Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show

Chris Crocker turned to the internet to escape the torment of being chased by gangs of boys at the mall. The internet helped him connect with the greater world around him when he couldn’t create a gay-straight alliance in his school and he left to be home schooled. To grow up a gay, eccentric and flamboyant teen has never been easy especially in a small conservative town in Tennessee. If it weren’...

With the high visibility of drag queens on TV and social media and (even this podcast) there’s an idea that drag is just another form of show business, but it’s so much more. For Puerto Rican queens or “Locas” as they are known, the call to do drag often stems from the pressure to survive as an artist in a very dangerous world. Larry La Fountain’s new book Translocas: the Politics of Puerto Rican...

With all the challenges we’ve faced in recent years it feels like we’ve all grown closer together yet sometimes it also feels like we’re a million miles apart. Like Paula Abdul sang once, we take two steps forward, two steps back. So how do we come together when opposites attract? When comedian Kate Willett suddenly found herself wanting to date men again after getting divorced from a woman she wo...

What’s going on with Zac Efron’s face? In a video promoting Bill Nye’s new environmental awareness project “Earth Day the Musical” fans were left gasping when el Zac appeared in the video looking like he had botched plastic surgery. I’m going to need more lip gloss to gloss these lips. Today we dig in deep to find out what happened to Zac Efron’s face. Plus so much delicious pop culture goodies: ➤...

Sesame Street is one of the most influential television programs of all time. Premiering in 1969, its profound legacy impacted generations. Millions of children and adults were both educated and entertained as they watched a world that embraced diversity and inclusiveness. And lovable grouches who live in garbage cans. In 2009 we had the pleasure of interviewing biographer Michael Davis, author of...

Tiger King- the true crime story reigned supreme as the 2020 pandemic documentary series on Netflix. The tale about an eccentric group of private zoo owners battling it out over who would be king of the caged jungle cat captivated the world at a time we all felt trapped in cages ourselves. It was so wildly popular that it is now getting a dramatic series produced by everyone’s favorite lesbian Kat...

HRH Princess Diandra has an amazing drag career impersonating her first love Diana Ross. But she also relishes channelling the other two great entertainers in her Holy Trinity- Tina Turner and Patti Labelle. As much as Princess Diandra loves her divas, she cuts them no slack. She’d just as soon come for those ladies that the “HRH” in her title might as well stand for “Honey, Read Her!” PRINCESS DI...

The Bachelor reality TV franchise is a top show with American conservatives because it reinforces antiquated ideas of love where 12 people go at each other’s throats for the top prize, a hand in marriage to a random stranger. As the most heteronormative show on tv with the blandest contestants, it came as a bit of surprise when Colton Underwood, one of the series’ top contestants came out as gay,...

Sister Act, the 1992 musical comedy starring Whoopi Goldberg, is a favorite classic for many LGBTQ+ folks, afterall, who can't relate to a larger than life figure who has to find their own special world to protect themselves from dangerous forces? Today Alexandra Gray, drag entertainer from the Hall Dynasty, daughter of the legendary Tajma Hall and sister to Drag Race winner Jaida Essence Hall joi...

A lot of us who love drag, love it because because it channels the spirit of those wild, outrageous women who embrace their rebellious side and point their middle finger at what the world wants them to be. Today. Peaches Christ, San Francisco’s drag impressario and cult film fanatic joins us to take a look at movies with wild women who don’t give a fuck. Listen as we look at sexploitation and hags...

While there are a lot of similarities between the AIDS crisis of the late 80s and today’s Covid pandemic, one thing that’s been hard for a lot of people is not being able to meet up for a little hanky panky, not even get a little kiss. Well, pucker up lovers, cause that’s all about to change. Health experts are saying that at this point in the pandemic, a kiss is once again just a kiss, and like A...

“Love is love” became the rally cry of the modern LGBTQ+ movement, declaring that love is universal among all people. But in the past, the love that dared not speak its name found other ways to express itself in photography. Photography allowed loving couples to document their relationship even if they had to hide the pictures away in drawers or books for fear of being discovered. Thankfully, phot...

A great entertainer says what we’re all feeling, and since it’s been a hell of a year, Lil’ Nas X hung up his adorable pink cowboy hat and traded it for a skin tight bondage getup to ride a stripper pole to hell. Lil Nas X’s new music video Montero has everything: he plays all the characters in a magical biblical world, Adam in the Garden of Eden, the seductive serpent, his own judge and judy cond...

Everyone expected 1984 to be a strange dystopian future, but it turned out to be an amazing year for pop culture with Tina Turner reigning supreme as the Queen of Rock and Roll. Although the press described Tina Turner’s chart topping album Private Dancer as a comeback, Tina considered it her debut album, free from the control and abuse she faced from her ex-husband Ike Turner. In the new document...

At one point in time bodybuilder Janae Marie Kroczaleski was known as the “world’s strongest man” for hitting the world record in powerlifting- Janae’s 220 pound body lifted a jaw dropping one and a quarter tons of pure iron in bench press, deadlift and squat. When Janae was outed as trans, it sent shockwaves through the powerlifting and bodybuilding world and made many folks reconsider, for the f...

When people who didn’t go to Catholic school think of nuns they immediately think of the classic Sound of Music, the silly Flying Nun or movies like Sister Act which all have misfits trying their best to fit into a world stacked up against them. But in real life, there’s been nuns like Jeannine Deckers The Singing Nun with the hit song “Dominque” who struggled with drugs and debts later in life or...

When it comes to murder, entertainers are usually at the recieving end of the violence. But celebrities are just like us, and some of them have commited stone cold homicide. As a follow up to our previous two podcasts with drag queen Peaches Christ on actors who were killed (FOF #2383 – Hollywood Real Life Murders) and actresses who were murdered (FOF #2217 – Peaches Christ True Horror), Peaches j...

Happiness in life comes from figuring out what you love to do and then making it your profession. Our friend 81 year old Hattie Retroage was born to be a healer, so she made it happen as a dance instructor, a therapist or in the bedroom as a senior sex symbol. Years ago, Hattie stole the spotlight from Claudia Schiffer in a Dolce and Gabbana ad with her silver sexiness and since then she’s become...

The world has long been filled with secret hiding spots where what could not be expressed in public, could be enjoyed away from the prying eyes of others. Like minded folks could almost always meet for a grand encounter at almost any secluded park, rest stop or private stall. Even in places as populated as New York City, there was always a place you could go where nobody knows your name, but they’...

In the mid 80s, at the height of the AIDS crisis, New York City experienced a drag revolution. Cheap rent, fabulous clubs and a wide variety of people from all around the world living shoulder to shoulder, and girdle to girdle, created a drag explosion that released a mega ton of glitter and talent, leaving in its wake a culture that embraced drag like never before. In the center of the action was...

It’s the 20 year anniversary of To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, the unusual film that came out on the heels of the very successful Priscilla Queen of the Desert. To Wong Foo put three A-list actors in full drag but unlike Priscilla, we bareley saw the drag queens out of drag as human beings, which gave the whole film a very surreal feel. On top of that, the beginning and end of t...

We’ve all been on horrible dates- hopeless purgatories where you wonder why you’re spending the evening with this person when you could be home organizing your sock drawer instead. Before the internet, social people often kept little black books to record the dates they went on, to remember how good or bad they were and if they got a little tail or not. Writer Eddie Campbell took his little black...

In 2009, we had the pleasure of interviewing Debbie Reynolds about her life in Hollywood, her one woman show and her deep bond with her daughter Carrie Fisher. In 2011, we also had the pleasure of chatting with Carrie Fisher at her own one woman show, Wishful Drinking. We were inspired by her courage and humor in talking so candidly about her life. Tragically, Carrie Fisher was traveling home to C...

During the early months of the Coronavirus Pandemic, folks were comparing it to the Spanish Flu of 1918, saying that at the end of the pandemic, it would be just like the Roaring 20s all over again- we’d roll our stockings down, rouge up our knees and all that jazz. So why don’t we feel like dancing the Charleston just yet? Today, Dr. Steven Thrasher, professor of journalism and LGBTQ Health at No...

Bye bye Baba Wawa! Pioneering journalist, talk show host Barbara Walters put rumors to rest by announcing on her show The View that she’s planning to retire soon from being in front of the cameras, but will continue to be involved behind the scenes. Thanks for all the awesome interviews girlfriend! You opened up the field to everyone, and inspired us and many others to a talk show. Today comedian...