Thousands gathered in San Francisco this week to remember and celebrate the life of drag impresario Heklina, who died suddenly April 3 while in London for a show with Peaches Christ. Heklina graced many Out...
‘Faux Queen: A Life in Drag’
- May 18, 2023
- Tagged as: AIDS, cisgender, drag, Fauxnique, feminism, humor, LGBTQ, Monique Jenkinson, queer, Trannyshack, transgender
Monique Jenkinson, a.k.a. Fauxnique, was the first cisgender woman to win the Miss Trannyshack Pageant in 2003, raising many glittered eyebrows in consternation and launching a performance career that has taken her around the globe....
Dwayne Ratleff grew up Black, poor and gay in 1960s Baltimore. As a youngster, his loving grandma taught him: āDonāt explain yourself, be yourself.ā Ratleff has written an impressive, insightful, award-winning novel ā a memoir really...
According to author and academic Kathryn Bond Stockton, āgender is queer for everyone.ā She doesnāt mean “queer” only in the LGBTQIA+ sense — she means the dictionary definition: strange. āGender is strange,ā she writes,ā even...
Quick, what’s your sexuality? Most of us know roughly where we fall on the Kinsey scale that goes from zero (totally straight) to six (flaming faggot or butchest of dykes). But have you considered another...
When musician and educator Nick Lawrence shared his story with me, I understood “transgender” like never before. His album “I Am a Man” is about his personal journey. In original songs and in our intimate...