Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show

NOTE: This show was taped originally in 2013 before the Caitlyn Jenner came out as trans and changed their name. ====== {Originally posted as FOF #1882 - When Halloween Costumes Go Horribly Wrong - 10.17.13} Your Halloween costume says a lot about you, and if you’re dressing up as something sexy, chances are you’re a slut, and that’s ok. Today slut-expert Meredith Kachel joins us to navigate the c...

At the height of the AIDS crisis, Americans faced an uncertain future. Our healthcare system wasn’t prepared for a pandemic and Republicans in government were happy to watch people die. Sound familiar? During those heartbreaking times, artists made sense of the overwhelming despair by giving voice to the isolation people felt and they helped guide our communities forward through a world that had a...

If there’s anything we’ve learned from the COVID pandemic, besides never trusting a Republican ever again, is that the future is always uncertain, so fearlessly pursue your dreams. The last guest we had in person, in the home studio, before the big shutdown, was the delightful comedian Jake Noll who came on to talk about the big changes going on in their life. With uncertain doom looming around th...

It's almost serendipity that Scientology is all over the news with the very public divorce of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise. Many speculate that Holmes left Cruise to escape the oppressive, bizarre religion that she’s afraid would hurt her child. In recent years, many high ranking church officials have left Scientology due to their the homophobia, transphobia and all around general abuse. Now, write...

Break out the party hats and put on your mask for masks- this November marks the 10 year anniversary of PrEP, the revolutionary HIV prevention method that reduces the risk of contracting HIV even if you’re exposed to the virus. Just like birth control, the daily pill that effectively stops all new HIV transmissions has been met by the public with a lot of controversy. But the big question is “how...

Although drag queens are known for working the runway sweetie, who is to say the art of drag can’t make a twirl in your bakery display case? Okay. Yes girl, spin Miss Swiss Buttercream, frosted for the gods! Wait- you think drag and pastries don’t mix? They do if it’s DragCakes on Instagram. Created by pastry artist Josué Luciano, drag cakes are edible delights that pay homage to some of the great...

Behind every diva, inevitably there's a fabulous drag queen. Today we're talking to Christian Greenia, the man best known as Cassandra Fever, number one in command to Elvira- Mistress of the Dark! Cassandra Fever as Elvira with the real Elvira, Cassandra Peterson. Photo taken at L.A. Pride. For years, Christian has been working for the gal in the wig whose talents are big to help make the magic ha...

Halloween is just two week away folks, and you probably haven't even thought about what you going to wear. Unless you’re gay, which you probably are, and you decided sometime in right after Pride. But, if you're like most Americans, you don't have a lot of money to put it together. Lucky for you, we're joined today by sizzling drag queen Shea Coulee, who has worked retail in both costume and sex t...

How we think about gender identity and sexuality is evolving and some people are having a hard time keeping up with all the new language surrounding these new concepts. Our friend, Professor Larry La Fountain travels all over the world talking about LGBT people and Latin American culture and one of the most common questions he gets asked is: what is Latinx and how do you translate the word “queer”...

Folks are having a hearty laugh over President Trump getting hospitalized for testing positive for COVID-19, the deadly disease he said would go away like magic. Now Republicans are asking for compassion for the President, so at least we can all be on the same page as to how terrible this virus can be. Today comedian Matt Brown joins us to take a look at the complicated reactions people have to th...

Remember those tin cans you’d play with your friends as kids? Here’s a new podcasting experiment, where we tape a podcast live on location with queer Latinx studies professor Larry LaFountain, who’s best known to Feast of Fun listeners as Lola Von Miramar, the first drag queen to in our Cooking with Drag Queens video series. This fall marks the 10 year anniversary of Cooking with Drag Queens, the...

One of the the most talked about and parodied costumes any pop star has ever sported is the meat dress worn by Lady Gaga at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards. Mother Monster wore it to draw attention to the U.S. military ban on lesbian and gay service members. Time Magazine named it the top fashion statement of the year. Today we’re serving up butcher shop realness, talking to Franc Fernandez, the r...

When you're a drag queen, you’re timeless, well at least until your wig starts to break down and your makeup starts to crack at the end of the night. But time comes for us all, even the most legendary drag queens, and that doesn't always have to be a scary thing. When you get older, you’re hopefully able to see things in a bigger perspective and conjure up a little magic to make things exciting. O...

And now a public service announcement for public service announcements. Since World War II, the US government has been harnessing the power of the media to raise awareness about certain topics and to shape people’s behavior. Although some PSA’s are wildly ridiculous like trying to get people to eat healthy or to avoid using drugs, the reason these campaigns persist is because to some extent they a...

Sometimes the urge to write is so strong that you can’t wait for a publisher to show the world the masterpiece in your mind. Thankfully in the digital age it’s easy to self publish but who exactly is going to read a book titled “This Hoe Got Roaches Up in Her Crib?” In the new podcast “The Hood Novel Book Club” comedian Rachel Hall looks at wonderfully weird books about the modern black experience...

Neil Patrick Harris won a Tony Award for starring in Hedwig and the Angry Inch on Broadway, but we all know the real star is the spectacular wig design of Mike Potter. The task of styling these magnificent wigs for the show goes to legendary NY drag queen Perfidia, or as Facebook likes to call her, Steven Perfidia Kirkham, who you may know from the documentary Wigstock or the YouTube video we did...

It’s hard to imagine Disney without it’s iconic animated musicals, but in the 80s after several box office bombs, Disney considered never making animated musicals again. Thankfully, after playwright and lyricist Howard Ashman’s breakthrough success with his oddball musical comedy Little Shop of Horrors, Disney asked Ashman to work with them and The Little Mermaid, a film that became so successful...

Knock Knock! Who’s there? Phyllis. Phyillis who? Phyillis your Census form! Have you signed up for the 2020 Census? If you didn't, the Golden Girls reboot has a message for you- fill out the census and get counted for the government services your community deserves. In a Zoom Where it Happens virtual watch party, with openly queer Hollywood writer Lena Waithe as the host and narrator, legendary la...

I think I know what love is, it's DeAundra Peek! Yaaaaaaay. Before YouTube and the Internet, people used to record their favorite cable access shows onto VHS cassette tapes in order to pass them along to their friends in other cities. One show that thrived outside of its home market of Atlanta, GA was “DeAundra Peek’s Teenage Music Club” where a very special drag queen, DeAundra Peek, would enthus...

RuPaul and DeAundra Peek back in the mid 80s in Atlanta Georgia. Photo: Rosser Shymanski After our podcast with DeAundra Peek, remained on the line to continue talking about how she got her start on the Atlanta based cable access program “The American Music Show,” which also featured a very young RuPaul. Listen as we chat at about the incredible drag scene of Atlanta in the 80s that gave birth to...

The club scene in New York City in the 80s was an incredible time for live music: Punk, Pop, the second British Invasion, and Heavy Metal bands dominated a scene where people had plenty of free time and lots of great drugs to take it all in. At the center of this incredible world was Michael Alago, a music superfan who became one of the biggest names in music, despite being a young queer Puerto Ri...

Listen to the sound of my voice. You are getting very, very excited. We are in total control of the horizontal, the vertical, but especially the horizontal. We can make things boring, or fabulously exciting. When people think of hypnotism, a lot of them conjure up the idea of a malevolent force like Dracula trying to get them to do their bidding. But in reality people turn to hypnotism to live bet...

It’s Madonna’s birthday and it’s also the anniversary of the day Elvis Presley died. But does their connection go deeper than that? Making the rounds again on the internet is an old archive image of a young woman bearing an uncanny resemblance to the queen of pop, trying to get close to Elvis, the King of Rock and Roll. The black and white photo taken in 1970 in front of the Olympia Theater is hot...

James St. James next to photos of his club kid days in NYC. Photos courtesy of James St. James. Youth gay culture is exploding online and in high schools everywhere. Just take a look at our community forums here at Feast of Fools. Youth gay culture, GLBT teens, or whatever words you want to use to use to describe it: teenagers all over the United States are speaking up, talking about their sexual...

It’s been a huge year for drag queens and their fans, not just with RuPaul’s Drag Race’s move to a major cable channel, but also with the many web series and reality TV shows featuring drag artists- Dragula, Celebrity Big Brother, Trixie and Katya Show and of course Cooking with Drag Queens are all serving up piping hot drag goodness. So why are people saying drag is not the shiny happy party it p...