Champagne Taste

MetroWeekly.com – by Doug Rule

Amanda Lepore prepares a toast to her future – and to a certain BeBar birthday boy

You might not believe it, but Amanda Lepore has only recently started to really put herself out there.

She’s always been out there, of course. For one, Lepore has been upfront and honest about being a male-to-female transsexual as early as high school, when the New Jersey native – born Armand – had a sex-change operation. ”That’s the first thing that I wanted to do,” explains Lepore, ”before breast implants or anything: I just wanted to have a vagina.”