By Fausto Fernós on April 29, 2008
Only crazy people, beauty pageant winners, drag queens and royalty wear tiaras- when it comes to the folks of the Windy City Empire, you can check “all the above.”
It’s always such a nutty delight to see them out and about in your local gay bar holding court and raising money for a wide variety of charities.
Officially called the Windy City Court of the Prairie State Empire, they are part of the Imperial Court System, one of the world’s oldest gay organizations which draws its roots back to San Francisco in the 1970s.
Every year these courts all around the country raise money for charities through large fancy fundraisers which mainly consist of court members and their friends hanging out in royal attire and bestowing upon each other large colorful royal-sounding names.
On today’s show, Alexandra St. James joins us to shed some light on the Imperial Court System. Are they for real? Is this mostly tongue in cheek or do some people truly believe themselves to be royalty?
Alexandra’s full name is: Her Imperial Majesty the Ruby Phoenix Sorceress of Radiance Renewal and Redemption the Empress Prima Alexandra Saint James. What a mouthful!
At coronation time, many court members pick their names after monuments in the city where they live in and Alexandra named herself after Chicago’s Buckingham Fountain, don’t ask us why.
Alexandra is busy these days pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music studying Opera, where she hopes one day to sing among the best of them in theaters around the world.
And what a set of pipes this diva-in-training has! The Lady Alexandra can easily imitate many of the famous women of music, stage and screen. You will be floored by her effortless take on Tina Turner, Gladys Night and the powerhouse Patti LaBelle.
Listen as we talk with her majesty about the Cinderella Syndrome and what’s the matter with young kids today.
Did you hear? A recent survey of GLBT youth suggests most of them want to be married with kids by the age of 30. That’s a lot to chew on. When I was younger, many of my female friends thought having a kid in their youth would be a disastrous blow to their futures but now many young people think of getting married and having kids as their future.
Is this just the romanticism of youth or are we seeing a fundamental change in queer identity here?
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By Fausto Fernós on April 27, 2008
Sit tight! We’ve got a drag-queen filled, delicious roller coaster ride of podcasting for you today.
Sal-E’s best gal-pal Teri Yaki joins us to talk about why so many people love to claim a drag queen as their best friend, why drag queens fight so much with each other and the origins of his delicious […]
By Fausto Fernós on April 21, 2008
Think Pink! Queen of the Internet, fashion model and indie musician Jeffree Star joins us today for an interview about his new single “Heart Surgery Isn’t That Bad” and his tour across the U.S.
Since the young age of 15, Jeffree began blogging and posting haunting photos of himself in makeup. Six years later and at […]
By Fausto Fernós on April 7, 2008
Get your booty in high gear people! The most famous drag queen in the world, RuPaul joins us for real on today’s show.
Well known for her 1993 chart topping release Supermodel, RuPaul Charles is still going on strong as a drag queen, comedian, musician and filmmaker.
RuPaul literally became the first drag queen supermodel after […]
By Fausto Fernós on March 18, 2008
Since the early days of film, making and watching movies has been a very gay pastime. Check out this early “Kinestoscope” movie of two men dancing made by William Dickson at Thomas Edison’s “Black Maria” experimental film studio. I’m not sure if the two guys were Thomas Edison’s hunky assistants or just some gay […]
continueBy Marc Felion on March 4, 2008
Brace yourself, you’re about to get a stunning!
Calpernia Addams, the Peabody Prize winning writer, actress and activist, best known on the Feast of Fools for her single “Stunning” joins us today to talk about the genesis of that fabulous dance song.
“Stunning” came out one of the episodes from her brand new reality tv series […]
By Fausto Fernós on January 17, 2008
WWPCW? What Would Peaches Christ Watch? A campy horror film with lots of gratuitous sex, violence and wild women on the verge of insanity, of course!
Brainchild of filmmaker Joshua Grannell, Peaches Christ is well known in San Francisco for the 10-year-running Midnight Mass movie events where drag queens perform tacky skits before the screening of […]
By Fausto Fernós on November 12, 2007
Get your booty in high gear people! The most famous drag queen in the world, RuPaul joins us for real on today’s show.
Well known for her 1993 chart topping release Supermodel, RuPaul Charles is still going on strong as a drag queen, comedian, musician and filmmaker.
RuPaul literally became the first drag queen supermodel after […]
By Fausto Fernós on November 6, 2007
Get your salad fork ready because New York City’s finest drag queen comedian, Hedda Lettuce is here! The obscene green queen who makes Halloween seem serene joins us on today’s show.
Hedda was forged in the fires of AIDS activism and in the New York City Cable Access television scene of the early 90s. […]
By Fausto Fernós on September 19, 2007
For over a decade Cookie Dough has been camping it up with the best of them on many stages in San Francisco including Trannyshack and at the live stage production of the Golden Girls as well as at her own “The Monster Show.”
Today we bring yet another fabulous San Francisco drag queen, Cookie Dough. According […]
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