I have a “holy grail” list, a short one, of those vinyl recordings that have eluded me, and (Yay!) I get to cross one off the list this week. It’s the mid-80’s LP by Frank (Foo Foo) Lammar, one of the UK’s most famed female impersonators. It took me many years to track this puppy…

It had been a while since I thought of the 1982 film “Querelle,” directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, or that I owned the soundtrack for it. But a Facebook friend posted on my wall about a Christie’s auction of some of the drawings and photos that Andy Warhol used to create the enchanting cover image…

This week I was sent a link to a new video by bisexual singer Samia, and I just have to share it. Now, a lot of artists are quick to call one of their own songs an anthem, and I usually think to myself: harumph! an anthem is decided by a wide audience and only…

Between 1996 and 2000 Dink Records released several gay-themed CDs of mostly Broadway songs, sung male to male, and (in Volume 3) adding female to female. As you can tell from the graphic, there were three distinct volumes, along with a fourth collecting songs from the first three, sort of a greatest hits, though as…

Sandra Mihanovich has been a very popular Argentine singer since the early 1980’s, and when “I Am What I Am” was still a new song (1984) she recorded her part dance version, to some acclaim in that country, and she’s still singing it. I found videos of her doing the song, in Spanish, “Soy Lo…

Okay, raise your hands, how many have heard of Miss Destiny? Well, she was likely the most famous drag queen of 1960’s Los Angeles, and she got that fame courtesy of John Rechy. He devoted a chapter of “City of Night” to her, and as that book is considered one of the early landmark works…

Judy Small is an Australian folk legend, and an openly lesbian one. Her music works commenting on social justice over the last thirty-plus years made her an icon in that country. And this year she received a couple of very deserved honors. The above various artists CD was released to honor some of her musical…

Well, a partial victory today led me to drag out the two songs in my collection that lyrically address the issue of gays in the Boy Scouts. The earliest one, from 2000, is by a singer going by Peto, and appeared on his CD “In My Place.” He called it “Scout’s Honor.” Hear “Scout’s Honor,”…

 Yes, “Queer Things” were happening back in the 1950’s. My last blog entry told of a song from 1953 by Louis Farrakhan, aka The Charmer, inspired by the sex change operation of Christine Jorgensen. And the song above also mentions Christine. This time it was by the prolific songstress of naughtby tunes, Ruth Wallis. Despite…

Yes, “The Charmer” was Louis Farrakhan, since 1975 the leader of the religious movement Nation of Islam, although the Anti-Defamation League instead of being charmed has said he is an “unrepentant bigot” who continues to spew his hateful message of anti-Semitism, homophobia and racism.  Back around 1953 he was a calypso singer, and recordings he…