Vaginal Davis

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Mas Better Party

Vaginal Davis
Photo by Elon Schoenholz Being the old-school raccoon-eye-makeup-wearing chola that I am, I can’t help but get off on Slowrider, whose good-time party music is an eclectic mix of cumbia, salsa, hip-hop, funk and what the band mischievously calls space-rock. Their EP, Mas Alla on ¡de volada! Records, was produced......
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On the Feminization of Menswear

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I remember when my friend the designer (now photographer-filmmaker) Rick Castro designed the menswear line for Michele Lamy back in the ‘80s. His reps down at the CaliforniaMart were embarrassed by his collection, and so was his publicist. They said his line was too gay and that real men would......
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Far From the Madding Boy George O'Dowd

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I KNOW 1999 ISN'T OVER YET, BUT SOUNDS FROM THE Gulf Stream by England's Marine Research is the album of the year -- so far. Amelia Fletcher (melodica, vocals), Cathy Rogers (keyboards, vocals), Rob Pursey (bass), Peter Momtchiloff (guitar) and the beautiful DJ Downfall on drums formed in early 1998......
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Blows Against the Empire

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I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT I WAS GETTING MYSELF INTO when I agreed to interview the 400 Blows in my studio for our interview. Plain old-fashioned logic should have warned me that I couldn't get the better of three young bucks toting a case of brewski and half-empty bottles of Early......
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Too Beautiful

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Photo by Ed Illades Ten years ago, when San Francisco’s Pansy Division sent a demo tape to gay-owned, L.A.-based Amoeba Records & Filmworks, its hillbillygoat-gruff owner, Gomorrah Wednesday, huffed that their music was the worst noise he had ever encountered. I remember hearing that early tape and not being too......
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The Inner Mounting Flame

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Photo by Katja PerreyI'm in bed with my shriveled-up 3-inch hormone erection, trying to interview L.A.'s best-kept secret, the sexy 6-foot-8 guitar legend Glen Meadmore. (I must be desperate, to have a crush on a sister tranny.) Glen is originally from Winnipeg, Canada. She is the spawn of a macho,......
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Calvin Kleinicus

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Reading, in the introduction to 1000 Dessous: A History of Lingerie, Michel Eyquem Montaigne’s quote "There are things best displayed by concealment" reminded me of my favorite "lingerie" story: Whenever Hard Copy profiles the modeling world, its 5,000-year-old spokesperson Nina Blanchard is released from her tomb for a statement. My......