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BIANCA DEL RIO Feel the “Hate,” South Florida by Cliff Dunn Photos courtesy of Murray Hodgson. MPPresent

As she readies herself for two South Florida performances this month, internationallyfamous drag entertainer Bianca Del Rio has some large pumps to fill. she readies herself for two South o AsFlorida performances this month, internationally-famous drag entertainer Bianca Del Rio has some large pumps to fill. Del Rio—whose “Rolodex of Hate” tour comes to Miami’s Colony Theatre on Saturday, January 24, and the Broward Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday, January 25—hasn’t exactly had a rapid rise to success, but her experiences of the past several months have been whirlwind. I asked her how her life has changed since winning season six of RuPaul’s Drag Race. “Well, I keep getting asked the same six questions every day by reporters—I’m kidding, you’re a doll,” she answers by way of barb-and-apology-all-in-one. I promise to do better, and (thinking fast) I mention ‘in passing’ that I read last month that the New York Times had referred to the 39-year-old entertainer as “the Joan Rivers of the Drag World.” “Oh my God—what an amazing compliment,” she enthuses. “And what a terrific lady she was. I was privileged to work with her on her web series. What an amazing career she had. It was effortless to work with her, she was such a professional, a real lady.” She adds, “Now she’s gone, we’re left with the goddamn Kardashians.” The self-proclaimed “clown in a dress” (who was born Roy Haylock) gained immediate notoriety in her native Louisi-

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ana, breaking onto New Orleans’ gay scene in 1998. “I always loved being artsy and creative,” she explains. “I got into performing because of my love of costume design. “With theater, the show’s opening, the show’s closing. But costume design is a lifelong love of mine. Sadly, I’m not doing it now because of my schedule, but I know that I will get back into it before long.” Following high school in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, Del Rio (then still going by her birth name of Haylock) moved briefly to New York City, where she worked at Bloomingdale’s before returning to Louisiana. Back in New Orleans, Haylock began performing in drag artist for the 1996 play Pageant. Practically overnight, Del Rio was catapulted to the top tier of her performing art, netting the honors as New Orleans’ Gay Entertainer of the Year for three straight—no pun intended—years. “I called it the ‘golden handcuffs’. The money was great, I was getting a lot of exposure, but it wasn’t fulfilling.” After Hurricane Katrina, Del Rio returned to New York City. This time around, her sights were set on bigger horizons than Bloomie’s. “The irony is that without the hurricane, none of the success that followed would have happened. But after Katrina, I had a lot of time on my hands, and a friend from theguymag

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New York called and said come out here. So I took a chance, and of course it has paid off.” In 2010, Del Rio’s wicked wit and outrageous persona were showcased in the gay. com web series Queens of Drag: NYC. Del Rio shared billing with notable Big Apple drag performers including Lady Bunny, Dallas DuBois, and Hedda Lettuce. “There is a lot of great performing talent all over the country. But one thing I discovered is that as a drag performer, you have to find what you do well, and then stick with that—perfect it. If lip-synching is your thing, great, if you’re a glamor girl, be that. “You have to say, ‘This is what I am.’ “With comedy, you really have to focus on the art. You can be a bitch—but to be funny, you have to be a c***. And that means you have to be smart.” In 2011, Del Rio in Logo TV’s Stand Up: Dragtastic! NYC. Two years later, she was selected to be among the 14 drag entertainers who would compete on the sixth season of Logo’s hit series RuPaul’s Drag

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Race, which aired in 2014. After winning three challenges—and becoming an international fan favorite in the process—Del Rio beat fellow finalists Adore Delano and Courtney Act. The first Hispanic winner of the competition (she is of Cuban/Honduran descent), Del Rio was also only the second winner to reach the finale without having to lip sync for her life. She is also noteworthy in the competition for being the first contestant to make it through without ever placing low or at the bottom of a challenge. Revisiting old ground, I venture to ask her how winning on RuPaul has impacted her, in a tangible way. “It’s heart-wrenching,” she begins, “having to pay so much in goddamn taxes.” With a new year, the self-described “erotic clown” plans to ride the crest of that beautiful wave of success as far as it takes her. For her South Florida fans, Del Rio says she can’t wait to come back to the Gold Coast. “I love South Florida,” she says, “even though the people there still haven’t figured out how to vote. “With this new tour, we have a fun question-and-answer segment, and no subject is off-limits, so I hope everyone comes prepared to ask whatever they have on their mind. “I am very grateful for the opportunity and the validation that winning has given me. I was actually considering retiring from performing when I turned 40, which is coming up in June. RuPaul’s Drag Race turned that completely on its ear. That having been said, the winning is lovely, but I am grateful to be where I am right at this moment.” Long live the (drag) queen.

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THE BOYS OF LEBOY Sean David (far right), owner of the now-defunct Johnny’s, introduces some of the “boys” of his new club LeBoy

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THE WEEK Philomena (Courtesy of The Weinstein Company)

Philomena, Shenandoah, and The Hunt

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Friday Film: Philomena

o Audra McDonald is considered one of the best Broadway talents of our era. She is a six-time Tony winner and star of such classic musicals as Carousel and Porgy and Bess. She performs in both musicals and dramas, having been featured in the award-winning Raisin in the Sun. She also had some parts on both the silver and small screen, starring as Naomi Bennett in Private Practice and appearing in the films Cradle Will Rock, The Object of My Affection, and Seven Servants. Tonight she continues her active concert schedule with a performance at Parker Playhouse. 8:00 p.m. Parker Playhouse. 707 NE Eighth St. Fort Lauderdale. 33301.

o The Society of the Four Arts hopes to bring cultural programming to the resort area of Palm Beach. Founded in 1936, the sensational nonprofit has fostered a growing artistic community. Tonight they offer the critically acclaimed film Philomena, starring the legendary Judi Dench as a woman reuniting with the son she was forced to give up for adoption. She forms an unlikely bond with journalist Martin Sixsmith and together they embark on an emotionally fraught journey of discovery. 2:30 p.m. Society of the Four Art. 2 Four Arts Plaza. Palm Beach. 33480.

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THE WEEK Freddy Cole o With a jazz career lasting over fifty years, Freddy Cole is a legend in the industry. Not only is he a solid musician in his own right, but he is also a relative of two of America’s most famous music legends—he is Nat King Cole’s brother and Natalie Cole’s uncle. His discography begins in 1952 with the album The Joke’s on Me and ends in 2013 with his newest album This and That. Tonight, he takes the stage at the Arts Garage, showing off his skills as both a singer and a pianist. 7:30 Arts Garage. 180 NE First St. Delray Beach. 33444.

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La Cage Aux Folles o The classic gay musical La Cage Aux Folles has seen many incarnations, including a successful Broadway revival and a hit Robin Williams film titled The Birdcage. At its heart, the musical is about the importance of love, acceptance, and family. Two gay nightclub owners must impress their straight son’s fiancée’s conservative parents. Hilarity, drag, and beautiful musical sequences ensue. The musical was composed by classic composer Jerry Herman and includes the hit song “The Best of Times.” 7:30 p.m. Wick Theatre. 7901 N Federal Highway. Boca Raton. 33487.

Gino Vannelli and Jon Secada o Canadian singer-songwriter Gino Vannelli has made a name for himself since 1973 and the album Crazy Life. He will be accompanied by a seven-piece band while performing songs like “I Just Wanna Stop,” “Living Inside Myself,” “People Gotta Move,” and “Black Cars.” Jon Secada is no stranger to South Florida—he grew up in Miami, receiving his big break writing songs and singing back-up for local legend Gloria Estefan. As one of the hottest Latin artists recording in the 1990s, he won two Grammys for Spanish-language albums and has had a few crossover singles, including “Just Another Day” and “Do You Believe in Us.” 8:00 p.m. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. 701 Okeechobee Blvd. West Palm Beach. 33401.

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The Hunt

o The 1965 film Shenandoah starring Jimmy Stewart is the source material for this 1974 musical by Gary Geld. The plot deals with widower Charlie Anderson’s ambivalence with participating in the American Civil War. He is forced to take action when his youngest son is taken prisoner by the Union army. He deals with a slew of different personal tragedies during this difficult time in American history. 8:00 p.m Delray Square Performing Arts. 4809 W Atlantic Ave. Delray Beach. 33445.

o The Aventura Arts and Cultural Center continues its Foreign Film Series with tonight’s screening of the award-winning Danish film The Hunt. Mads Mikkelsen won the Best Actor Award for the role at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival; he plays Lucas, a lonely kindergarten teacher whose life is devastated by a lie when one of his students falsely accuses him of assault. The film’s setting is a small Danish village and, thus, Lucas becomes the target of mass hysteria, shunned for nearly a year while fighting the charges.7:00 p.m. Aventura Arts and Cultural Center. 3385 NE 188th St. Aventura. 33180.

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Daniel’s Husband o Not even a week into the legalization of gay marriage in Florida, this play by Michael McKeever explores the now eradicated problems of being a gay couple not officially married. Under the leadership and guidance of Jan McArt, the New Play Readings program develops new plays through staged readings such as this one. McKeever is a well-respected playwright in South Florida having written such plays as 37 Postcards, Suite Surrender, and Mel. 7:30 p.m. World Performing Arts Center at Lynn University. 3601 N Military Trail. Boca Raton. 33431.

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Jimmy Webb o Jimmy Webb is known for a slew of platinumselling classics he composed, including “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” “Galveston,” “All I Know,” and “Mac Arthur Park.” Some of the greatest artists of the past fifty years has worked with him, including Judy Collins, Donna Summer, Amy Grant, Jon Denver, Johnny Cash, Billy Joel, and Carly Simon. Lately he has been recording his own music on albums Just Across the River and Within the Sound of My Voice. His popular cabaret act will feature some of his greatest hits and his new material. 7:30 p.m. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. 701 Okeechobee Blvd. West Palm Beach. 33401. theguymag

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DEEP INSIDE HOLLYWOOD

The Year in Gay o

Once upon a time, in the bad old days of closets and media resistance to gay stories of any sort (much less attempts to cover the entire LGBT spectrum with anything resembling nuance or empathy), we would have struggled to come up with enough events to fill an year-end column about developments in queer entertainment. Now we have to edit out the ones you’ve heard about a million times already (sorry, Looking, everybody knows you exist now). Here’s what gave us life this year:

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that, then you’ve got some Paris is Burning homework to do), and that’s what 15-year-old Brendan Jordan did to local news segment when everyone else in the crowd stood behind the reporter behaving themselves. The teenager chose to vogue, as one should, and now he’s a sassy, face-giving YouTube star and a model for American Apparel. Flamboyance is the new black

2. OLD GAY GUYS AT THE MOVIES Love is Strange, a heartfelt and moving feature from director Ira Sachs, explored the trauma of being gray, gay and separated from your spouse due when resources, both financial and social, are strained. Alfred Molina and John Lithgow were the most tender big screen LTR of the year.

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5. MICHAEL SAM AND THAT KISS NFL pick (and then NFL drop) Michael Sam reacted to being the first openly gay NFL draft pick by kissing his boyfriend in a sweet, spontaneous act of joy. And then everyone freaked out about it. So we haven’t come as far as we’d like. But now that door is open. And he is the man who opened it. May it never close again. 6. SAM SMITH SINGING LOVE SONGS TO MEN ON THE RADIO

Scandal was just the beginning of major networks getting pushy with gay sex scenes. This show just upped the stakes. You haven’t seen guys getting down on primetime like this before. Proof that Shonda Rhimes does whatever Shonda Rhimes wants.

It’s happened before, of course, but for some reason, when Erasure’s “A Little Respect” was popular in the ’80s, the media tried to pretend they hadn’t heard Andy Bell ask a man not to forsake him. Smith laid it down by coming out quickly and backing it up with insane singing talent. Adele may be taking a much-needed vacation, but Smith is stepping in to pick up the slack.

4. BRENDAN JORDAN MOPPING THE TV NEWS

7. CHRIS ROCK QUESTIONING LABELS IN TOP FIVE

“Mopping,” of course, means stealing (and if you don’t know

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8. DYKE & FATS Saturday Night Live’s women are killing it lately, and Kate McKinnon and Aidy Bryant are, separately, comedy forces of nature. But when they teamed up for a fake commercial for a fake buddy cop show, it was a shots fired moment for table-turning jokes about women’s bodies, lesbians and tired cliché. Dyke & Fats should be a real show. Maybe it can air in the middle of the night after Too Many Cooks.

1. LAVERNE COX ON THE COVER OF TIME The Emmy-nominated actress was the face of Time magazine’s “trans 101” article. It was a first. It was history. It was remedial, too, but what can you expect from straight people (and clueless gays, too, don’t forget)? Even better, Cox co-hosted The View more than once, which is going to reach millions more people than a print magazine. Watch her run.

a spoiler, so watch out) that her boyfriend probably just had sex with another man, then readily states that she’s had girlfriends in the past herself but isn’t a lesbian, Rock grills her: “So he has sex with a man one time and that makes him gay?” This, friends, is how progress gets made, one punch line at a time.

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Trans activists took exception to the casting of a heterosexual male in the role of a late-middle-aged trans woman, but Jeffrey Tambor has risen to the task in this funny, moving series. There will come a time when trans actors will routinely be called upon to play more trans roles (see Laverne Cox above) and TV needs its feet held to the fire to make that happen. But for now, we’re thrilled with any forward momentum. 10. SAMIRA WILEY This Orange is the New Black player got her own heartbreaking storyline this season and is poised to be the next breakout star of that series. She also snagged the show’s previously-hetero-identified creator as her new girlfriend. Lesbian drama!

Romeo San Vicente would like to wish you a Happy New Year. In jail. (Hat tip to It’s a Wonderful Life.) He can be reached care of this publication or at DeepInsideHollywood@qsyndicate.com.

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Lonely Planet Most Welcoming LGBT Vacation Spots, Part 2 By Rick kaRlin

In our last issue, we took a look at the vacation spots Lonely Planet deemed the most LGBT friendly. As a reminder, they were; Copenhagen, New Zealand, Toronto, Palm Springs and Sitges, Spain. What better way to start the New Year than picking up where we left off, with the remaining locales that made the top ten? #6 Berlin, Germany #7 Skiathos & Mykonos, Greece #8 New York City #9 Reykjavik, Iceland #10 Montevideo, Uruguay Berlin’s inclusiveness made it a gay mecca as early as the 1920s. Hitler squashed a lot of that and it’s taken Berlin a long time to bounce back. However, since the end of the cold war it has become one of Europe’s most vibrant cities. The LGBT community’s presence is especially strong in the districts of Kreuzberg, Prenzlauerberg and Schoneberg, home to most of the city’s LGBT bars, club and businesses. BarbieBar (Mehringdamm 77, 49-3069568610) is a campy drag bar with mixed clientele. Bears tend to habituate Bärenhöhle (Schönhauser Allee 90, 49-30-44736553) and Woof (Fuggerstraße 37, 49-30-23607870). For dancing, check out Die Busche (Warschauer Platz 18, 49-30-2960800) or Connection Club Berlin (Fuggerstraße 33, 49-30-2181432), also known for its basement labyrinth. Annual gay highlights in Berlin are “Xposed,” The International Queer Film Festival (May 21–24), the LGBT Pride Parade and street festival (June 20-21), Folsom Europe (Sept. 13-14) and in keeping with the city’s reputation for kink: Fetish Week (Apr. 1-7). For the most up to date info, check out Siegessäule, Berlin’s LGBT magazine. Skiathos and Mykonos are the gayest of the islands off the coast of Greece. Mykonos is more of a party town, while Skiathos offers a more laid-back atmosphere. Both are so small that you don’t need addresses, everyone

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knows where everything is. Much of the LGBT activity is focused on or near the beaches (Elia, Super Paradise, Paradise and Paranga on Mykonos or the ironically named Small Banana in Skiathos). If you’re bar-hopping in Mykonos, the best time to go to Sunset Bar in the Elysium Hotel (+30 228923952. www.elysiumhotel.com) is at its titular time, when you’ll be rewarded with breathtaking views of landscapes and hot men. Montparnasse (4, Ag. Anargyron St., +30 6946620273) is a piano bar. Babylon and its sister bar JackieO’ (Paraportiani waterfront, +30 2289077168) have outdoor sofas overlooking the sea. In Skiathos, not known for its raucous nightlife, there is only one gay bar, DeFacto (37002 Skíathos, +30 6986386266). The biggest LGBT event on Mykonos is “XLSIOR” a multi-day beach party running Aug. 19-23. For more information, go to xlsiorfestival.com. New York City is the only large U.S. city to make the cut, fitting since it is the birthplace of the modern LGBT rights movement. While in Greenwich Village stop by and pay homage to The Stonewall, where it all began. Other significant LGBT landmarks, including the Harvey Milk School and the theguymag

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for information on packages for many events. Capturing the final spot on Lonely Planet’s Top 10 List is Montevideo, Uruguay. In 1934, Uruguay decriminalized homosexuality and was the first Latin American country to legalize same-sex marriage in 2013. The capital city, Montevideo, is home to a small, yet vibrant LGBT community. The best season to visit Uruguay is from September to April. The “March of Diversity” takes place the last Friday in September. The parade culminates with live music and theme parties at major nightclubs gay friendly city. If you plan to hit the clubs, take a long afternoon nap, because things don’t get hopping until well after midnight. Everyone goes to Chueca (Brandzen 2172, 598 24 029 979, www.chueca.com), a mellow lounge, before hitting the clubs. Il Tempo (Gonzalo Ramirez 2121, 598 98 679 533, iltempoclub.com) and Cain (Cerro Largo 1833, www.caindance. com), pronounced “Caa-eeen” are the big dance clubs. For something a little grittier, check out Chains (Soriano 827, 598 94 020 468) a men’s club or Sauna Horus (Julio Herera y Obes 1240, saunahorus.com). Although progressive in protecting the rights of the LGBT community, excessive public displays of affection are not advised.

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