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The drag entertainer Shane Jenek, better known to the world as Courtney Act, has lived a pretty remarkable life and she’s just getting started.

A front runner on season 6 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Courtney’s season included many memorable people and moments that became a big part of queer culture.

But it wasn’t all fun, glitter and games. The show had issues with its lack of trans representation which put Courtney in the awkward situation of getting blocked by host RuPaul on Twitter for speaking out against the silent ban.

Ironically, today gender is more fluid than ever, and it feels like all the contestants on Drag Race are either trans or non binary.

Today Australian sensation Courtney Act joins us to give us the inside scoop on writing her new book Caught in the Act: A Memoir by Courtney Act

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Listen as we talk with Courtney about falling in love with a sexy construction worker in Chicago.

➤ How she won the hearts and minds of Britain on Celebrity Big Brother UK

➤ Finding out her dad was no stranger to drag himself!

Episode #3057

Right now there are 184 drag queens who have competed to be the next drag superstar on RuPaul’s Drag Race TV shows all over the world.

And that number of queens is quickly growing as dozens of new contestants wait for their turn in the spotlight as their seasons start to air.

So how does Janey Jacké, a little Dutch girl from the Brewster-Häagen-Dazs projects of Amnsterman lip sync for her life in wooden clogs stand out from the rest to win over the hearts of drag fans around the world?

Today Janey Jacké, runner up from Drag Race Holland Season One and Semi-Finalist on Drag Race UK vs The World Season One joins us to talk about her adventures as an international drag superstar and rising above the ocean of talented performers with her Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve and Talent.

Listen as we chat with Janey about the upcoming RuPaul’s Drag Race British Invasion Tour, growing up in a Amesteram’s liberal pro-recreational drug environment and the secret to a good stroopwafel.

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Plus,

➤ Andy Warhol’s ‘Marilyn' painting sells for $195 million at auction- the most for any US artist.

Episode #3026

As mask mandates get lifted once again, folks have spring fever instead of Covid fever.

Although comedian BenDeLaCreme is happy in a long term relationship, her onstage persona is horny and ready to lay out the incense, wine and candles for a very freaky scene. Yeow.

Today, the White Out bandit BenDeLaCreme joins us to look at dating and commitment as we near the end of the Covid pandemic.

Dela’s new show “BenDeLaCreme is...READY TO BE COMMITTED” is coming to a town near you, and if it’s anything like her critically acclaimed holiday special on Hulu, you know it’s going to be a wild ride.

This one-queen extravaganza is a hilarious and heartfelt spectacular that blends burlesque, comedy, and original music with her signature Terminally Delightful charm, and that’s not just her press release saying it, we really mean it!

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Plus-- BenDeLaCreme reflects on her controversial decision to walk away from of one of the biggest drag competitions on television- RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 3.

Episode #3014

Even though Lady Bunny is legendary for her outrageous song parodies and DJ music sets, those who follow her on social media have certainly gotten a taste of her passion for talking about politics and social movements.

In fact, once you get Bunny started, just like eating, it’s hard to get her to stop.

Bun-Bun can’t help herself when talking about:
• Bernie Sanders,
• Democrats,
• Republicans,
• Bisexual Senators Who Might As Well be Republicans,
• The Peace Movement,
• The Military Industrial Complex,
• The Ru Girl Industrial Complex,
• Universal Healthcare,
• The Economy,
• Loose Fitting Gowns,
• Student Loans,

And how the divas of today don’t hold a candle to the great singers of yesteryear, except for Jennifer Hudson, who people just don’t appreciate enough.

Sixteen years ago on Feast of Fun, Bunny was one of our first guests on the podcast and it’s been a thrill over the years as she returns time and time again to crack us up with stories of being a baby drag queen with RuPaul, founding Wigstock and her love of the peen.

But just like everyone else, Bunny is now holding her breath over her concerns over the Coronavirus.

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Today Lady Bunny joins us to take a look back at 16 years of being a guest on Feast of Fun and her own roller coaster ride of fame, fortune and fanatics.

As we celebrate 16 years and 3,000 episodes of Feast of Fun, we’ve asked one of our all time favorite drag queen guests, Miss Understood, to join us to look back at the early years of drag on TV and film.

In the 90s, Miss Understood was a regular on the daytime TV talk show circuit. When Sally Jesse Rafael or Geraldo Rivera wanted to showcase eccentric kooks from the New York City nightlife scene, Miss Understood was there in her psychedelic pink and green looks to wow the audience.

Miss Understood was cast as one of the contestants in the pageant scene in the first major Hollywood film to focus on drag queens “To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Love Julie Newmar.”

This bright colored wigged gal has been in a lot: Miss Understood was featured in the documentary Wigstock and the premier episode of Sex and the City. She was also the first drag queen we had on this podcast to talk about drag queen make up long before all the makeup tutorials made it onto the internet.

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MAGICTEEZ: https://magicteez.com

Today Miss Understood joins us to look back on her life as a drag queen and manager of Screaming Queens Entertainment and her new fashion line Magic Teez.

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Episode #2978

At the height of the AIDS crisis of the late 80s, LGBTQ folks turned to creating art, performance and music to act-up, fight back and fight AIDS.

One of the most powerful voices during the AIDS crisis was David Wojnarowicz, an artist and activist who combined punk music, graffiti, performance, painting and photography into a body of work that celebrated the outsider while speaking out against a hateful government that allowed thousands of Americans to die from AIDS.

Today we’re talking to filmmaker Chris McKim about his new film Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**ker. The film takes us on a thrilling journey through the AIDS epidemic as David Wojnarowicz weaponized his work to wage war on the establishment's greed and indifference until his death from AIDS in 1992 at the age of 37.

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The film makes David’s art come to life once again by combining his extensive audio and video recordings along with his art and commentary from legends like Fran Lebowittz.

For the first 4 seasons of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Chris McKim worked as the reality TV series’ showrunner and executive producer. Listen as we chat with Chris about the making of Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**ker and how he helped to create the reality TV juggernaut that made drag a mainstream affair.

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 vampish ways and dirty dirty blond onstage antics that comes across as a delirious fun fusion, if Stevie Nicks was a Las Vegas showgirl.

Today the legendary Kelly Lauren joins us in the home studio to take a look at her real life as a trans woman working in showbiz in a drag race world.

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Listen as we chat with Kelly about how a good man is hard to find, cancelling shame and cancel culture and what it’s going to take to get her back on stage after a year of not being in the spotlight.

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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 director John Mark update the format with raucous comedy, show-stopping musical numbers, hilarious sketches and more.

Today Sherry Vine joins us to take a look at our favorite prime time TV variety shows from the 70s and how they inspired her to bring The Sherry Vine Variety Show to life.

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Who can forget Cher and Tina Turner setting the stage on fire in the Cher Show, Paul Lynde scowling on the Donnie & Marie Christmas Special, or the Brady Bunch kids disco medley with Charo?

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➤ How Sherry helped Lady Gaga launch her career.

➤ How she convinced Jackie Beat to embrace her youthful self.

With the high visibility of drag queens on TV and social media and (even this podcast) there’s an idea that drag is just another form of show business, but it’s so much more.

For Puerto Rican queens or “Locas” as they are known, the call to do drag often stems from the pressure to survive as an artist in a very dangerous world.

Larry La Fountain’s new book Translocas: the Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance gives us a deep look at how Puerto Rican performers use drag to explore race, class, poverty and gender.

Today Larry La Fountain, professor of queer and Latinx studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor joins us to take a look at the Translocas we love: from Ru girls like Nina Flowers and Monica Beverly Hillz to trans pioneer Sylvia Rivera to other fabulous performance artists like Barbara Herr, Lady Catiria, Javier Cardona, Freddy Mercado and even Larry’s alter ego Lola Von Miramar.

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➤ Was Ricky Martin’s mega hit pop song “Livin’ la Vida Loca” a queer coded anthem?

➤ With POSE on FX wrapping up the third season, what’s going to happen to the careers of trans Latinx actors like MJ Rodriguez and Indya Moore?

➤ Vejigantes, the horned masked tricksters from carnival celebrations in Puerto Rico. Are they drag queens too?

➤ And singing and dancing Puerto Ricans come to Hollywood with two major motion pictures hitting the big screens this year: In the Heights and Steven Speilbergo’s remake of West Side Story.

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HRH Princess Diandra has an amazing drag career impersonating her first love Diana Ross. But she also relishes channelling the other two great entertainers in her Holy Trinity- Tina Turner and Patti Labelle.

As much as Princess Diandra loves her divas, she cuts them no slack. She’d just as soon come for those ladies that the “HRH” in her title might as well stand for “Honey, Read Her!”

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Now the tabloids went wild when Diandra literally poked Diana Ross. So imagine what Diandra is like to celebrities she doesn’t care for. Photographer David LaChapelle tasted the apple martini she dumped over his head. Madonna felt the coldness of Diandra’s shade. And Kathie Lee Gifford got an earful on a phone call so legendary it made it on TV.

Today we’re talking to Her Royal Highness Princess Diandra about all her adventures performing as a legendary drag entertainer and all celebrities she loves to read to filth.

Plus–

➤ Stalking celebrities outside of Studio 54 as a teenager.

➤ As mother of the House of Ecstasy, what are her thoughts on the final season of POSE?

➤ Filming To Wong Foo with all the top drag queens of the day.

➤ What happened to her number at Wigstock 2.0

➤ And all the tea Patti Labelle has on everyone.

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While there are a lot of similarities between the AIDS crisis of the late 80s and today’s Covid pandemic, one thing that’s been hard for a lot of people is not being able to meet up for a little hanky panky, not even get a little kiss.

Well, pucker up lovers, cause that’s all about to change.

Health experts are saying that at this point in the pandemic, a kiss is once again just a kiss, and like ACT-UP said in the 80s, greed and indifference are the real killers.

Today we’re taking a look at new health guidelines that are saying if you’ve had your covid shots, it’s probably ok to kiss and hook up with strangers.

LINK: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/well/live/covid-fully-vaccinated-guidelines.html

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➤ It turns out the famous Marshmallow Test given to children was just a bunch of fluff!

➤ Bill Murray says he was tricked into doing Ghostbusters II when promoting the new movie Ghostbusters: Afterlife and the script to the movie was completely changed once filming began.

➤ Pose Announces its third and final season airs on May 2.

➤ A child finds a bullet in a bag of hot Cheetos.

➤ Dragula is casting for their 4th season with the same cash prize as RuPaul’s Drag Race: $100,000.

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In the mid 80s, at the height of the AIDS crisis, New York City experienced a drag revolution. Cheap rent, fabulous clubs and a wide variety of people from all around the world living shoulder to shoulder, and girdle to girdle, created a drag explosion that released a mega ton of glitter and talent, leaving in its wake a culture that embraced drag like never before.

In the center of the action was drag queen Linda Simpson, who took pictures of all the kooky kids in the club scene with her portable camera. To Linda it was all casual fun but to the rest of the world now, it’s legendary.

Best known as a journalist for her indie magazine My Comrade, Linda Simpson gathered in-depth interviews with entertainers and nightclub personalities who would have otherwise been left forgotten in the dark corners of the club.

In her new book, The Drag Explosion, Linda Simpson reveals hundreds of full color photos of the New York Drag scene of the ‘80s and '90s including many legends when they were just stepping out in high heels onto the world.

Today, Linda Simpson gives us a look into her new book The Drag Explosion, her queer underground magazine My Comrade and why we still feel all these years later the shockwaves of the Drag Explosion.

Plus, why did Fran Lebowitz call drag queens childish?

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It’s Fat Tuesday! The streets of New Orleans are spookily empty as folks wisely stay home to help to bring an end to the Rona pandemic, but it doesn't mean we can’t safely celebrate from our home with our good gal pals like Mystique Summers, from Season 2 of RuPauls’ Drag Race.

Mystique’s been part of an intense discussion last week when she and her sister in RuPaulia,
Nina Bonina Brown, had a conversation about trans bodies, the art of drag and Nina’s comments on Gotmik’s scantily clad runway look on Drag Race.

Today Mystique Summers joins us on Fat Tuesday to take a look at the heated conversation taking place about trans drag queens, Gotmik’s showing off that body ody ody and how Texas is freezing this Mardi Gras.

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➤ Is it on? TS Madison is getting a new reality TV show on We TV.

➤ Folks beg Tamron Hall not to give Sherry Pie an opportunity to rehab her image.

➤ Are high heel shoes going extinct?

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For 13 seasons RuPaul’s Drag Race has been bringing underground artists into the mainstream, and sometimes the world is just not ready for the gag. This time, the latest greatest gasp for air is a t shirt designed by drag queen Gotmik which prominently displays the scars from their top surgery.

Oooh, you got controversy!

Gotmik's t shirt alludes to the famous “boobs on a t-shirt” design that Viviennne Westwood made for the Sex Pistols which celebrated the feminist anti-bra movement of the 70s, but this new design featuring Gotmik’s chest scars essentially has the same message - ditch what’s bothering you and fly free!

Today NYC drag personality Kareem McJagger joins us to take a look at Gotmik’s controversial new t shirt design and what exactly was Tessica Brown trying to do with that Gorilla Glue Spray to lay an edge. What does it mean to lay an edge?

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➤ Is it too late to accept Justin Timberlake’s apology to Janet Jackson and Britney Spears 17 years later?

➤ Mandalorian star Gina Carano goes back to her home planet.

➤ Farwell to queer musician Ari Gold, New York night life personality, star in Starbooty and child singer in the My Buddy doll commercial that later became the inspiration for Chucky in the horror film Child’s Play.

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In the late 1970s radio stations were in revolt, declaring Disco music dead, culminating in the notorious Disco Demolition night at Comiskey Park, a promotional event that backfired into a full-on riot.

“Disco Sucks” became the battle cry against the decadence of the club scene, its association with gay culture and because the music genre was overexposed- people got sick of the disco beat in bubble gum ads and celebrity vanity records- even the gay robots from Star Wars had a Disco Album.

Out of the ashes of Disco’s demise, DJs in Chicago developed a new sound for a new generation which became known as House Music. This style became a hit in clubs catering to black, latino and gay folks, and is now what most electronic music is based on.

Today we’re talking to one of the pioneering DJs of House Music, Ralphi Rosario. Recently, the City of Chicago named a street after his DJ group “The Hot Mix Five” for their contribution to the international House Music scene.

Join us as Ralphi Rosario gives us some amazing stories about remixing songs for all the divas: Cher, Madonna, Donna Summer and even Jennifer Holliday.

Are celebrity DJs ruining everything? Wedding DJs and the role of drugs in dance music.

{Best of Feast of Fun, originally posted as FOF #1242 - You Can't Stop the Music - 08.26.10}

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Christmas has arrived! No winter snow, no covid pandemic, no gloom nor doom is going to hold back a fierce queen like Vivacious from snapping her fan and shining her light this holiday season.

Innovating like a mother-has-arrived, our gal pal from Season 6 of RuPaul’s Drag Race is busy cranking out the Cameos and turning her New York City apartment into an international dance club with Quarantina Dancerina, an interactive DJ set on twitch that streams some of the sickest beats ever to grace the world’s sound systems.

Today Vivacious, mother of Ornacia, soul sister to all the good people of the world joins us to look back on the year and how drag queens are turning to online media and streaming to give the children life.

Listen as Vivacious weighs in on the Season 13 contestants, what’s the hot tea?

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➤ The origin of her cone spike costume element.

➤ Jamaican Christmas traditions!

➤ How the Black Lives Matter movement is shaping entertainment.

➤ Republican drag queens.

➤ What is a Cannibal Sandwich and why would Wisconsin James Mansfeild try to feed it to a queen?

2020 has been harder on working drag queens than Baby Jane Hudson was to her poor sister Blanche in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. If only we weren’t in this Covid pandemic.

But you are Blanche, you are in that pandemic.

Fortunately, most queens aren’t left eating their dead pet bird. Next year just has to be better- It gets better, right?

For San Francisco drag legend Peaches Christ, this has been a year for growth and reflection. Peaches opened up her private vault of campy horror films spoofs featuring the world’s top drag queens and now she’s getting ready for the future by developing all new tv and film projects.

Today Peaches Christ looks back on her year of hell, speculates on which famous horror house she’d love to live in, and her upcoming streaming release of Whatever Happened to Bianca Del Rio.

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The mansion seen in the film Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Is up for sale. You got 3.8 million dollars honey?

Peaches looks at Ryan Murphy’s Prom, Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square and Clea DuVall’s Happiest Season.

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When winter’s chill sets upon us during the holiday season, it’s a perfect time for Lady Bunny to deliver a flaming hot roast, and this Christmas nobody’s safe, not even Santa!

In her new holiday special “What Child is This?” filmed at New York’s legendary Stonewall Inn to an audience of one, Lady Bunny examines our not-so-quiet desperation living in the middle of the Covid Pandemic where Republicans have politicized the act of human kindness of wearing masks.

Fair warning - this is not Lady Bunny’s first pandemic so you may recognize some of her legendary raunchy AIDS jokes in her show repurposed for Covid chuckles and she delivers a stocking full of peppermint twisted parodies like “Rudolpho The Uncut Reindeer,” “All I Want for Christmas (Is a Vaccine),” and “Santa’s Spreadin’ COVID Around.”

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Today Lady Bunny lets us open our Christmas presents early and play some of her funniest songs from her new holiday special “What Child is This.”

Plus,

➤ Celebrating Christmas in Africa as a Quaker kid.

➤ Remembering Sugga Pie KoKo.

➤ Why Madonna looks like Moon Maiden from Dick Tracy.

➤ What would Lady Bunny want on her tombstone if she were Scrooge.

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The TV game show Match Game was canceled in 1963 for being too bland and not connecting with viewers. Figuring you couldn’t get canceled twice, the show’s writers put in cheeky questions designed to make the contestants blush at the celebrity panel’s witty banter and sexual innuendo. It won audiences back over and it stayed on the air until 1969.

The game show then brought back as Match Game 73 and was nominated for several Emmys. Its risqué humor changed the tone of daytime TV game shows forever.

Today camp culture historian A. Ashley Hoff takes us on a backstage tour of Match Game, the orange shag carpeted TV game show where our favorite gay icons cracked up the audience as they “filled in the blank” over cocktails.

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Ashley’s book, Match Game 101: A Backstage History of Match Game,is an in-depth look into the making of the iconic game show and features interviews with the fabulous celebrities who made host Gene Rayburn’s circus come to life as the hottest cocktail party on TV.

Listen as we “blank” with Ashley about:

➤ Brett Somers, Fannie Flagg, Richard Dawson and why Mae West was never a celebrity guest.

➤ Charles Nelson Reilly’s wonderfully queer showbiz career from Broadway to Sid & Marty Kroftt’s Lidsville, to life as one of the most beloved talk show personalities.

➤ Evie Phineas, the most awkward game show contestant in history.

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Halloween is just two week away folks, and you probably haven't even thought about what you going to wear. Unless you’re gay, which you probably are, and you decided sometime in right after Pride. But, if you're like most Americans, you don't have a lot of money to put it together.

Lucky for you, we're joined today by sizzling drag queen Shea Coulee, who has worked retail in both costume and sex toy shops. Being half bougie and bangie, she's got a good sense of how to make the most of your drag dollars and look fierce this Halloween.

Listen as we talk about some inexpensive but effective looks for new drag queens, animal hoodies, easy costumes for lazy lesbians and how to sexifying your superhero.

Not all costume ideas should be carried out. Here are some great and not so great ideas: Snack vending machine, Obama Hope Poster, Julianne Hough as Orange is the new Blackface, Black and white film actors and Lichenstein (comic book) makeup.

{Originally posted as FOF #2066 - Cheap & Thrilling Halloween Costume Ideas - 10.17.14}

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• Angela Basset and Matt Bomer play intersexed characters on the new season of American Horror Story.

• Do you qualify to be a paid poop donor? Take our quiz!

• Are white pumpkins racist?