Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show

Thirsty? Vivacious serves up a big tall glass of Drag Race juice as we kiki on Season 9. The trailer for Season 9 of RuPaul’s Drag Race triumphantly declares: “Drastic times call for drag-tastic measures.” Amen to that, RuPaul. These are drastic times indeed. What’s really drag-tastic for us is that there are more past guests of Feast of Fun on the new season of RuPaul’s Drag Race than ever before...

For a lot of gay men, being a drag queen is like being a comic book superhero – sooner or later, Clark Kent is going to have to tell Lois Lane that he puts on a cape and a fierce pair of red boots to tear it up in Metropolis. Today, we take a look at the trouble gay guys face when they have to tell someone they’re dating that they are a drag queen. Joining us is the she-larious San Francisco queen...

Conservatives get nervous about art, because great art inspires people to see the world in new ways, and challenges the status quo. So it’s no wonder Trump supporters and the National Rifle Association were up in arms when they heard one of the most progressive pop stars ever, Lady Gaga, was going to perform during the the Super Bowl Halftime show. In a breath-taking feat, Lady Gaga jumped off the...

You only have to look at ancient art and writings to know that among human beings, same-sex attraction has existed across time and cultures. Even in the animal kingdom, you’ll see beasts of all shapes and sizes acting like they’re ready to march in a Gay Pride parade. But in our culture, studying homosexuality comes with a lot of political and religious baggage so it’s difficult making sense of wh...

From hoo-ha to dingaling, from foo foo to weiner, in almost every family there’s no shortage of safe words parents come up with to describe private parts to their kids. In the family of award winning writer director Robert O’Hara, they called his fun stick “bootycandy,” so when he grew up he wrote a play called “Bootycandy” that tells the coming of age story of young boy who has to learn what it m...

One of the great challenges we face in bringing about political change is figuring out out how not to get overwhelmed by all the negativity we see in the news and our social media. As awful and terrifying as Trump and the Republicans are right now it’s easy for people to just tune out at a time when everyone needs to be paying close attention. As we’ve seen in the past, focusing on assets is the m...

The success of the 1994 Oscar Award winning film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, which told the story of three drag queens making the trek across Australia’s outback, helped ignite a modern style of drag filled with campy, self-deprecating fun and trans inclusivity. The film was turned into a Tony award winning Broadway musical and now our local Pride Films and Plays is putting i...

Like Pink Floyd’s The Wall, the Berlin Wall and the Great Wall of China, large walls often become symbols of authoritarian oppression. Donald Trump ran on the campaign promise to build a huge wall on the U.S./Mexico border and he recently signed an executive order to make it happen but can he really get it done? And who is going to pay for it? Today, writer Robyn Pennacchia joins us to take a look...

The last time we had cosplay drag queen Fox E. Kim on the podcast we had such a fun time talking about drugs, we had to have her back on to talk more on the subject – from flakka to crocodile to carfentanil. What are they, why would you take them and how can they kill you? The Oscars nominations are in and while they aren’t as white as last year, they are still pretty white overall, but at least o...

Dolly fashion, or as it’s better known in Japan as Lolita is all about putting babydoll dresses, frills and bows inspired by classic Victorian literature like Anne of Green Gables. Lolita may have started on the streets of Japan but now it has conquered the world. You can see it popping up everywhere at cosplay conventions and drag shows. Joining us to talk about Lolita fashion is Steven Lopez, wh...

Trump is now in the Oval Office so George W Bush- you can take a seat- you’re no longer the worst president ever. Now Trump promised to unite the country and maybe he can- after all, Madonna and Cher, who notoriously don’t get along, came together, along with hundreds of thousands of people for the Women’s March for America. At the rally, Madonna went a little too far with her Revolution of Love b...

When people ask about your age, it’s not usually because they are curious about your experiences, it’s likely they only want to judge how they have aged compared to you. So stop comparing yourselves to each other. Today we take a second look at one of our more popular shows, Guzzling from the Fountain of Youth. Listen as we examine some far out to totally sensible ideas on how to look and feel you...

Like all great art, popular films create their own world filled with such detail and nuance that it gets fans to come up with some amazing theories as to what’s really going on. Why were the Dursleys, Harry Potter’s adopted family, so mean to him? Why do Danny and Sandy take off in a car that flies through the sky at the end of Grease? And why does Biff Tannen in Back to the Future 2 bear a remark...

One of the most inventive musicians I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing is Sxip Shirey who grew up in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains and went on to became one of the world’s most beloved performers of unusual musical instruments. From the tampon applicator “tamponaphone” to a John Cage inspired Prepared Guitar, Sxip has traveled the world as a solo artist, circus performer and compos...

Drag Race All Stars 2 winner Alaska Thunderfun slithered into town to put on a fabulous show for her new album Poundcake (available on iTunes) and invited us onstage to be her sexy muscle daddy backup dancers for her song Chicken, which featured the clucking sounds of Miss Fame. We were delighted at the invitation, but got nervous when we realized it involved wearing skimpy wrestling singlets and...

Swanthula and Dracmorda Boulet, best known as the Boulet Brothers are ready to unleash nine horrific queens on each other as they claw their way to the title of the World’s First Drag Supermonster. Photo: the Boulet Brothers. October may be long gone, but the spirit of Halloween is still going strong in the Boulet Brothers’ new reality web series Dragula where a bunch of drag queens claw their way...

After a very long and divisive election year, a lot of us are dreading spending the holiday season with family members who don’t share the same values. Thanksgiving with a combative family can be rough, but it’s also a great opportunity to bridge the divide and give thanks for what you do have in your life. Today, we’re talking turkey with the very funny Carma Nibarger, a nurse who heals people wi...

One of the most extraordinary and she-larious drag queens we adore is Coco Peru who came of age during New York City’s AIDS crisis in the early 90s and after 25 years is still going strong. Coco just finished taping the pilot for her talk show Conversations with Coco financed through crowd funding where she raised an unprecedented $105,000. And if that’s not remarkable enough, her first guest is t...

Behind every great drag queen is a great woman- female entertainers who inspired them to be the outrageous drag queen we all love. Many queens cite Divine as a key influence on their drag, but the iconic drag queen herself was profoundly inspired by the great Liz Taylor. RuPaul drew inspiration from Diana Ross, and Lady Bunny certainly mirrored Dusty Springfield’s look and life except the eating a...

With the rise of internet media and reality television, thousands of people with modest artistic and entertainment careers are now finding themselves overwhelmed with success. Lady Gaga was right- fame is a monster: you lose friends and family over jealousy, you feel drained after too many gigs and are left wondering how you’re going to find the energy for your next project. You let the love you g...

One of the sweetest drag queens to ever come out of RuPaul’s Drag Race is Latrice Royale, who like Dr. Dre is straight out of Compton, or gay out of Compton. Amazingly, she’s survived it all: having two brothers caught up in gangs and then she served time in prison for possession of a small amount of marijuana and a single pill of klonopin. Today, Latrice Royale joins us to talk about her new albu...

We met Jonny McGovern and Lady Red Couture in person at the Austin International Drag Festival, and fell in love. There are very few people who cover the same things as we do, so we instantly clicked over our shared passion for the art of drag. Jonny and Lady Red recently premiered a new season of their hit Youtube talk show Hey Qween as well as unveiling a new website filled with more “gayest of...

In part two of “Brolitas, Bronies, Furries and Anime Queens” we continue chatting with Fox E Kim about Cosplay and how she was confused for a trans lesbian who supports Republican Carly Fiorina. Plus, Could Angela Bassett be the new Star Trek captain? Is Laverne Cox up to playing the iconic Frank N. Furter in Fox’s production of Rocky Horror.

Comic Book and Entertainment expos are drawing record crowds and a lot of fun loving folks who’ve been going for years are facing a new threat— horny fans who think they can do whatever they want to someone just because they are dressed up as a sexy comic book character. Our guest today is one of Chicago’s drag and cosplaying sensations, Fox E. Kim, gal pals with Drag Race cosplayer Dax Exclamatio...

Since the AIDS crisis of the late 80s, condoms have been urged as gospel for gay men to prevent the spread of HIV. But that’s all changing now with PrEP, the use of anti-HIV medication to keep HIV negative people from becoming infected. Despite the reality that we now have a powerful tool to eradicate the spread of HIV, many governments and agencies around the world are taking their sweet time to...