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
As some of you observant readers may have noticed, I don’t often share my writing with other publications on this wondrously decadent blog of ours out of fear of becoming as queer theorist and former Chair of Performance Studies at New York University José Esteban Muñoz would call, using the biting words of Jack Smith, “a walking career.” … Continue reading