided a place for people to feel good about being gay and to accomplish pro gay activities. One such activity was to raise awareness about STDs like gonorrhea or syphilis which were very common but were little understood by gay men or even by their doctors.
The pair eventually moved to San Francisco and became involved in the gay scene. Having acquired a law degree, Rick became well known as the “go to” guy if you got busted by the police for what were punishable offenses back in the day. Often times, people arrested for what was considered lewd behavior pleaded down to a lesser crime in order to reduce the risk of being found out and losing work. Rick convinced people to not “plead out” their cases but to go to trail. Eventually, the court system figured out that they weren’t go to win any of these cases so the police stopped targeting gay men.
Rick later ran against Harvey Milk for Supervisor seat in 1977 and lost. He will be portrayed by in the upcoming film “Milk” by Stephen Spinella, an openly gay actor known for his role in Angels in America and Spring Awakening on Broadway.
Listen as we talk with Rick about the horrors of being electrocuted in attempts to change your sexuality, working for gay rights in America at a time when being gay as illegal and where we are all headed in our fight for sexual diversity.
You have the right to remain fabulous- Feast of Fools.
[Originally posted on 08.28.08]
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PART 2 – After a decade of being the Nation’s longest running drag show, Heklina and her friends decided to call it quits and throw a final kiss-off party for all the fans of Trannyshack.
Interviewers:…
PART 1 – After a decade of being the Nation’s longest running drag show, Heklina and her friends decided to call it quits and throw a final kiss-off party for all the fans of Trannyshack.
Interviewers:…
Fausto Fernos tackles one of the long awaited questions, is drag legend Lady Bunny illiterate? Can she write and read her own name? Find out, plus Dee-Lite’s Lady Miss Keir sings an alternate version of…
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Rick Stokes did what almost every gay man in Kansas did back in the 1950s- he got married to a woman. His wife knew that he had a number of gay experiences before they got married but whether it was naivety or wishful thinking, they thought his desire for a gay life would go away.
When his desires wouldn’t abate, his family, his wife and his in-laws convinced him to undergo electro shock therapy to cure him. After many treatments and with no guarantee of success, Rick opted out of this unusual treatment and ended his marriage. But he says later it was the kick in the pants he needed to help him to chase his own rainbow colored dreams.
He moved to Sacramento, CA to find the man who he would eventually spend 35 years with. Along with his partner, Rick formed the Association for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) to provide social interaction and to promote pro-gay action.
They group provided a place for people to feel good about being gay and to accomplish pro gay activities. One such activity was to raise awareness about STDs like gonorrhea or syphilis which were very common but were little understood by gay men or even by their doctors.
The pair eventually moved to San Francisco and became involved in the gay scene. Having acquired a law degree, Rick became well known as the “go to” guy if you got busted by the police for what were punishable offenses back in the day. Often times, people arrested for what was considered lewd behavior pleaded down to a lesser crime in order to reduce the risk of being found out and losing work. Rick convinced people to not “plead out” their cases but to go to trail. Eventually, the court system figured out that they weren’t go to win any of these cases so the police stopped targeting gay men.
Rick later ran against Harvey Milk for Supervisor seat in 1977 and lost. He will be portrayed by in the upcoming film “Milk” by Stephen Spinella, an openly gay actor known for his role in Angels in America and Spring Awakening on Broadway.
Listen as we talk with Rick about the horrors of being electrocuted in attempts to change your sexuality, working for gay rights in America at a time when being gay as illegal and where we are all headed in our fight for sexual diversity.
You have the right to remain fabulous- Feast of Fools.
Check out our sponsors:
Steamworks Gym, Sauna and Baths.
Visit Steamwork’s website and register to get a discount
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Hotel Mark Twain
Gay Friendly. Bear Friendly. People Friendly.
Call direct at: (415) 673-2332
and ask for the FEAST rate.
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