Anita Bryant is dead! Long live the queens! “Well, at least it’s a fruit pie.” – Anita Bryant, 1977Bryant waged her anti-gay crusade in the 1970s. Anita Bryant is dead. Ding. Dong. “If you don’t FLAUNT it, then who’s going to know you’re homosexual or not? They wanted to flaunt it and not lose their…
Category: Dance Party
Hy’s Fried Tea Dance
This party has everything.Disco on vinyl. DJ/County Supa-Visor. Little Orphan Annie with used cigarettes in her hair. Waffles. Ghosts with fake boobs.Just don’t hit a deer on the way home. You want a good Tea Dance? Take Route 23 and drive to Massachusetts, right over the border, near Catamount. Hy’s Fried is a newly renovated…
Gay Antique City
Gay Antique City drag show in Hudson, NY on Labor Day Weekend!Hudson Power Bottom Boat Club – between the Amtrak Station at the River$20 Cash/Venmo at the door – see poster below. Hope to see you there!-Trix Wigstock used to take place every year on Labor Day Weekend in Tompkins Square Park. Here’s some clips…
Ailey II Launches Their 50th Season at the Hudson Area Library
Alvin Ailey’s modern dance repertory company, Ailey II, brings a community celebration to Hudson On July 28th and 29th, the Hudson Area Library hosted a series of exciting and successful community events to celebrate the launch of Ailey II’s 50th season of visionary, dynamic modern dance performances. Ailey II (the younger version of the world-renowned…
Winter Blues— feel the heat with the Fabulous Versatones
By Romeo Barkley Feeling the winter blues? And we don’t mean the dull drums of the cold and darkness— we mean musically! This Trixie writer couldn’t pass up an excuse dance along to the Fabulous Versatones. With generations of rockstar clout, the Fabulous Versatones are indeed fabulous! On every 1st and 3rd Thursday of the…
A Midsummer Night’s Supreme Dream
Happy Pride! Every now and then, someone asks me for my preferred pronoun or they ask if they should refer to me as “Trixie” or “Rich”. Honestly, I don’t care. Whatever works. I’m an old-school homosexual. I’m a “drag queen”, and my chyron underneath should read, FOR Entertainment Purposes ONLY! My gender-bending is barely an…