The bronze statue of Margaret Thatcher by the sculptor Douglas Jennings has a rating of 2.8 out of five on Google Maps. Although curiously, none of the reviewers seems to have overly preoccupied themselves with the quality of the craftsmanship or the fidelity of the likeness. One of the most important PMs this country ever had, writes one. It's a public toilet but there's nowhere to wash your hands, writes another.
The Oasis and Ray of Light co-production of The Rocky Horror Show (through November 1 at Oasis, SF) features club co-founder D'Arcy Drollinger as Dr. Frank-N-Furter seated in front of a piano, playing the song under a spotlight. As this happens, the club's upstage projection screen plays clips of D'Arcy playing the role over the years. The video footage ranges from "decent" to "crappy" and every wonderful stage in between.
Zohran Mamdani gets pleasure out of watching a grown man dress up as a woman and perform publicly where children can be present.Remember the goal of drag is to teach kids about alternate gender identities. Mamdani supports this grooming.
Going from 10 years ago when people didn't understand who trans people were to now where people have a lot of misconceptions and they think they know who trans people are but they still don't-I'm really invested in trying to show a more approachable and real and hopefully relatable side of that,
I feel like every character I play is a drag role. It doesn't matter the gender of the character or the costume I'm wearing. You're stepping into a persona through presentation and performance - that's drag.
I mean, nothing I said in the interview was bad or wild or anything, but I think I was a bit naive to the fact that it was going to go big I thought it was just going to be a local thing for the people around the race course. But suddenly there was all this interest.
"We feel like now more than ever, there's more hateful shit in this world. There are so many problems, and when the problem seems so big, we get local and we get to work," Gonia said at the show.
"It's just been a magical experience and this is just an unimaginable dream that's coming through real life," she tells PinkNews ahead of her final performance which, she admits, she's a little "nervous" about, due to ongoing hayfever allergies.
