Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show

It’s hard to talk about the lives of LGBTQ+ people without talking about the nightlife scene where so many folks find their home. But for all the attention focused on Stonewall, Fire Island or PTown, most of queer experience, especially for trans and people of color, exists in spaces that most don’t even know about. In the new book Queer Nightlife, writer Kareem Khubchandani and a collection of ac...

Britney Spears, you’re in trouble girlfriend. Since the very beginning of her pop music career, Britney Spears’ life seems to have been in turmoil. And much like pop star Micheal Jackson’s experience growing up with a controlling father, Britney is railing against her own dad’s attempt to manage her finances and personal life. After the “Free Britney Movement” got new life with her heartbreaking p...

As the fog of the Covid Pandemic starts to clear, we’re left with even more questions about what happened. For example, why are folks still not wanting to get a covid vaccine? Some of these people who won't get vaccinated because they say “you just don't know what’s in it” are also the folks who will happily swallow a fistful of Oxycodone or take some Ecstasy they found on the floor of a nightclub...

The headline read: “Simon Cowell Fears The Worst If This Mother/Daughter Danger Act Goes Wrong.” Now we knew they wouldn’t show on America’s Got Talent our friend Gigi Deluxe shooting an arrow straight through her daughter’s head, but Gigi’s friends still held their breath as she shot arrows through balloons, inches away from her daughter's face. Way back in 2005, the gorgeous Gigi Deluxe was one...

Comedian Julia Scotti has been doing stand up all her life. In the 80s, Julia was a regular alongside other comedy legends like Ellen DeGeneres and Jerry Seinfeld who were just getting their start in the business. Julia’s raunchy humor was a hit on cable TV and she regularly opened for the day’s top musical acts. At the time, Julia identified as male but in 2000, she left comedy to begin her trans...

One of the things we adore about RuPaul’s Drag Race is how the show turns a group of drag queens fighting for the crown into an epic battle royale. And like all legendary shows, we’re left wondering what’s really happening behind all that glitter. Today, Ginger Minj, our favorite Broadway baby turned pageant queen and cross dresser for Christ joins us to give us a sneak peek at her new album “Swee...

From Washington to Obama, there’s always been some speculation about the love lives our nation’s leaders but what about affairs of the same sex kind? We're not sure if this same-sex kiss between Dubya and the Saudi Prince is legal under sharia law. Let’s face it, most ambitious men love attention, and that means having it come from just about anyone. And until the turn of the century, same-gender...

The term legend gets tossed around a lot in reference to drag entertainers, but it certainly fits the bill for the legendary Kelly Lauren. For over forty years, Kelly has been in a fixture in the drag scene. And she’s a winner baby! Kelly Lauren’s been crowned Miss Gay Houston, Miss Texas-USofA and the one crown to rule them all - Miss Continental. Kelly surprises and delights audiences with vampi...

Even though folks have been crossdressing for entertainment since the dawn of time, the rise of the modern drag queen can be traced back to a some relatively recent events and a few key artists. While American society in the 1960s was opening up to the many possibilities offered by the sexual revolution, a lot of drag artists took the art of female impersonation very seriously, and didn’t stray to...

After a lifetime of denying rumors of same sex affection in the Beatles, Paul McCartney recently landed a bombshell stating that he and John Lennon did in fact come together. Today we take a look at the secret gay lives of rock and roll legends from the UK- The Beatles, David Bowie, The Rolling Stones and Queen’s Freddie Mercury. Best of Feast of Fun, originally posted as FOF #2650 - The Secret Ga...

Gilbert Baker considered the flag an unfinished work of political art and encouraged others to design their own versions, like the Leather or Trans Pride Flags, so he never copyrighted the design. Unfortunately, some businesses and politicians have also used the flag as a selling point for their own agenda which doesn’t always align with queer liberation. Designer and Cooking with Drag Queens titl...

As America starts to nervously open up and hopefully overcome the Covid pandemic, it’s good to know that some things never change: Feast of Fun is still going strong and the outrageous comedian Matt Brown is back in person to give you a full dose of Gay Pride you didn’t think you could handle. Today, we are back in the home studio, in-person, face to face with comedian Ms Brown, Matt Brown if you’...

Happy Daddy’s Day! We’re all father figures to somebody! For comedian Bill Cruz, who was one of the first openly Latinx gay comedians on the comedy scene- you can call him papi! Covid’s been a tough gig for most comedians and for Bill, now that live shows are happening, it feels almost like starting all over again Today our dear friend comedian Bill Cruz, joins us to look at getting his groove bac...

One of our favorite things that pulled us through the last year was Sherry Vine and Jackie Beat’s parodies of sitcoms as if they had taken place during the covid pandemic. It’s been such a hit, Sherry Vine’s back with her twisted sisters bringing the laughs and cornball musical numbers with The Sherry Vine Variety Show on OutTV. Inspired by the great TV variety shows of the 1970’s, Sherry Vine and...

Even before the Covid pandemic hit there was a loneliness epidemic among LGBTQ+ folks. After many of us spent a year alone and now that restrictions start to lift, we’re all awkwardly coming together again. But like Hedwig sang in the Origin of Love “We don’t know who we are anymore.” So how do we get the help need? Today, Andrew Sartory, co-creator of the self help group Gay Man Thriving dedicate...

Princess Diana made international headlines in 1987 at the opening of the UK’s first HIV/AIDS unit at Middlesex Hospital when she shook hands with a patient who was dying from AIDS. In an era of AIDS hysteria, this ordinary gesture marked the first time a royal or a prominent politician knowingly made public physical contact with anyone living with HIV. This simple act placed her in stark contrast...

One of the most inspiring people we chatted with during the COVID pandemic is Hattie Retroage, the supermodel grandma. Hattie became a sensation after she appeared in a bathing suit alongside Claudia Schiffer in a Dolce and Gabbana magazine ad. This iconic moment in fashion propelled Hattie RetroAgeinto the zeitgeist where she became an outspoken advocate for cougars. Roar! Now that the world is o...

Karen Lewis’ big mouth is getting her into big trouble. Designed like a giant mouth with fangs for the Burning Man festival in 2005, Karen’s giant interactive sculptural bed is just waiting for some lucky owner to sink their teeth into it. Titled “The Bed in Your Head” this big bed piece of art looks like a set piece from a Rocky Horror Picture show themed Disney park ride. Measuring 11 x 13 feet,...

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a curse? Doing something great often comes with a heavy burden, because when you’re seen as divine, people expect miracles all the time. Just like the actors who have played Jesus on TV or film, the people who brought Superman to life have often been plagued with terrible misfortune. Henry Cavill, the latest to portray the Man of Steel on film, recently tore his lef...

When it comes to aging, nothing makes us laugh like Molly Shannon’s endearing Sally O’Malley character from SNL triumphantly stating “I’m proud to say I’m 50 years old, I’m not one of those gals who’s afraid to state her real age, and I like to kick, stretch and kick!” We love the character for embracing her silver years with panache. But for many gay men, aging can filled with fear and worry abou...

How many are in your party? For some people monogamy is just right, but for a growing number of people, open relationships is where they find true happiness. We are raised on fairy tales of a handsome prince rescuing a fair maiden and then they live happily ever after, but how close is this image to real life? As gay people, we try to reinterpret that image of monogamous marriage in our fight for...

A mother is anyone who channels feminine energy to nurture people and love them unconditionally. For many LGBTQ+ folks, we’ve had to seek out that energy when we didn’t get enough from our own mothers. Sometimes we found it in an auntie, a friend or mentor, but oftentimes, it was the divas in showbiz that raised us. From the singing divas like Eartha Kitt to Shirley Basey, to open lesbian stand up...

One of the more outrageous moments on Feast of Fun was back in 2009 when our friend Teri Yaki told us the tale of Lady Vera Parker, a drag queen who got getting arrested and pleaded guilty to fraud for posting fake apartment ads on Craigslist and stealing the security deposits from renters. When she was caught, Lady Vera Parker was living in a UHaul truck with all her drag. Local Chicago folks wer...

One of the most talked about episodes of our podcasts was this outrageous moment where Chicago drag queen Teri Yaki talked about the scandalous life of drag queen Lady Vera Parker. Here’s an encore presentation, enjoy! Drag queen Lady Vera Parker moved to Chicago with the hopes of making it big as an entertainer. Last week, her dreams were dashed when she was pulled over in U-Haul truck she allege...

Cryptocurrency: anything can be used as cash if you get creative enough. Cigarettes in prison, jugs of Tide detergent to pay your dealer, your body and soul at work, or cryptocurrency. When something is highly desired and in limited quantity, it can be used as money, honey. Cryptocurrencies use computing power to create a finite amount of coins, then rely on an online ledger with strong cryptograp...