June 21, 2007
Jay reads at NYC's Tenement Museum June 26
Still dancing like Emma Goldman... Jay reads his essay from a new anthology on Lower East Side activism. Tuesday, June 26, 6:00-8:00PM at the Tenement Museum Visitors Center, 108 Orchard Street at Delancey Street, NYC.
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Queens of the Catskills: Casa Susanna
The 1990s belonged to the drag queen. RuPaul became a media star and two drag films, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, grabbed heartland America by the short hairs. Their plots are similar: A trio of transvestites ventures into a rural area and shakes up country folk who never saw a man tottering on high heels. By the final scene, the interlopers have provided not only makeup tips, but also a lesson in compassion. Roll credits.
Pure Hollywood fiction? Guess again. Four decades before Patrick Swayze donned a wig and eyeliner in To Wong Foo, rural Greene County was home to a sorority of male cross-dressers.