A drag king of 1912, sort of. In the early decades of the last century, when people had pianos in their parlors, sheet music was one of the ways music was brought home, and regarding sales, nothing much has changed…performers were used to sell the goods. So their images often appeared on the sheet music…

Okay, not sure how I missed the premier of the video “Crying Out For Love” by Aussie singer Nathan Leigh Jones last July, but I want to make amends. The song is from his 2011 CD “Sooner or Later” and they did that song’s video in a big way, at a marriage equality rally in…

My current OutRadio show for September features a special hour-long interview with Levi Kreis, and his interviews are always a delight, this is our fifth one. And I’ve just done a blog post plugging the show five days ago….But got some very cool news about a special release. And I don’t usually just grab from…

I’ve known Scott Free since 1999 when we met at the long-departed GLAMA Awards, in New York City. And I immediately took to his music. Here’s a photo I took at that event with, left to right, Micah Barnes, Scott Free and the late Dean Johnson. So, I’ve been playing his music on my shows…

Levi Kreis is one of my favorite interview guests. Over the years we’ve talked several times and it’s always a delight. He is just so natural and even when I tease him he takes it in stride. For the interview on his new CD it was no different. I love to ask about the back…

The Florida punk rock band Against Me! was formed in 1997 by lead singer and guitarist Tom Gable, and their albums have become more successful with each release over the years. A year ago they made news not often heard in that music genre, Gable was transitioning to be a woman, and taking the name…

Ah, how do I tell you about “Vegas in Space”? Well, it’s CAMP with all capitol letters, and so bad it’s fascinating. Yes, it’s intentionally bad, but they sort of make it work…let’s call it a sub-cult classic. It’s a 1991 release co-written and starring Doris Fish, one of the most popular drag queens in…

  Kenneth Marlowe was one of the gayest and most openly homosexual of personalities of the 1960’s. He went from a 1940’s/1950’s drag performer, to being a madam, to being the author of several books, to becoming a transsexual. In 1964 he published his famous autobiography  “Mr. Madam: Confessions of a Male Madam,” to much…

I love the musical “Rent,” and when the show came out I especially became a fan of Anthony Rapp, who played videographer Mark Cohen in the original Broadway cast, in 1996. “Rent” was a success beyond the definition of success, and while this show is, so far, his major claim to fame, he has done…

Hear “One Common Heartbeat” In 1998 on the twentieth anniversary of International Mr. Leather, in Chicago, the leather community got an anthem. The founder of IML, Chuck Renslow suggested one was needed and approached Gary Aldrich to write it. Aldrich and Kevin Tyrrell supplied the music and lyrics and Aldrich, known for his operatic singing…