Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show

The Emmy Award winning TV series Breaking Bad did a wonderful job of taking us into the seedy underbelly of America’s dysfunctional relationship with drugs, specifically crystal meth. Although we got to see the dramatized world of Mexican Drug Cartels, sex workers, young addicts and drug kingpins, Breaking Bad never showed us the gay side of meth- how gay men use the drug to break down inhibition...

t’s a lot of fun to hang out with a strong sassy woman who doesn’t take crap from any one. Sassy divas can make the best friends, but don’t always make the best mothers. Today we’re talking to video blogging sensation Miss Lola Rose. When her two kids came out as gay, she panicked and asked them to remain in the closet to keep up appearances. Since then, Lola’s come about 180 degrees and fully sup...

Love B. Scott began their career on YouTube making video blogs where they greeted their fans with the now legendary catch phrase "Hey Love Muffins, it's B. Scott!" This week the Black Entertainment Television (BET) network promoted Love B Scott to producer status, making them the first trans/non-binary producer in the media network's long history. Please enjoy this "Best of Feast of Fun" encore pr...

No other Hollywood diva has captured the imagination of gay men quite like Joan Crawford. Most people credit Faye Dunaway’s melodramatic portrayal in Mommie Dearest for turning Joan into a high camp icon that’s still on everyone’s mind, even though Miss Crawford died in 1977. Today, writer John Hamilton joins us to talk about his new book Mommie Smearest, which brings the Hollywood legend back fro...

One thing that’s helping us during the covid pandemic is all the great streaming TV shows featuring queer and racial diversity like never before. And amazingly enough, Feast of Fun is on a very special episode of MTV’s Teen Mom. And we didn’t even have to get anyone pregnant! Today MTV’s Teen Mom producer Kerthy Fix joins us to take a look at all the great stuff on television that’s keeping us fro...

At the young age of 17, James Curry hoped to escape a hostile home by enlisting in the Marines, and ended up right in the middle of the terrible War in Iraq. James survived his tour of duty by hiding being gay under the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy, but then after returning to civilian life, lost his first boyfriend and ended up homeless. Despite these setbacks, James was determined to make somethi...

In a move that undoubtedly made some folks’ heads explode like a potato in the microwave, Hasbro announced that the Potato Head toys are gender neutral and that everyone is “welcome in the Potato Head world.” The toys will let kids create their own type of potato family and they’ll be able to mix and match gender attachments like red lips, purses and moustaches. The announcement has us looking bac...

Television writer Russell T Davies, best known for his pioneering “Queer as Folk” and the “Dr. Who” reboot, says he’s seen just about every televised drama about gay men and AIDS. And now his new series “It’s A Sin,” which chronicles the lives of six friends living in London at the start of the AIDS crisis, has just become the most-watched drama ever on Britain’s Channel 4. The show is celebrated...

Alison Arngrim is loved and feared by people all over the world for playing Nellie Oleson on one the most popular TV shows of all time, Little House on the Prairie. Although the series mostly focused on Laura Ingalls family’s struggle to make it on a farm in the late 1800s, one of the main reasons the show was so popular was the classic battle between good and evil that took place between the whol...

One of the unexpected surprises from “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” the documentary film on Mr. Rogers, was just how fierce and unapologetically gay in real life is Francois Clemmons, the actor who played Officer Clemmons on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. Francois joined the pioneering children’s TV show as a young man and spent decades playing Officer Clemmons. As one of the first African Americans to...

A lot has happened since author Dr. E Patrick Johhnson first came on the podcast a decade ago to talk about his groundbreaking book “Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South” – a collection of more than sixty life stories from black gay men who were born, raised and continue to live in the South. Johnson’s book won various literary awards, got turned into a solo stage show which he performed and now...

Southern Hip Hop music is legendary for its drum machine beats, a thunderous bassline, and shouting vocals that bring you into the moment in all its glory. It’s a fun and uproarious art form that draws inspiration from big celebrations like Mardi Gras parades and relies on the audience for call and response participation. Yoohoo we have a call on the line! Who is it? It’s KC Ortiz, the Queen of So...

With the premiere of Russell T Davies’ new series “Its a Sin” about the the lives of a group of gay men and their friends who lived during the HIV/AIDS crisis in the United Kingdom during the early 80s, we thought it would be great to repost our interview with writer Victoria Noe. Victoria Noe’s book “Fag Hags, Divas and Moms” looks at the extraordinary women who helped people survive and handle t...

One of the great treasures (diamonds in the rough) on Disney’s streaming service is the reality TV show Encore, which reunites the cast members from musicals they originally performed in high school and then has them recreate the big show, sometimes decades later, in front of a live audience. Created and hosted by Broadway legend Kristen Bell, each episode of Encore forces former high school thesp...

It’s Fat Tuesday! The streets of New Orleans are spookily empty as folks wisely stay home to help to bring an end to the Rona pandemic, but it doesn't mean we can’t safely celebrate from our home with our good gal pals like Mystique Summers, from Season 2 of RuPauls’ Drag Race. Mystique’s been part of an intense discussion last week when she and her sister in RuPaulia, Nina Bonina Brown, had a con...

For 13 seasons RuPaul’s Drag Race has been bringing underground artists into the mainstream, and sometimes the world is just not ready for the gag. This time, the latest greatest gasp for air is a t shirt designed by drag queen Gotmik which prominently displays the scars from their top surgery. Oooh, you got controversy! Gotmik's t shirt alludes to the famous “boobs on a t-shirt” design that Vivie...

Farwell to queer musician Ari Gold, New York night life personality, star in Starbooty and child singer in the My Buddy doll commercial that later became the inspiration for Chucky in the horror film Child’s Play. He died on February 12, 2021. This podcast was originally posted on 01.31.08 All systems are go! Pop musician Ari Gold joins us on todays show to “drop” his new album Transport Systems,...

Love is hell! Valentine’s Day is almost upon us and while we are happily in love- it wasn’t always the case. We had to go on some really bad dates and kiss a lot of frogs before finally catching a prince. Today, comedian and former Korean talk show celebrity Vickie Eisenstein, joins us to talk about the weird dates she had while living in Korea. Vickie now performs in the acclaimed Improvised Jane...

With Britney in the news again and the Netflix documentary "Framing Britney Spears" captivating audiences we thought we'd give an encore presentation of one of Britney's biggest fans, Chris Crocker, who went viral in 2007 for his "Leave Britney Alone" video. ___________ Chris Crocker turned to the internet to escape the torment of being chased by gangs of boys at the mall. The internet helped him...

A common criticism of self help gurus like Oprah Winfrey and The Secret’s Rhonda Byrne is that their advice typically not only overlooks systemic inequality, it justifies it by laying blame on the person suffering. If you didn’t have those gloomy thoughts, you’d be sleeping on a bed of diamonds! But studies show that the best thing people can do to make their dreams come true is to fall in love wi...

In the late 1970s radio stations were in revolt, declaring Disco music dead, culminating in the notorious Disco Demolition night at Comiskey Park, a promotional event that backfired into a full-on riot. “Disco Sucks” became the battle cry against the decadence of the club scene, its association with gay culture and because the music genre was overexposed- people got sick of the disco beat in bubbl...

It’s the 16th anniversary of Feast of Fun- one of the first shows to kick off the podcast revolution. But honey, just because you’re revolting, does not make it a revolution! What started out as an experiment to capture some of the magic of our live musical variety shows where drag queens and kings, musicians, performance artists and comedians came together to let their freak flags fly freely went...

The early 90s was an exciting but difficult time to be a queer person in the United States. The AIDS crisis was still claiming so many lives and after 8 years of President Regan not even mentioning the word AIDS and 4 years of President Bush’s inaction, LGBTQ folks felt invisible, and our visibility was a matter of life and death. In the spirit of making a political statement, and shocking the squ...

Some names are just begging to be adopted by drag queens, kings and other colorful shape shifters: Robin Banks, Poo Ping, Ima Hogg, Peter Gozinya or Izzy Hung. So what happens when two drag queens in the same city come up with the same name at the same time? Who gets to keep the exclusive rights to the name? Today San Francisco drag queen Nicki J!zz, that’s Jazz with I, joins us to tell us how a q...

What they didn’t tell us in grade school about George Washington Carver is that he came across as unapologetically queer-Carver spoke to the flowers every morning, he shared a bed with his male lover and he rubbed out the sore muscles of college athletes with his therapeutic hot peanut oil massage. Today comedian Matt Brown joins us to look at the scientist and mystic, George Washington Carver- hi...