“Once upon a time, there was a little Black girl…” announces LaWanda Page, spinning the tale of that little girl in the Brewster projects whose “modeling career took off” heard at the beginning of RuPaul’s iconic “Supermodel (You Better Work).” With those words–nostalgic to anyone who loves over-the-top queer dance music, Bronx-born performer NIC Kay … Continue reading
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Drifting Through Queer Utopian Memory: Mx Justin Vivian Bond’s “Golden Age of Hustlers” And “The Drift”
So when I choked up watching Mx Justin Vivian Bond’s recent “Golden Age of Hustlers” video, a cover of iconic transsexual singer and former Cockette Bambi Lake’s ode to hustlers in pre-AIDS 1970s San Francisco, I knew Bond hit on something significant to queer culture. Continue reading