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A lot of sitting in my chair rocking back and forth and crying was done, but really it was healing to revisit everything.
What did you learn most about yourself in writing Caught in the Act?
COURTNEY ACT is Caught in the Act
By Alexander Rodriguez
Have you ever been afraid of being overshadowed or losing your own identity to the Courtney Act persona?
I wrote 220k words and 80k went to print so there was a lot of tea that was left on the cutting room floor. I don’t know if I am nervous, but I am interested to see what the fans do with all the Drag Race stories.
What do you want your fans to get most from reading your book? I hope my fans feel inspired to radically express themselves. What have you learned the most about life from that bullied kid of so many years ago? That bullying was not about me, it wasn’t a reflection of who I was, but rather was about the bullies and the society we all grew up in. The story did not end there, life went on and it is wonderful.
Dannii Minogue calls drag artist Courtney Act’s new tell-all book Caught in the Act “Hysterical! Shockingly honest, raun chy, funny, and moving…” Indeed. Gurl, is the world ready for Courtney to spill all this tea? If you think you know everything about Courtney Act, you don’t. Her memoir is everything you would expect in terms of humor, sass, and OMG moments, but there is a lot of heart, truth, and emotion as well. The book details Shane Jenek’s (the man behind Courtney Act) rise to fame and their jour ney to find themselves amid the spotlight and glitter. In what could be an HBO series, Courtney recounts life grow ing up in Brisbane, Australia during the 80s and 90s, dealing with their sexuality and conventionally traditional parents, early rise in the drag scene, and relationship with drugs and sex. On the lighter side, she recounts her many brushes with reality TV wins, including Drag Race and Australia’s Dancing with the Stars and Australian Idol, to her ultimate win on Ce lebrity Big Brother UK. Her debut memoir far surpasses the Drag Race universe, though it is a must-have for any Drag Race fan. It is an ulti mate story about overcoming obstacles in heels and never losing yourself in the moment.
In the beginning, I was competitive with “Courtney Act” but really, I am Courtney, the struggle to understand who I am beyond the status quo has been one of the greatest gifts of my Youlife. have a close relationship with reality TV. What has been your favorite reality TV experience, and why?
Courtney stopped by to spill the tea as this month’s GED Drag Centerfold: Why is now the perfect time to tell your story in a mem oir? I was scheduled to start writing in March 2020 and when I landed in Los Angeles on the first day of lockdown, I had the perfect activity to do whilst locked in my flat all summer, and fall, and winter...
You spill ALL the tea. What are you most nervous about people finding out about?
My friendship with Bianca, Adore, and Darienne on Drag Race and winning Celebrity Big Brother was so epic and life changing. If you were to go back to Drag Race, what would you do differently? I’m not one for hypotheticals. I had to go through all that to get to where I am today. I guess I wouldn’t change a thing. What is your take on the evolution and exposure of Drag
It was the deepest childhood regression therapy ever! Sitting there for over a year immersed in remembering and writing about the most informative events of my life was so cathar tic. Several of those stories were saved in an incomplete way and going back to uncover those memories helped to bring understanding from an adult perspective.
What was it like reliving your life experiences for the book; how did you get through the rough parts?
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Race over the years, has it become too commercial?
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The Drag Race Universe has expanded so big. Feels hard to keep up. I don’t think it’s become too commercial; I still love watching it, but I tend to focus on the original series, All Stars and of course Downunder. What advice do you have for drag queen newbies? Do drag because you love it, because it’s a creative expression. Art. Passion. Fun. Rapid Fire Centerfold Questions: Guilty pleasure? Logan Paul. Favorite part about doing drag? Making people think differently about things they previously thought to be true.
Least favorite part about doing drag? The physical pain. I tend to mitigate the physical pain as I get older. Less prolonged heel wear ing, less corsetry. Strangest factoid about you? I have a webbed toe. Favorite nightlife hotspot? Burning Man - Glamcocks Camp Favorite non-profit? Black Rainbow. They focus on the upliftment of Aboriginal and Torres Straight Island queer people in Australia. Favorite binge food? I do love a Cool Ranch Dorito. What is the most overrated pop song? How about underrated? “Justice for Body Parts.” Maybe I’m biased because it’s my song. Go-to cocktail? A spicy Margarita. Who would play you in the movie version of Caught in the Act? Charlize Theron circa early 2000’s. [Laughs] Favorite song to perform? “I Touch Myself” by the Divinyls. Favorite moment from Drag Race? The wings. What is your after-drag ritual? Taking drag off is one of the best parts of getting into drag. What’s your favorite pickup line? Wanna pash? (Australian for “Wanna makeout”.) Celebrity crush? Nas X What would your Real Housewives tagline be? Sewing is not my forte, but everything else is! You can follow Courtney on IG: @CourtneyAct
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DESERT THEATREWORKS: And while we’re on the topic of Palm Springs Theatre, one of the finest companies in the Coach ella Valley has joined us this month as advertisers. Although they are not specifically a gay theatre company, Ron Phillips the CEO and Lance Phillips the Artistic Director are a married couple and the Indio-based company is certainly gay embrac ing. They kick off a very robust and varied season of shows this month with Southern Fried Nuptials, a cornbread comedy. A few highlights of the season include Nunsense A Men, the clas sic nun musical with men playing the nuns; White Christmas, the perennial Irving Berlin musical; Escape to Margaritaville, the Jimmy Buffet musical; and The Play That Goes Wrong. The latter two are among the first productions by community the atres anywhere in the country which is an example of the great business skills of this company. “Show Business” expresses two concepts: Is the show you are presenting any good? and Can the company effectively fill their seats and survive as a viable business? I’m happy to observe that Desert Theatreworks does both with the power couple behind the scenes. Check out their season at www.DTWorks.org
THEATRE RHINOCEROS: San Francisco’s Theatre Rhinoceros bills itself as the longest-running queer theatre company in the world. However, at this time they have not announced their next season – simply hinted that they might be using a new venue. They also have the longest-following audience base who seem to delight in unusual queer theatre performed in unusual places by unusual people. Did I mention they are in San Francisco? https://therhino.org
DESERT ROSE PLAYHOUSE: Palm Springs’ gay theatre compa ny has hit a rocky path. About four years ago the small company was taken over by a very promising couple who produced some stunning shows in the little 65-seat Rancho Mirage theatre that had been established some eight years before. During the pan demic they acquired a deserted night club in downtown Palm Springs and converted it into a jewel box of a theatre. However, coming out of the pandemic, they somehow thought it would be a great idea to present mostly hetero-centric plays and both their audiences and financial supporters didn’t agree with that plan at all. As a result, Robbie and Matt, the charismatic own ers have been forced to close the theatre’s doors. However, the great news is that it looks like a very capable pair are going to take it over. I have been asked not to reveal any details at this point, but if you ever saw Palm Springs’ longest running play (and a personal favorite) called Electricity, chances are you’re going to be as excited as I am about the new developments. More to follow. www.desertroseplayhouse.org
THEATRE: This San Diego company is starting their 37th season which confirms that they are doing something right. In fact, they do a whole lot right from their little upstairs theatre just north of Balboa Park, and they are the third-oldest LGBTQ theatre company. Their season doesn’t start until De cember 1 when they present The Mystery of Irma Vep, a hilari ous show I saw there about 20 years ago and still remember it fondly. Victorian Romance, gothic horror and B-grade movies all collide onstage with dozens of characters portrayed by only two actors. The season finishes with the Go Go’s musical Head Over Heels, one of my very favorite shows ever, which plays May 5 through June 18. www.diversionary.org
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Ahhh, the month of September. It is the first harbinger of sum mer leaving us and I issue a long sigh. However, the bright side is that a lot of seasonal theatres are emerging from their sum mer hibernation and kicking off new lineups. A quick look at California’s gay theatre companies:
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THEATRE SAN FRANCISO: A whole lot more traditional than The Rhino, New Conservatory is a brilliant blend of existing and experimental gay theatre in two adjoin ing theatres on Van Ness Street, combined with an educational component and some brilliant business management. Their season starts September 8th with a show called Aunt Jack, sub titled Life is a Drag. Their season includes a Christmas special, Oy Vey in a Manger performed by San Francisco’s delightful Kinsey Sicks, and Jonathan Larsen’s Tick Tick Boom which gained so much attention last year when Andrew Garfield starred in it on Netflix. www.nctcsf.org
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Scott Nevins Putting the #Unity in #Community By Kevin Perry Photo: Isaak Serrano Location: Palm Springs City Hall
Humor is life’s great barometer. If something is too mean or too nice, it isn’t funny, honey. But when we can strike the right bal ance of compassion and irreverence, laughter naturally follows.
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Early in my career I worked with writer (and all-around icon) Bruce Vilanch, who once said to me “you don’t look like most comics - so you can’t make fun of how other people look or the audience will hate you. You have to make fun of yourself first.” So, most of the time I make myself the punchline of my stories, and the payoff is always better. In life, on stage, and in politics, if you are being authentic, people pick up on it and respond. From that moment on I was always authentically myself and was never afraid to laugh at myself first. It’s kind of like that line from GYPSY, “nobody laughs at me because I laugh first - at me!” Oh god, I just casually quoted GYPSY - if ever there was a question of my sexuality. The les son - be real and don’t take yourself too seriously!
At the ripe old age of 24, Scott was headlining standup shows at Carolines on Broadway, where he wore his impressionability on his oh-so-stylish sleeve.
Humility and humor go hand-in-hand with Mr. Nevins, who par layed his love for laughter into longevity supreme. I had an incredible ride of sustaining a career for over 20 years in one of the hardest businesses to work in. Highlights would be: opening for Barry Manilow in Vegas, appearing on CNN as a contributor, producing my yearly all-star holiday benefit called
For Scott, being gay was less of an Achilles’ heel and more of a bootstrap towards better things. I was bullied a lot, but I was able to learn to use comedy to con fuse/diffuse the situation. Survival of the wittiest instead of fit test, I guess. I definitely knew I was different. When other kids were sneaking out to drink and smoke, I was sneaking into NYC to see a Broadway show at 13. I was lucky to have family mem bers who, although baffled by how different I was, did the best with what they knew to support my interests. They didn’t know what to make of me, but they surrounded me with love and pro tection, which is where I learned those skills, and I would later apply it to those in my community.
Scott Nevins navigates the fine line between amusement and ac tivism deftly. He has leveraged a brilliant stage and screen career into a vibrant philanthropic platform. We picked Scott’s brain and plucked his funny bone to learn how he went from comedi an to community leader.
My big New York mouth often got me into hot water, because I was always questioning the status quo and the religious teach ings at school. They didn’t like it when I pointed out that the Bi ble was just a book of made-up stories and that there was no Ark with two of every animal, because the animals would have eaten one another!
I was raised in Flushing, Queens, (I know, the jokes just write themselves.) My report card always said the same two things: “Scott is a pleasure to have in class” and “Scott talks too much.”
Photo: Isaak Serrano Location: Demuth Park (Palm Springs, CA)
Commitment is a cornerstone of Scott’s worldview. With every opportunity, he simultaneously reaches up for the big brass ring and reaches back to lift up those who need him most. I always said that if I ever achieved any level of success that I was use it for good. As my career got bigger, so did the events and the platform. Suddenly I was traveling the country and hosting huge events for organizations like HRC, PFLAG, God’s Love We Deliver, The Matthew Shepard Foundation, Bring Change to Mind, The Point Foun dation, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, the NY & Los Angeles LGBT Centers, OUT & Equal Workplace Advocates, The Actors Fund (now The Entertainment Fund), San Fran cisco AIDS Foundation, and so many others. I was able to use comedy to bring awareness to pressing political, civil rights and social justice issues. Then, when I was on Bravo, the 2016 election was happening and I made the choice to be vocal about politics and not shy away from it the way many public figures do, because they don’t want to alien ate portions of their fan base. To me, we had gone too far and seen too much (little did I know what was in store for the next four years), and it was important for me to speak up, like I had in NYC and LA with local groups fighting to help marginalized communities.
Right now, you need to go to iwillvote.com to either reg ister to vote or double check your registration. After what we saw happen to women’s reproductive rights, it is imper ative that every LGBTQ+ person register and show up to vote! For many of us, women were our first allies, and we must stand firm with women now. The fact that their re productive rights are on the line in 2022 is disgraceful. We cannot let this happen! Also, don’t think for a moment that they aren’t coming for us (the LGBTQ+ community) nextbecause they are. We need a majority to protect our rights. Sound the alarms because this is not a drill!
Sounding the alarm with his signature charm, Scott explains how politics is not passive. An injustice for one is an injustice for all, and the queer community is their next target.
“Sparkle: An All-Star Holiday Concert” for 10 years strong, star ring on a Bravo TV show (“The People’s Couch”) for 5 seasons, and of course the hundreds of benefits and galas that I hosted or performed at for some of our most important organizations that had special meaning to me. One fun story: when I was starting out, I would host my own fake talk show called “Scott Nevins *Presents*” at Therapy lounge in NYC. One week, Tammy Faye Messner was in town to promote her book and somehow, I booked her. The place was packed, and Tammy was incredible! I asked her if she would do my eyelashes with her mascara, and she agreed. Of course, I was still talking while she was doing it, and because I am animated, I moved, and she poked my eye with the mascara wand. In front of hundreds of people. I was suddenly blind in one eye, with Tammy Faye Messner next to me, and I had to finish the show.
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Summoning Sister Sledge, Scott embraces the power of con nection. Community means extended family. These are people who are in your life, whether you know it or not, every day. You can come from different places, different backgrounds, different generations, and yet still share this commonality of home together. I’m a people person, and I love helping people, but I also love learning their stories. Everyone has a story, and many will share it if you just ask. That kind of sharing creates a bond. Being a LGBTQ+ citizen, I’ve seen firsthand the power of community, and how it can save someone’s life, and empower/lift them up. Scott’s journey from entertainer to activist ultimately inspired him to delve into uncharted territory. For years I’ve been asked when I was running for public of fice, and I’d always say, “I want it to be the right position at the right time.” Well, my husband and I got married in April of 2022 (after having to postpone three times over two years because of COVID), and during that down time I really took stock of what was next for me. After our wed ding I told my husband “You’re going to hate this idea, but instead of a honeymoon, what if I ran for City Council?” He has been insanely supportive, mostly because, as he put it “I know your heart, and I know that you’re doing this for all of the right reasons - you’d be an incredible councilmem ber.” When you look at my history of working with and advocating for marginalized communities, my leadership roles in both my career, and in my public live as a communi ty advocate, and my special skill set from working in media, it all just made sense. So, it’s official: Scott Nevins put a ring on it.
Running for Palm Springs City Council is truly one of the things I am most proud of - more than any of the accom plishments from my years in show business. It’s a huge swing - and the response has been so overwhelmingly pos itive. Lots of people kept texting me after my announce ment saying, “This just makes sense” or “This is perfect for you!” It was very moving to feel so supported. This is my second mountain to climb, and I’m so excited for the journey. I cannot wait to serve this city that I love and care about so much. I have lots of ideas on how we tackle the biggest issues facing our city, and lots of plans on how we lift up every single resident so that Palm Springs is not just an oasis in the desert for visitors looking for a fun weekend, but also for those who live and work here all year round. I’m ready to get to work to make that happen!
There’s so much progress that we’ve made, but that prog ress is under great threat. Certain religions have driven dangerous anti-LGBTQ+ beliefs and legislation, and that has now begun to poison our Democracy. We must unify and show up to vote to stop this horrifying trajectory of sending LGBTQ+ back into the closet and stripping their rights. If you still believe that it can’t happen here, just look around - it’s already happening! Voting is the only way we can protect ourselves. I always say, “If you don’t vote, you can’t bitch!” With my work as a civil rights, LGBTQ+, and community healthcare advocate, I’ve been a part of work that actually changes people’s lives. As a Board Member of DAP Health in Palm Springs, I have been a part of some thing that literally saves lives. It’s very humbling, honestly, and for a guy who cares about people the way I do, it’s a beautiful feeling. And the feeling is mutual, Mr. Nevins. Or should we say Council man Nevins? Stay tuned, stay vigilant, and stay gay, everybody!
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Optimism courses through Scott’s system alongside caffeine and charisma. He perceives our glass-half-empty current situ ation through a half-glass-full of possibilities. The world has changed, and America has changed too.
You can visit www.scottnevins.com for more about Scott and his mission.
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Guy Branum This BRO is Making People Laugh By Alexander Rodriguez Photo courtesy of Guy Brannum
Cinematic history will be made at the end of this month when Universal releases Bros, the first gay rom-com from a major theatrical studio featuring an all-LGBTQ+ princi pal cast. Playing best friend to the film’s lead Billy Eichner is modern-day trailblazer comedian, writer, and actor Guy Branum, who also serves as one of the film’s producers. Chal lenging the norms of roles not usually given to plus-size ac tors, his character Henry is no slacker in the sexually active department. Bros is just one of the many major projects he has recently worked on. Hot off the heels of Amazon’s se ries version of A League of Their Own, he worked alongside Wanda Sykes, Nick Kroll, and Ike Barinholtz writing for Mel Brooks’ highly anticipated History of the World, Part II. Oh, did we mention he’s also working on Paramount’s How To Lose a Guy In 10 Days? This Guy is busy. This comedy maven got his start in the agricultural world of Yuba City, California. Where the heck is that? The thing is there’s a lot of California people don’t pay attention to. When you say Northern California, people are like, “oh, San Francisco,” but the thing is, there’s still eight more hours of California north of there. So, I am from one of the shitty parts in the middle. I am from the prune capital of the world. What I learned being a Yubian is that we grow more peaches in my county in California than they do in the states of Georgia and South Carolina combined. A few agricultural facts for you. His homelife was colorful, a collaboration of religions and holidays. So, my dad was raised Southern Baptist and my mom was Jewish and it just meant that like, honestly, too much holiday snacking. No child should have access to both a chocolate advent calendar and latkes. [Laughs] I did, and it made me the large man I am today. But as a kid, I liked the fact that having Christmas took all pres sure off Hanukkah, so then Hanukkah just got to be like a chill evening to hang around the house and play some dreidel kind of operation. Very, very civilized. From agricultural and mixed religions, Branum emerged. Was he the class clown? Not remotely. When you are a queer comedy person, there is a healthy likelihood that no one in your little town understood you or found you funny. People found me weird, people didn’t find me funny. It took a long time before I found an audience, and once I did, I was desperately in love with them. It means a lot to me hav ing people who understand my material and my jokes. His first stop after high school wouldn’t be to the writing rooms of comedy just yet. He attended UC Berkley as a his tory and science major. There he caused a not-so-minor stir when the US Secret Service showed up at his apartment when his column for the student-run newspaper was mis quoted by the Associated Press, suggesting he was inciting the murder of President Clinton’s daughter. Already his writ ing was considered a hit! Literally. He then went to study law at the University of Minnesota Law School. It was during that time that he came out publicly.
“Came out publicly…” I like the idea that I had a press conference as a law student to announce myself. My press conference was a phone call to my parents, that was me coming out publicly. It was really rough - mom cries, dad gets angry. That’s how we did it back in the late ‘90s. None of these accepting parents like Jennifer Garner in Love, Simon. What inspired him to finally come out?
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Well, first was being 2000 miles away from my mother, I knew that she wouldn’t stab me during the course of the conversation. So that was helpful. July 11th is the day I came out to my parents. The week before on July 4th, I had watched a nice heterosexual couple be loving to each other. And I was just like, you’re never going to have that unless you come out of the closet and be honest about who you are. And another thing is, I was reading a book and it talks about how E.M. Forster (the guy who wrote Howard’s End and A Room with A View) never had sex with a man until he was 38. And I was like, again, that could very easily be you. So, I came out of the closet. I still never had sex with an Egyptian trolley car brakeman. So E.M. Forster has one up on me on that. How does a newly graduated law school scholar end up in the world of comedy?
Well, there are a fair number of lawyers who end up in comedy. I think Demetri Martin went to law school, Jack ie Fabulous was a lawyer. I think it’s just about wanting to be manipulative with language, wanting to herd and railroad other people by putting words together. And I definitely enjoyed that. I mean, everybody has to start somewhere. I’m a little bit weirded out by these New York comedians who all sort of did an individualized program at NYU to become a comedian, I think you should go off in some direction, realize that you hate the world that you’re in, and use that hatred to make your comedy. Guy would get his early start at G4, a network primarily focused on video games, putting the gay in gaming. He worked as a writer on Unscrewed with Martin Sargent and would appear on-camera as The Ambassador of Gay. At that time, the gaming industry was a very straight and ma cho-related community. Another early credit was working on Ashton Kutcher’s MTV prank show, Punk’d. Again, MTV
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Representation has come a long way since the Jack McFar lands of Will & Grace. There’s been a big push to represent the gay community as three-dimensional characters and not just the sassy stereotypes from years before. Guy’s film Bros is a celebration of several types of representation, with Guy playing a big character with a big personality. As part of that evolution in representation, and as a comedian, does Guy think that gay stereotypes can still be funny, or maybe even a little true?
In the mid two 2000s, it was a period of time when Neil Patrick Harris had to be outed, people were still very cautious and protective and I was just like, I’m going to be as unrepentantly loud as I can be. One of the cool things about Chelsea Lately is I wasn’t the only gay, Ross Matthews was there on a regular basis. Ross and I are not the most distinct visions of what queerness can be, but it’s still two different voices, you know? It was inter esting because there were gay people who were both ered by me being effeminate and there were gay people who were bothered by me being fat and didn’t like that was what was representing them. But also, that’s part of the danger that comes with not having enough rep resentation. In the 15 years that have passed, there are just more gay people in media and it’s easier for us to not have to feel that same burden of representation on people. But I can’t talk and have people not know that I’m gay, so I needed to talk about it.
GEDMAG.com | 33 at the time catered very much to the straight, male com munity. Guy’s experience with homophobia on these early projects was mixed. It was very strange at G4. When I started out, it was such a nerd space that all nerd energies were sort of respected, and the fact that like I could successfully speak and converse in nerd earned me a lot of respect from the peo ple I worked with. And that was great. But as time went on in, and corporations got more involved, there were more 50-year-old guys deciding what 21-year-old guys want to watch. They were like, this gay guy shouldn’t be on camera, it shouldn’t be obvious that we have gay people working here. It became one of the reasons that I left. It was just understanding that it was the space that no longer wanted me, but the people I worked with directly were all great and really progressive. I worked on this show for three years and the head writer before me was a queer woman, and the head writer after me was a gay guy. It was a pretty queer space. Along with being The Ambassador of Gay, he also appeared on camera as the gay opinionated guy on Chelsea Lately, and performed a segment called “No Mr. Nice Gay” on FX’s Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. Looking at how far we’ve come in terms of representation, was being the token gay a harmful stereotype?
I mean, it is difficult and I don’t know that I do the best job of it. My mom was a cafeteria lady, my dad was a construction worker, and I didn’t have a soft place to land if I wasn’t able to make this career work for me, that’s one of the reasons I went to law school. It took me a long time to get to a point where I felt comfortable saying no to work. It took me a long time to feel comfortable, being able to feel like I got to decide what was more important to me. I think part of it is just be ing very aware of what’s around you. I don’t want to do work anymore than anyone else. And sometimes when it comes to saying you’ll write a book or saying you’ll go be on set on a movie 16 hours a day trying to come up with jokes, sometimes you have to say yes to something to get something good out of yourself. Bros comes out September 30th. You can follow Guy on IG: @GuyBranum
20 years ago, when I came out of the closet, so many people were scared to admit or acknowledge that there was a culture that goes along with being gay, that there is a shared community identity. That is the result of homophobic pressures, making us scared to feel that way because that isolation keeps us weak. Our culture is rich and great. The way we lead our lives is different from the way straight or CIS people lead their lives, and I’m really proud of it. And I’m proud that Billy managed to make a movie that holds that close, that really loves the community and loves queerness. Also, it’s not just gay guys in this movie, everyone in the movie is played, whether the characters are straight or gay, CIS or trans, they’re all played by queer actors - a lot of lesbians, a lot of trans men and women. It was one of the loveliest ex periences I had with a group of people in my life. It was just everybody bringing their shine and sparkle to the table and not being scared of it and working together to make something that we could all be really proud of.
Guy truly has a lot to be proud of. From his early days at G4, he’s gone on to work on Comedy Central’s The Other Two, Hulu’s The Mindy Project, Fashion Police on E!, MTV’s Awkward, TruTV’s Billy on the Street and Talk Show The Game Show (as host and executive producer), and appeared as Na talie Portman’s bestie in No Strings Attached. As a comedian, he took part in the eighth season of Last Comic Standing and most recently, in Netflix’s Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Cele bration. Another glowing achievement is his memoir My Life as a Goddess, featuring his candid opinions and humor in essays about anti-fat bias and the representation of gays in the media, hailed by NPR and Entertainment Weekly. With his varied resume and big-name projects flowing his way, how does he prioritize what’s next?
Where did the idea for Trannyshack come from and what do you attribute the legendary success? It all happened very organically. I moved to San Francisco and met a lot of people in the underground scene there. I started doing theater within this group of people and began to dabble in drag roles. I also started working at the Stud bar at the same time, and they noticed that I knew a lot of “colorful” people. There was a traditionally dead Tuesday night slot that they didn’t know what to do with, so they asked me to try something. Since I was dabbling in drag, I decided to start a drag club and it just took off. I didn’t come from a traditional drag background so there were Photos courtesy of Heklina
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The year was 1996. I was living in San Francisco for five years and had progressed from the name of “Sally Rafael,” to “Farm Girl friend”, to finally arriving with the one that stuck: Ethylina Canne. I had been part of the club scene since moving to the city by the bay at the age of 19. My “performing” had consisted of being a nightlife personality and a random dancer on a go-go box or stage. I vividly remember a new hot spot that came to be at the STUD bar which was the hottest ticket in town. I met Heklina at that time and she offered me a spot in the “Trannyshack” show. I remember that I was so excited as this would be my first perfor mance lip syncing to a song on a stage in front of an audience. I rehearsed for a month straight, as she kept asking me if I was ready week after week. The time finally happened and the rest … well, is DRAG HERSTORY. I’m so happy she didn’t give up on me and kept asking, because it was truly the start of my drag career that has now spanned 27 years! So, Heklina started my career by giving me that opportunity, and she is such a gem, she has never once asked for royalties.
The two of us have shared so many fun times together and I’m so grateful she has recently moved to the desert, along with many of my friends from San Francisco. I was able to catch up with her to talk about the past, present, and future….
After years of being at the epicenter of nightlife in SF, how has your recent move to the desert changed your life and your drag? The pandemic forced my hand, and that is what made me move full-time down here. I left San Francisco the weekend when ev erything was shutting down in March 2020, as I most definitely was not going to spend the lockdown in my tiny San Francisco apartment. I’ve had to get used to the pace of Palm Springs for sure. I feel like before, my life in San Francisco was 100 miles an hour, then the pandemic happened, and I had to get used to a complete standstill. Now that things are picking up again my life is moving at 50 miles an hour and I like it. I don’t like being quite as busy as I used to be.
I am planning on doing another show in January both here in Palm Springs and in San Francisco. I may go do it in other cities like Seattle or Portland but for right now my life is divided be tween San Francisco and the desert.
You have recently created and performed your one woman show in SF and Palm Springs. What was that experience like, and do you plan on taking it on the road to other cities?
What exciting plans do you have to bring your SF parody shows to the Coachella Valley? Well, you know I’ve talked to you about this, but finding the right venue in Palm Springs has been a real challenge. I think for now the best spot for us is the Palm Springs Cultural Center. And we are going to be doing “Three’s Company” there over pride week end this year, November 3, 4, and 5. Keep an eye out, tickets will go on sale soon on Eventbrite.
was before social media and Drag Race. Do you think that either of those has changed the creative process of performers today for the better or worse? Oh God, I feel like I’ve answered this question a lot over the years. Yes, I think it has changed drag and that it has dumbed down the art of drag in a way, where people just look at make up tutorials on YouTube and try and copy their favorite star from RuPaul’s drag race. Not enough people let themselves form their own identity, so it’s kind of killed some creativity. It’s also kind of dumbed down the average drag or nightclub audience, where unless people know exactly what is happening before they go out, they won’t go out. There’s no mystery left. The great thing about club life before cell phones was you had to go OUT to find out what things were like! That was just the natural process of nightlife. You felt like you were missing out on something great. I could go on and on about it and people are always telling me I should be grateful that queer life has become mainstream, but I never wanted to become mainstream. I never signed on for that.
I’ve never written my memoirs, and it is definitely time!
www.ethylina.comEthylJoyfully,
I really enjoyed it. I have to say the show was just really a diary of sorts about what my life was like during the quarantine. And I was kind a half assed about the way that I threw it together, but people still seemed to enjoy it. I just know that I can do better.
Many stars graced the stage over the years on those Tuesday nights. Who was your absolute favorite of them all? Charo, because she was everything I dreamed Charo would be like. And Lady Gaga, who I had at the club maybe six months be fore she became a superstar. A lot of people talk about how they love the gays just so they can get that gay dollar, but I can tell you that Lady Gaga is completely genuine in her love for the gay Trannyshackcommunity.
Having such a long and prosperous drag career, what is one thing you have yet to do so far?
GEDMAG.com | 39 no rules at this club which people seemed to really like, there was a very punk rock edge to it, and it must be said that San Francisco was also a different city back then. It was a drag club on Tues day night where the show didn’t even BEGIN until midnight, it couldn’t happen now.
Check out everything about Heklina on social media via her Face book and Instagram accounts. If you head to one of her shows, tell them “Ethyl sent ya!”
Bobby Newberry Dancing Alongside Icons By Alexander Rodriguez Photo by Shaun Vadalla.
Performer Bobby Newberry’s career started when he was a young boy, teaching himself how to dance alongside the vid eos of MTV-made icons. From those early years, he has made a name for himself as a choreographer to the stars with his work being seen both onscreen and onstage around the globe. Now, he entertains audiences from center stage, heating up the scene for LGBTQ audiences and beyond. There was never any doubt that stardom was in the cards, being inspired by his pa tron saint Madonna and her documentary Truth or Dare. I thought wow, that’s what I want to do, that’s the artist I want to be. I even sat my family down and performed the “Like A Virgin” section which is obviously super inappropri ate for a little kid to do. [Laughs] But that just shows that I’ve always authentically been myself as an artist. Bobby’s unbridled authenticity made him a stranger in his own home while growing up in Orange County. Despite his drive and clear talent as a performer, he was bullied by his own fam ily. The artist we see today was created from Bobby’s resilience and his passion for the arts that would overcome his obstacles of childhood. His industry peers would become his family. It’s hard dealing with your family not supporting you. I dove into the work part of it. I focused really hard on training and threw myself into it, so I didn’t have to focus on my life outside and what I was going through. I would recom mend that if you want to follow your dreams, work hard and you will find a support system in your fellow dancers, singers, and teachers. I found so much comfort in my danc ing and singing family I met. I did a work-study/scholarship program in Orange County, and that’s where I got my strong training and support sys tem. That was support I never had before. That is what gave me the confidence and courage to even audition for the program in Los Angeles. Leanne was my teacher, my men tor. She gave me the courage to really pursue this. With a scholarship in hand, Bobby moved to Los Angeles at the age of 17 to study at EDGE Performing Arts Center in the heart of Hollywood. There he would get his formal training, studying with famed choreographers that had worked with Britney and Janet Jackson. Little did he know that his near future would also be laden with celebrity work. I was just so excited to get out of Orange County and start fresh that I literally didn’t care. I right away felt a huge relief as I was accepted and not judged for being gay. Meeting all the people I was on scholarship with was the best part of moving to LA for me. His self-taught style of hip hop and stylized movement cele brated the pop world around him. Being thrust into a formal setting, he was ready for the next stage of his career. The hard est thing about his training?
Ballet … the discipline is unreal. I cried so many days because it was just so hard, and I felt so behind because I
You have to really love it and push yourself all the time. The hard work that it takes to get there and the long, long, long hours of rehearsal, studio sessions, writing sessions, cre ative meetings, etc., that you must do to get that 30-minute set for a live show or a three-minute music video. It is a lot of work but at the end of the day, it’s worth it.
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didn’t train in ballet as a child like most ballet dancers do. This gave me the technique and skill set I needed. With no room in his apartment, he would practice ballet and his own signature movements until the early hours of the morn ing, outside of his garage with only the moon as his light. Eager to hit the scene, he was ready for his first professional audition. As life comes full circle, he would be auditioning for his early inspiration. Auditions are so scary when you are first starting out. I auditioned for Madonna, and I actually made it to the very end. She asked me if I surfed. [Laughs] I thought I was actu ally going to book it, but the project was canceled.
Word got out that there was a new dancer in town and that his moves were fierce. Bobby would go on to work with Nicki Minaj, the Pussycat Dolls, Girlicious, Jessie & the Toyboys, Porce lain Black, Lil’ Wayne, Taylor Dayne, Eva Longoria for Bebe, Missy Elliott, Jody Watley, Aaron Kwok, and on television shows like X Factor, Dancing with the Stars, Conan O’Brien, David Letterman, and America’s Got Talent. But his first gig? Controversial rapper Eminem. Eminem needed a choreographer to teach him how to dance like Michael Jackson for his music video, “Just Lose It.” Rewatch the video, that is all Bobby Newberry. Eminem was great. He was so nice. I was so nervous because I had heard he was not friendly to the LGBTQ commu nity. But he was nice, and the shoot was great. With years of success as a choreographer, Bobby knew it was time to go solo.
I have always wanted to be an artist. I have known since I was a little kid that that is what I wanted to do and that’s what I would ultimately do because there is nothing else that would completely fulfill me. He would release a string of successful singles, including “Dirrty Up” with Jessie and the Toy Boys, and would guest of Pussycat Doll Melody Thornton’s cover of La Roux’s “Bulletproof.” He was ready for his debut EP. #THENEWBERRYSPECIAL debuted on Billboard.com and the album’s music video for the first single, “Sweat,” featured dancers in the Mojave Desert moving around in the dirt, dancing in Bobby’s signature moves. It was a hit not only in the industry but on social media and caught the atten tion of Danity Kane who asked Bobby to open for their #DKNO FILTER Tour. Even with his success going solo, it was a stark difference from being a choreographer for someone else’s project. He was also coming into his own during a changing industry.
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Seeing Bobby perform onstage and sitting with him for an inter view are two totally different experiences. Onstage, he is a power house of energy and sexuality. Sitting next to you, he is sweet and understated. How does Bobby experience the difference?
I just want to thank them for staying with me on this journey and I hope that they love this album. Their love and support are what keep me pushing to continue to make more music and create more art, so a huge thank you to everyone that supports me it means the world to me.
Another equally successful relationship is the one that Bobby has with his fans. Through different styles, iterations, and genres, his fans are here to stay.
Bobby the person is much calmer than people would think. Bobby the person is also super critical of himself and insecure. It is something that I am working really hard to overcome.
You can follow Bobby on IG: @BobbyNewberry
During the summer, Bobby released “Escape” with Fia Nyxx and Sam J Garfield. With everything going wrong in the world and still deal ing with the after-effects of the worst of COVID, it was their answer to it all – let go and just dance. Keeping the party going, Bobby re cently released “Blackout,” – with a title that is pretty self-explanato ry. Through his positive messages, celebration of dance, and call to be yourself, each of Bobby’s songs are distinctly different. Listening through his library of music, you can hear Bobby mature and you can listen in to his journey as a performer.
I think my music has evolved over the years because I’m not afraid to try new styles of music and to constantly be inspired to try different things. My upcoming album has such an eclectic and diverse mix of music, and I am really proud of all the styles and emotions that I put into it. There are acoustic songs, pia no ballads, more hip-hop influenced songs … it is definitely a melting pot of music.
Sorry, boys…Bobby is married. With his many shirtless photoshoots, oozing sexuality in his projects, and avid social media fandom, how does Bobby’s career affect his relationship? My husband goes through phases. [Laugh] Sometimes he is su per supportive and other times he does not like the choices I make. I have always been an artist that likes to push boundaries and be open with my sexuality. He has come a long way and accepts me for who I am even though he doesn’t like it all the time. His secret to balancing a successful relationship and career? I think pre-Covid it was much more difficult because I was so busy touring and constantly leaving. Now I have spent a lot more time at home and I’ve learned how to have a little more balance with everything. Also voicing what you want and what you need in a relationship and being honest is the most import ant thing.
The playable characters are Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, Ra phael, April O’Neil, Master Splinter, with unlockable character Casey Jones (available after beating the story mode). The Original Turtles voice actors from the 1987 series reprise their roles for the new game. Music was composed by Tee Lopes from Sonic Mania, with contribu tions from guitarist Jonny Atma, rapper Mega Ran, singer Mike Patton, and Ghostface Killah and Raekwon of the group Wu-Tang Clan
Before his death, Leon Fou Bartfort was an average office worker with an overbearing sister. One day she forces him to finish a dating sim game for her, when he blacks-out, falls down some stairs, and dies. He wakes up and realizes that he is now in the world of the dating game he just beat. This is the begin ning of Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games Is Tough for Mobs or Otomegē Sekai wa Mobu ni Kibishii Sekai Desu. Based on the Japanese light novel of the same name illustrated by Monda and written by Yomu Mishima, the series is filled with magic, mystery, and may hem. Ruled by women Holfort Kingdom is Leon’s home until he can figure out if he can get back to his world. The men of this new world, noble born or not, are basically there for breading the next generation. Leon soon uses his knowledge of the story, characters, and hidden items to get out from under his father’s noble wife and her plans to marry Leon off to the highest bidder. This allows him to enroll into Holtfort Academy with a powerful A.I. named Luxion and enough treasure to pay for school. At the Academy, Leon meets and befriends both protagonists of the game - Olivia and her in-game rival Angelica Rapha Redgrave. This only happens after a new character enters, and it looks like she knows just as much about this game world as Leon, but she has plans to make herself the protagonist and starts collecting the would be love interests of Olivia. For fear of not knowing what will happen if the original story doesn’t play out, Leon tries his best to fix things. To see how Leon’s story turns out you can watch the show with subtitles or dubbed on Crunchyroll.
GAYME GUIDE with JOSH JAQUEZ AND STEVEN H. GARCIA
Shredder’s Revenge is now available Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge is a beat ‘em up game developed by Tribute Games and published by Dotemu. Shredder’s Revenge is a retro throwback with awesome pixel art visu als and 16 levels to play through, with a great playable character roster and some fun new and returning combat mechanics. There are two main modes in Shredder’s Revenge. The first is Story mode - a bit short in length, only around two to hours but, each stage also has optional side-content, challenges and collectibles you can even unlock a fan favorite character. The second mode is Arcade mode, and it’s all about action! Your team comes fully leveled up, but you’ll have a limited number of lives, giving it that old school challenge. Arcade mode also has three different difficulty settings and with every 200 villains de feated will gain you an extra life. In addition to the single-player mode, the game supports six-player cooperative multiplayer both online and locally. Players can high-five to share health or work together to per form special combo moves. It is wild with all six players at once, so much is happening and it’s a chaotic party making it a top game pick.
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