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TheManEater.com – By Theresa Berens
The lights were low Saturday night in Bengal Lair as performer Amanda Lay entered the stage in a pale blue party dress and white platform heels adorned with feathers.
Elizabeth Cook’s “Sometimes It Takes Balls …
ShowBizAndStyle.Inquirer.net – By Bayani San Diego Jr. – Philippine Daily Inquirer
Manila, Philippines – When Cebuano transsexual Raquela Rios first met Icelandic filmmaker Olaf de Fleur Johannesson online, she thought he was looking for romance, li…
Advocate.com – By Corey Scholibo – An Advocate.com exclusive
Advocate.com’s exclusive first look at Ang Lee’s new film Taking Woodstock includes this photo of Liev Schreiber, who plays Vilma, a drag queen who serves as a bodyguard during the Woodsto…
Citizen-Times.com – Jim Cavener – Take5 Correspondent
Billing a tense and graphic theater experience about a gay-bashing hate crime as a comedy has inherent risks.
Scapegoat Theatre Collective’s fine “Weldon Rising” is a case in point. The script…
NYTimes.com – By Karen Rosenberg
A drag queen named Taiwan is working the phone. His male lover has just proposed marriage, and Taiwan doesn’t know what to tell him. He calls his mother, then his grandmother, then a psychic hotline. He weighs church…
List.co.uk – Written by: Allan Radcliffe
The profile and representation of transsexuals may have received a boost in recent years from such acclaimed films as Boys Don’t Cry and Transamerica, but there are still few opportunities for transsexual act…
MetroWeekly.com – by Doug Rule
”Berliner Kabarett is like a musical quilt,” says the show’s director Christopher Gallu. ”It’s got all these songs that were never intended to be put together in a single night of theater.”
Bertolt Brecht, Kur…
EBAR.com – by Rachel Pepper
Femmes of Power: Exploding Queer Femininities by Del LaGrace Volcano and Ulrika Dahl; Serpent’s Tail, $40
Photographer Del LaGrace Volcano’s work burst onto the international queer scene in 1991 with the publication of…
Media.www.RoundUpNews.com – By: Jacob Divett
Two out of work actors try to cross-dress their way into a small fortune in the Las Cruces Community Theatre’s new play Leading Ladies, directed by Ceil Herman, which opened Friday.
Corey Dlask and Mat…
Xtra.ca – Aubrey Laufer
RuPaul is the latest powerhouse pop icon to take on the genre of our generation: reality TV. Here’s how Ru described her TV show RuPaul’s Drag Race: “Tell Tyra that the queen has returned, and while you’re at it have Heidi cl…