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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Jordy Jones
Event Coordinator
Some Kind of Queer Party
jordy_jones@yahoo.com
http://transbay.org/skoq
“Some Kind of Queer”
A Party for Trans, Drag, Intersex, Genderqueer and Beyond
A Benefit for the New Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center
San Francisco, CA – February 14, 2002 – Trans-Art, TransBay and Tranny Fest present an extravaganza of Trans, Drag, Intersex and Genderqueer talent — a benefit for the new Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center. This fundraising event boasts two floors of fun featuring bands, djs, performance artists, spoken
word and dance. The party also includes artistic video installations, a cool video lounge, a “Drag Flag Patio Party”, and “Chill Rooms” — specially sponsored and thematically decorated rooms in which partygoers are invited to hang out, relax and chill with friends. Refreshments will be provided and attendees are encouraged to dress to impress.
Where: The Community Center 1800 Market @ Octavia, San Francisco
When: Saturday, March 9, 2002
Performances from 7:00PM – 1:00AM
Admission: $5 – $20 Sliding Scale/ No one turned away for lack of funds
Performers
Shawna Virago and the Deadly Nightshade Family
Featuring local trans-activist Shawna Virago on guitar and lead vocals. With tunes like “Sailor’s Mouth” and “Tranimal,” this smart band combines in-your-face lefty politics with buzz saw guitar work. Queer Performance Artist Tina D’Elia calls them “dangerous entertainment.” Hedwig’s got NOTHING on Sexy Rocker Chick Shawna Virago!
Heklina: The Mistress of Trannyshack
This midnight drag showcase has become the stuff of legend, and what becomes a legend more than this Queen of the Night?
Thea Hillman
This intersex activist is the author of the critically acclaimed Depending on the Light (Manic D Press). A San Francisco poetry slam champion, Thea has performed her work at festivals, bookstores, and reading series across the country.
Marcus Rene Van
Marcus is a performance poet living in San Francisco. He uses poetry to fuse realistic tales about being a transgendered poet of color with his love of hip-hop. Outside of slam, Marcus has traveled to venues all over the nine counties of the bay area and beyond, spitting bold lyrics to incense racist and homophobic minds.
The Transcendence Gospel Choir
This is the world’s first transgendered gospel choir. The choir’s mission is to empower the strong spiritual calling of the transgender experience by reclaiming the mystical and healing essence of our trans-ancestors through music ministry. In this way we will challenge intolerance and hatred, transcend boundaries and restore hope.
Annie Sprinkle
Annie has devoted the past 27 years to passionately researching and exploring sexuality, from the sacred to the profane. She has documented and shared her findings through films, photography, and workshops. For the past decade she has toured her controversial one-woman theater shows internationally to great acclaim. Annie co-directed the first female to male transsexual love story in 1989, Linda/Les & Annie.
Juanita More
Juanita is one of the more strongly felt drag personas in current San Francisco circles. Never one to hide her light under a bushel, the garrulously extroverted Juanita performs at local comedy clubs, nightclubs and special events, armed to the heels with a masterful lip-syncing ability and undeniable charisma. Her instinctive love for the coin of the realm, coupled with an almost lunatic altruistic bent has led Juanita to raise over $100,000 for Queer causes and AIDS charities including Visual Aid, AIDS Benefit Counselors, Academy of Friends and the Larkin St. Youth Center
Full list of Performers
- BJ - The 1st San Francisco Drag King
- Ali Cannon
- Ms. Bob Davis
- Deep Dickollective
- Solidad DiCosta
- Sean Dorsey
- Thea Hillman
- Veronica Klaus
- PatRIOTism - A GALLOfornia Fashion Splat with Paul Gallo, Vince Black and House of Bianca
- Matthue Roth
- Max Wolf Valerio
- On a Butch Trip
- Annie Sprinkle
- Marcus Rene Van
- Transcendence Gospel Choir
- Shawna Virago and the Deadly Nightshade Family
- The Woodyz
MCs
- Machiko Saito
- Tina D’Elia and Zulma Oliveras
- Sister Kitty Catalyst and Sister Roma of The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
- Heklina and Pippi Lovestocking of Trannyshack
- Fairy Butch
- Cooper Lee Bombardier
DJs
Additional Attractions
- Tranny Fest Video Lounge by Alison Austin, Christopher Lee and Roxxie Rosen
- Video Installations
- Remembering Our Dead Memorial Room - Gwen Smith
- Harem Chill Room by Andrea Burnett, Heron Doe and Barb Cavoto
Roof Deck Party
- Drag Flag Patio Party with Vinsantos, Heklina, Jeff Valentine and Chuck the Juggler. Decor by Scott Martin and Phatima
About “Some Kind of Queer”
The name of this party comes from a reclaimed childhood slur. As the androgynous bohemian new kid in a cliquey Middle School, Jordy Jones was ‘infectious.’ Boys who befriended him were in danger of being called ‘faggot’ and girls who did so were dubbed ‘lezzies.’ Jordy’s classmates couldn’t figure him out at all and used to ask “What are you? Some Kind of Queer?” A few years later, Jordy was sent to Arizona to go to High School and heard the question again from a cousin who wondered why he listened to David Bowie instead of Led Zeppelin. Many years later, Jordy wrote a very short story about it. To read it and learn more about the party and it’s performers, visit http://transbay.org/skoq.
NOTE TO EDITORS AND PRODUCERS: Jordy Jones is currently available to be interviewed about the “Some Kind of Queer” party. To set up an interview or reserve press passes to this event, please email jordy_jones@yahoo.com.
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