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The Ultimate Guide to Gay Gift Giving 2021 pt1 Take the guesswork out of your holiday shopping with these handpicked presents that’ll leave recipients jumping for joy

by Mikey Rox Stumped on what gifts to give your family, friends and neighbors this year? Check this list then check it twice – because while you’ve been naughty, they’ve been nice.

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YuJet Surfer Electric Jetboard

If ocean-based watersports scare the bejesus out of you – because sharks! – the YuJet Surfer Electronic Jetboard offers a compromise to satisfy your thrill seeking, all limbs intact. With a top speed of 24 mph, range of 16 miles, and a 40-minute ride time, users can sit or stand on the battery-powered, remote-operated board that quietly glides across lakes, rivers, canals, and other bodies of water devoid of man-eating monsters. $10,000, YuJetUSA.com

Traditional floss isn’t exactly a budget buster, but the Oclean W10 Water Flosser is a sleek, no-waste and, yes, cheaper-in-the-long-run alternative with five distinctive modes and four high-performance nozzles to keeps the crevices between those pearly whites crud- and cavityfree. $60, Oclean.com Flat Brim Wines

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Perfect for campground cooking or gourmet meals made at home, Darling Spring’s ultrapretty Mind-Pop enamel casserole pans by Kapka add a Pollock-splashed joie de vivre to

Bring a trio of varietals to the Thanksgiving table with Flat Brim Wines’ Not Series, including the 2020 “Not Tragic” Pinot Noir, 2020 “Not Basic” Picpoul/Roussanne, and 2020 “Not Extra,” which, if it were Opposite Day, two out of three would describe you to a T.

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Playcraft edges out its at-home gaming competition with the Georgetown Espresso Shuffleboard featuring solid wood construction, richly stained accent features, and furnituregrade finishes that are a far cry from the warped, frat boy-abused tables dying slow deaths in dive bars everywhere. $1,595, SawyerTwain.com ChefWave Milkmade

Wild Roots Spirits’ five-times filtered, five-times distilled corn-based vodkas – in seasonal flavors like pear, cranberry, and apple-cinnamon – will spice up your soft and hard holiday seltzers and sodas for a little added zip on your lips. $30, WildRootsSpirits.com Takumi by Yokai Express Not only can the Takumi machine cook ramen,

Round up your favorite rice, soybeans, nuts and oats for homemade vegan milk alternatives that cost pennies on the dollar compared to prepackaged versions of the same at your local supermarket. Just add water and a handful of your desired ingredient to churn out 20 ounces of liquid health in about 15 minutes. $200, MyChefWave.com Cambridge Audio Evo 75

dim sum, rice, dumplings, pasta and more, but it also has the dubious distinction of being the choice ramen-making machine of Tesla’s offices – because of course it is: Elon Musk wouldn’t be caught dead microwaving Oodles of Noodles like the rest of us broke-ass schlubs. $400, YokaiExpress.com Oliver Charles Sweater

You may not regard London, England, as synonymous with audio innovation, but you’ll change that tune after listening to your favorite artists streaming through Cambridge Audio’s Evo 75, the sleek, cutting-edge, all-in-one system pumping out crystal-clear sound quality fit for a queen – like you. $2,250, CambridgeAudio.com

What do you get when Tibetan yak wool meets the world’s most advanced 3D-knitting machines? An antimicrobial, soft-as-cashmere, day-to-night sweater that instantly becomes one of the most versatile and comfortable pieces in your closet that rarely needs washing. $220, Oliver-Charles.com

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Jinkx Monsoon and BenDeLaCreme on taking their holiday show back on the road

By Chris Azzopardi No, Jinkx Monsoon and BenDeLaCreme aren’t roommates. But the “RuPaul’s Drag Race” alums get that you might think so. After all, during our recent Zoom call, they _were_ sharing a physical space.

“We’re just together right now,” DeLa says, before kidding that “every time we’re getting ready for the holiday show, I kidnap Jinkx and hold her captive in my basement until the show is done. That’s our writing process.”

What does Jinkx have to say about all this? “I develop Stockholm Syndrome,” she says, “and have to be deprogrammed.” She adds that this is “how we create the illusion of sisterhood and togetherness on stage.”

Just the opposite is true, of course. There’s no illusion. Or basement. (We think.)

Instead, these two are drag sisters through and through, even if they love to feign the dramatic frenemy tension that makes, for example, their holiday shows an irresistibly catty treat. Though last year the pandemic got in the way of their live show — instead, they made the movie “The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Special” — they’re back on the road again this year for “The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show.”

I hope that you’re getting fed in that basement, Jinkx.

Jinkx Monsoon: Yeah. I gotta say one thing: As a

producer, DeLa makes sure I am fed and fed well.

BenDeLaCreme: Foie gras goose. Just a straw down the gullet, and just pile it in. Gotta keep my little cash cow goin’.

How do you plan on topping “The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Special”?

DeLa: Topping! Get it?

Jinkx: Yeah, we’re gonna top it consensually and with plenty of lube. Every year we have to ask ourselves: How are we gonna top last year’s show? And it just so happens that last year’s show was a film, so it’s a whole new list of obstacles and questions we must answer. But I think we’ll attack it the same way we do every year, which is to focus on: What is the message we want to send this year, specifically? What are the shared experiences our audiences can relate to this year? And how are we going to examine those themes and tropes and queries in a new and exciting way that no one’s ever done before. So just that.

DeLa: And fortunately, it seems to be a bottomless well of, um, topping jokes.

I would expect nothing less. Is there anything related to the pandemic?

DeLa: Of course. We’re in this rare moment where we’ve been through this collective trauma and now we’re going through this collective sort of joy that is also a trauma of beginning to reenter, so I think that it would be impossible for us not to address that.

Our thesis is always about really trying to hold all

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the complexities of how joyous and how difficult the holiday season can be, and this year there’s just a lot of layers on top of that.

Jinkx: I’m very much someone who takes what happens in my life, I form a story around it, and just tell you stories from my life. Whereas DeLa takes experiences from her life and then pushes it through a whole Play-Doh factory of synthesis and artifice and stylization. Our writing style together has become a marriage of those two ways of going about it. This year, because of the extenuating circumstances of the last two years, I think we’re leaning more into reality than in the past, but still maintaining that stylized [sense of] “How do we comment on reality [as] fictional drag queens?”

DeLa: The characters have been through everything that we collectively have been through, but we’re always gonna abstract it by having it be like a talking peppermint that’s gonna help us resolve our feelings, you know?

Jinkx: It’s not gonna be like group therapy; it’s gonna be like watching two crazy ladies.

DeLa: Because people wanna feel seen in their experience, but they also want a break, right? We need to experience some joy right now. So our hope is to bring all of those things.

Jinkx: Yeah. Live vicariously through us as we process trauma in an entertaining way.

[Laughs.] You get drunk and sit back, and we’ll do the work.

just a perfect example of certain things you can pull off in a movie that you can’t necessarily do on stage.

DeLa: All right, I’m getting the hint. I will be fully nude for this entire tour.

What are you most looking forward to when it comes to getting back on the road and being in front of a live audience?

Jinkx: Uh, how do I say all of it without it sounding like a cop-out answer?

DeLa: But it’s the actual answer. I mean, the actual relationship with the audience, the live energetic exchange, the exchange that we get to have with each other as like a threeway with the audience [laughs], for lack of a better way to speak about it. But I mean, I’m even looking forward to the stuff that usually is the hardest stuff. I’m looking forward to, you know, trying to sleep on an airplane unsuccessfully and then going straight to tech and having to do a show again. I just… I can’t wait to live life as a performer again.

Jinkx: Yeah, honestly, if I could take my cat on tour with us then I’d have it all. Oh, and my husband. [Laughs.]

You had a naked man in the TV special. Will you bring a naked man with you on stage for the live show?

DeLa: If only the Delta baggage limit would allow for a carry-on that heavy.

Is there something about Christmas that gives you a different kind of permission to be completely outrageous?

DeLa: I mean, we’ve never needed much permission. But what I do think is that generally it gives a lot of other people permission, which is why I think it’s such a successful marriage between drag and the holidays: because it’s a time of year where I think so many people indulge in that kind of excess.

Jinkx: Yes! Straight people have three points in the year to dress up like us. They have Halloween, Christmas and the Kentucky Derby, for some reason.

[Laughs.]

I’m sure you can find a man in every town willing to get naked.

Jinkx: We’ll put it in our rider.

DeLa: You know what? Shockingly, the man in each town you haven’t met that’s willing to get on stage naked is generally not the person you want on stage with you.

Jinkx: [Laughs.] I mean, if I had it my way, there’d be full-frontal nudity in everything that I do, but that’s

What part of getting into drag really makes you feel the Christmas fantasy?

DeLa: You know, I love being in drag much more than I enjoy getting into drag at this stage of my career. [Laughs.]

Jinkx: Yeah, if I had a button that I could just push that would put me into drag immediately, I’d give almost anything for that.

DeLa: That Judy Jetson helmet from the opening

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credits of “The Jetsons” that she just puts on, and then she’s gorgeous.

Jinkx: But I think it’s all gonna feel new again, now that I’m reentering the world like a hairless, pink little baby. [Laughs.]

The last live show in 2019 was called “All I Want for Christmas Is Attention.” What’s all you both want this year?

DeLa: Attention. [Laughs.] Turns out that I spoke too soon. I need it more now.

Jinkx: Yeah, with a heavy side of validation. And if there’s time, the dismantling of the patriarchy.

DeLa: Yes, the fall of capitalism and also for people to collectively take Covid safety and vaccines seriously enough for us to be able to go on tour without the constant fear that the rug could be pulled out at any moment.

[Laughs.]

Jinkx: Yeah. It feels like Michael Myers is stalking slowly behind us.

DeLa: But at least six feet away at all times.

Besides each other of course, who is your favorite queen that does something totally different from what you do?

DeLa: Totally different? But I like the queens who are like me!

Jinkx: Two of my other best drag sisters are Alaska and then Bob the Drag Queen. I feel like Bob the Drag Queen and I have very different styles but a shared central passion for what we do and a shared respect for the art form.

DeLa: I guess I was picturing that I had to think of something that was a far cry from what I do. I mean, they’re definitely different from you, but there’s definitely a world of theatricality within that.

I would say there’s a lot of drag queens who have really inspired me over the years. This performer doesn’t even really identify as a drag queen, but Dina Martina, who is also a storyteller and theatrical chanteuse, is one of the most brilliant performers out there.

If both of you returned to “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and did Snatch Game as a duo, which legendary iconic duo would you be?

Jinkx: The answer that’s right in front of us would be Ren and Stimpy.

DeLa: I don’t know that it’s the most interesting choice but Lucy and Ethel feel like maybe the most obvious choice. I would be really into doing Laurel and Hardy just because I’d like to see us in those looks.

Jinkx: Oh, I know my answer! Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.

Getting back to the holidays, what’s a holiday tradition that you wish would just die?

DeLa: I think we’ve killed most of the ones we don’t like already, but let’s see. I have to think back. I will say I do not enjoy gift giving. I like gift giving as a general practice, but at the holidays it seems transactional. Like, I wanna give a gift because I found a thing, and it made me think of somebody. In my family growing up, it was all very much like, “Here is this gift, but what do I get in return?” So that’s not something I enjoy. I prefer the experiences and the togetherness.

Jinkx: I’m trying really hard to think, and I just can’t. Like there’s plenty of traditions that I’m like, “What’s that all about?” But then there’s always a way to make ‘em fun.

DeLa: What about going to church in the middle of the night? I wanna let go of that one.

Jinkx: Yeah, anything that’s too religious-y.

[Laughs.]

DeLa: So Christmas?

Jinkx: [Laughs.]

DeLa: What Jinkx would do away with is Christmas.

Jinkx: [Laughs.] Yeah, I’d take us back to solstice, you know. Take us all the way back. You know, people are talking about how we go back to those old-timey Christmases of yore. I’m like, go all the way back.

Chris Azzopardi is the Editorial Director of Pride Source Media Group and Q Syndicate, the national LGBTQ+ wire service. He has interviewed a multitude of superstars, including Cher, Meryl Streep, Mariah Carey and Beyoncé. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, GQ and Billboard.

Reach him via Twitter @chrisazzopardi.

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1. Evaluate your Beard-ability and Face Shape. Can you grow a decent full beard? Consider your facial structure to determine which beard shape would be the most flattering.

There are many guides to help you figure this out online.

2. A Healthy Beard Starts on the Inside. You can help boost growth by eating more protein, collagen, and supplementing with Biotin.

3. Take Care of Your Skin. If you’re not already doing so, you need to be on a good, basic skincare regimen. Treat your beard, and the skin below it, just like your face and the hair on your head. And just like the hair on your head, you don’t need to shampoo your beard every day. Unless you drizzled it in queso or got last nights stank in it, I recommend allowing your natural oils to soften your beard and keep it healthy. When you do cleanse, use smoothing/softening shampoo or beard wash and conditioner. Personally I always used Aveda Smooth Infusion Shampoo/Conditioner. And be sure to get down to the surface and gently exfoliate the skin under your beard. It will be harder now for dead skin cells to naturally slough away, so you’ll need to give it a little help.

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Trimming and Shaping. Get a good set of beard clippers with a set of guards, beard comb and brush and scissors.

Again, there’s plenty of instruction on how to shape your beard online, but having a professional tackle it for you saves you the effort and risk of screwing it up and you deserve to be pampered. Usually a beard trim is an inexpensive add-on with a haircut. If you do want to attempt trimming, start with a longer guard and work your way down. Trimming around the neck and cheekbones there are two rules of thumb. Under the jawline, place your finger flat under your jawbone and trim under where your finger is, create that as your guide and follow it around to the other side. For the cheek area, take your comb and place one end at the top of your ear and the other to the corresponding corner of your mouth - trim above that line.

Above your upper lip, decide if you want your mustache over, at, or slightly above your lip. I like to begin my trimming with scissors first then going in with the edgers or clippers to finish.

5. Styling Your Beard. So, your now past the awkward and sometimes itchy part of growing your beard.

Depending on the length and fullness and desired look will determine how much time and effort you put into styling. Generally, after you shower and towel dry, you can use your facial moisturizer in your beard, try getting it down to the surface. If you like a scruffier look, you can just let it air dry at this point. For a more groomed appearance, you’ll need a good grooming or smoothing cream. I recommend Aveda Smooth Infusion Naturally Straight, or Glossing Straightener. These all come in affordable travel sizes and you only need less than a peasized amount. Incorporate it into your beard and comb it through for even distribution. Now it’s time to blow-dry.

Get a blow dryer with a concentrator attachment and use it with your comb to smooth and shape your beard.

This should smooth and straighten enough for most days. For an even more polished look you can pickup a beard straightener. I love the original straighter, the Kuschelbär from Masc by Jeff Chastain. It’s a great, must have tool for an epic beard and you can even use it to smooth and style unruly hair up top too! https://mascbyjeffchastain.com/ This sounds like a lot, but it should take less than ten minutes once you get the hang of it.

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Finish. There are tons of beard potions and oils available. These generally do not actually condition the beard; the base oil molecules are usually too large to penetrate the cuticle of the hair. But the smell nice and help moisturize the skin. My biggest advice on any beard oil is less is more. No one wants to kiss you and get a taste of your beard oil on their lips. Apply 3-5 drops of a good quality oil in your hands, warm it up and work it through your beard. Grab your comb and brush and smooth everything into place! Happy No-Shave November!

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Let's do it one more time....bringing Neonblk back to Mary's!

Come see this show created to make a space for black queer performers to shine. The only all-black drag show in EAV is coming back to Mary's on Thursday, August 12th at 9:30pm with a cast full of ya faves. $5 cover.

Featuring:, Ella/Saurus/Rex, Dotte Com, Malachi, Jaque Strap, SZN ALXNDR and Drew Friday Fur Ball Masquerade @ The Fox Theatre | November 12th (8-11 PM) Held in the Egyptian Ballroom of the Fox Theatre, the third annual Fur Ball Masquerade will feature heavy hors d'oeuvres, an open bar, live entertainment, a silent auction, beats by DJ Sed, a souvenir mask, and more!

We're keeping prices the same as 2019! General admission ($75) and VIP tickets ($100) are on sale now. VIP includes access to a cocktail hour from 7-8 p.m. and a gift bag. Tickets will not be sold at the door.

Ritual: Nightmare Before Christmas @ Heretic | November 12th (10 PM- 3 AM) Welcome to our final phase of 3 months of Halloween! Join our nightmare filled with dark delights from the twisted mind of Tim Burton.

10pm * $10 * 21+ DJ System Fail returns to bring your favorite dark tracks to the dance floor!

Making his live RITUAL debut MEA rounds out the DJ lineup.

Introducing Dark Bunny Studios as our featured artist and vendor. She will be selling lewd art, spooky cute hemp wick lighter cases, backless shirts and tattoo balm. Be sure to check her out in the Chill Room located in the back right of the club.

DJ Ben Bakson @ Heretic | November 13th (10 PM - 3 AM) Opening set by Mike Pope Alan Collins presents Ben Bakson at Heretic.

HOTLANTA Indoor Soccer Practice @ XL Sports World GA | November 14th (11 AM - 12 Noon) Hotlanta, on the 14th Nov (Sunday), 11am, we will be having an indoor soccer training session at XL Sports World at Fairburn, GA (XL Sports World, 1245 Oakley Industrial Blvd, Fairburn, GA 30213). This session is intended for the Hotlanta team going to La Vegas in Jan 2022, but all others ARE encouraged to come and practice and scrimmage.

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Same issues here, and this is what I tell myself EVERY YEAR! 1. Make sure that you have a space or place to go when things start to heat up. You can have the moment to escape and cool off before coming back.

2. Find a way to still enjoy the things that YOU DO while you are home with family. If you like to do yoga, find a local studio to take class while you are home, etc.

3. Understand that sometimes toxic family members need to just be cut out of your life... and that is okay. They're causing you hurt and pain... so therefore, why are you bothering?

4. It's the holidays... everyone is in high stress mode. Normalize the fact that this can happen.

Be safe this holiday season, and best of luck!

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Just because the New Year is around the corner, that should not stop you from making some lifestyle changes now. You are a strong individual, but there are aspects in your life that you have been needing to focus on for some time now and you can begin to change the negative aspects to go into the holidays and 2022 with a fresh start.

You have had a rough few weeks there, Sag. So this week make sure that you are taking time to really take care of yourself. Be gentle with your heart and how much you are taking on. You want to over book yourself but you would be doing yourself a disservice. You need to take time to have a glass of wine and relax at home. You have it in you to relax... so do it.

Because the moon is in your social zone this week, it is the perfect time for you to network and find new connections within your existing hang out spots, or maybe venture to some new ones. Who knows what lies ahead for you this week, but all we know is this: you are going to be the belle of the ball wherever you go! Make sure to dress to impress and reach for opportunity!

You are feeling like a true over-achiever this week, Aquarius. How do you find ways to navigate all the things you want to do but also navigate the things you are CAPABLE of doing? You can't do it all, so you need to make sure that you dont over book yourself and hang on by a thread. Too often in your life already have you seen that thread snap.

It is time to trust your intuition this week, Pisces. You have an inkling that you need to find some deeper information out about someone around you, and you're about to do just that. DIg deep. The thirst for knowledge is strong this week and you dont know why, but take in everything around you and allow yourself to live in the moment.

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It is time for you to focus on re-branding yourself going into the new year.

Because you have a focus on your brand and your future right now, you can have the ability in these next few months to really set yourself apart from others and make yourself shine. Get yourself focused and the world is yours.

Expect to do a lot of traveling in the coming months, Taurus. You have been able to settle down for some time now, so you need to make certain that you have everything in order so you can begin your travel. You have a lot to see and a lot to do; so whether it is going home or going on vacation, make the most of it and enjoy it for what it is worth.

Relationships are about to get even more serious in the next few weeks.

Because you have been skating around ideas of intimacy with your significant other, and avoiding what could develop next... it is going to come to a head and you're going to be in shock about how much deeper the relationship can go!

Whether it’s watching your favorite comfort movie, working on a creative project, or getting romantic with your lover, do what brings you joy. You are wanting to spend this week making yourself happy but you are worried about it making you seem "selfish". So what? Be selfish for a moment. You deserve to be happy much like the others around you!

You are about to enter into a space of habitual training, Leo. You are going to form new habits within the next few months but because you can get addicted to things easily, we need to make sure that you are getting into the habit of something that will BENEFIT you, not hurt you!

You are going to be EXTRA productive this week, Virgo. You are going to be making business calls, gathering information, making sales, etc.

Everything that you are about to do is about ONE THING: your brand!

Make sure that you are on point with scheduling because it can come back to bite you in the ass too.

The moon is going to shine light on your financial situation right now, Libra. You are either going to gain money or lose money this week, and how that happens is up to you. Consider it a prize or a detriment to you being one with the universe in this moment and truly seeing if you are listening to the guides around you.