Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show
Episodes
Drag Race's Ginger Minj Serves up Some Sweet T
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One of the things we adore about RuPaul’s Drag Race is how the show turns a group of drag queens fighting for the crown into an epic battle royale. ...
The Secret Gay Lives of the U.S. Presidents
05 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From Washington to Obama, there’s always been some speculation about the love lives our nation’s leaders but what about affairs of the same sex ki...
FOF #2967 - The Legendary Adventures of Kelly Lauren
04 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The term legend gets tossed around a lot in reference to drag entertainers, but it certainly fits the bill for the legendary Kelly Lauren. For over fo...
The Rise of the Modern Drag Queen
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Even though folks have been crossdressing for entertainment since the dawn of time, the rise of the modern drag queen can be traced back to a some rel...
The Secret Gay Lives of The Beatles, David Bowie and Freddie Mercury
26 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After a lifetime of denying rumors of same sex affection in the Beatles, Paul McCartney recently landed a bombshell stating that he and John Lennon di...
The Rainbow Flag's New Design
24 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Gilbert Baker considered the flag an unfinished work of political art and encouraged others to design their own versions, like the Leather or Trans Pr...
FOF #2967 - Matt Brown Returns to Give You Gay Pride
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As America starts to nervously open up and hopefully overcome the Covid pandemic, it’s good to know that some things never change: Feast of Fun is s...
FOF #2966 - Happy Daddy’s Day Bill Cruz
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Daddy’s Day! We’re all father figures to somebody! For comedian Bill Cruz, who was one of the first openly Latinx gay comedians on the comed...
FOF #2965 - The TV Variety Shows that Inspired Sherry Vine
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One of our favorite things that pulled us through the last year was Sherry Vine and Jackie Beat’s parodies of sitcoms as if they had taken place dur...
FOF #2964 - Gay Man Thriving: How We Sabotage Our Own Happiness
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Even before the Covid pandemic hit there was a loneliness epidemic among LGBTQ+ folks. After many of us spent a year alone and now that restrictions s...
FOF #2963 - Stewart Pearce: The Man Who Taught Lady Diana to Speak
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Princess Diana made international headlines in 1987 at the opening of the UK’s first HIV/AIDS unit at Middlesex Hospital when she shook hands with a...
FOF #2962 - Hattie the Silver Sex Cougar Survives Covid
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most inspiring people we chatted with during the COVID pandemic is Hattie Retroage, the supermodel grandma. Hattie became a sensation after...
FOF #2961 - Karen Lewis’ Big Mouth is Big Trouble
25 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Karen Lewis’ big mouth is getting her into big trouble. Designed like a giant mouth with fangs for the Burning Man festival in 2005, Karen’s giant...
FOF #2960 - Henry Cavil and the Curse of Superman
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a curse? Doing something great often comes with a heavy burden, because when you’re seen as divine, people exp...
FOF #2959 - I’m 50 and I Like to Kick!
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to aging, nothing makes us laugh like Molly Shannon’s endearing Sally O’Malley character from SNL triumphantly stating “I’m prou...
Ménage à What? Tristan Taormino on the Myth of Equality in Relationships
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How many are in your party? For some people monogamy is just right, but for a growing number of people, open relationships is where they find true hap...
FOF #2958 - Eartha Kitt and The Divas Who Raised Us
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A mother is anyone who channels feminine energy to nurture people and love them unconditionally. For many LGBTQ+ folks, we’ve had to seek out that e...
Lady Vera Parker aka Thomas John as a Scam Psychic
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One of the more outrageous moments on Feast of Fun was back in 2009 when our friend Teri Yaki told us the tale of Lady Vera Parker, a drag queen who g...
Lady Vera Parker Scamvestite
13 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most talked about episodes of our podcasts was this outrageous moment where Chicago drag queen Teri Yaki talked about the scandalous life o...
FOF #2957 – James Fritz Takes on Cryptocurrency and Safe Spaces
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cryptocurrency: anything can be used as cash if you get creative enough. Cigarettes in prison, jugs of Tide detergent to pay your dealer, your body an...
Chris Crocker on How Leave Britney Alone Happened
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Crocker turned to the internet to escape the torment of being chased by gangs of boys at the mall.The internet helped him connect with the great...
FOF #2956 - Translocas: Puerto Rican Art Gender Warriors
04 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With the high visibility of drag queens on TV and social media and (even this podcast) there’s an idea that drag is just another form of show busine...
FOF #2955 - Kate Willett: Dirtbag Anthropologist
29 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With all the challenges we’ve faced in recent years it feels like we’ve all grown closer together yet sometimes it also feels like we’re a milli...
FOF #2954 - Zac Efron’s Face Shocker
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What’s going on with Zac Efron’s face? In a video promoting Bill Nye’s new environmental awareness project “Earth Day the Musical” fans were...
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sesame Street is one of the most influential television programs of all time. Premiering in 1969, its profound legacy impacted generations. Millions o...
FOF#2953 - Hedwig Queen Becomes the Tiger King
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tiger King- the true crime story reigned supreme as the 2020 pandemic documentary series on Netflix. The tale about an eccentric group of private zoo ...
FOF #2952 – HRH Princess Diandra Reads Diana Ross to Filth
20 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
HRH Princess Diandra has an amazing drag career impersonating her first love Diana Ross. But she also relishes channelling the other two great enterta...
FOF #2951 - The Bachelor Colton Underwood Comes Out as Gay
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Bachelor reality TV franchise is a top show with American conservatives because it reinforces antiquated ideas of love where 12 people go at each ...
FOF #2950 - Alexandra Gray on Sister Act and Black Divas
13 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sister Act, the 1992 musical comedy starring Whoopi Goldberg, is a favorite classic for many LGBTQ+ folks, afterall, who can't relate to a larger than...
Drag Queen Peaches Christ on Wild Women in Film
12 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A lot of us who love drag, love it because because it channels the spirit of those wild, outrageous women who embrace their rebellious side and point ...
FOF #2949 - Making Out with Strangers
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
While there are a lot of similarities between the AIDS crisis of the late 80s and today’s Covid pandemic, one thing that’s been hard for a lot of ...
FOF #2948 - Loving: A Collection of Photos of Men in Love Transcends Time
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Love is love” became the rally cry of the modern LGBTQ+ movement, declaring that love is universal among all people. But in the past, the love th...
FOF #2947 - Lil Nas X Rides the Pole Down to Hell
06 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A great entertainer says what we’re all feeling, and since it’s been a hell of a year, Lil’ Nas X hung up his adorable pink cowboy hat and trade...
FOF #2946 - The Tea on Tina Turner
02 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone expected 1984 to be a strange dystopian future, but it turned out to be an amazing year for pop culture with Tina Turner reigning supreme as ...
Trans Bodybuilding Icon Janae Marie Kroc
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At one point in time bodybuilder Janae Marie Kroczaleski was known as the “world’s strongest man” for hitting the world record in powerlifting- ...
A Lesbian Nun’s Adventures on the Isle of Lesbos
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When people who didn’t go to Catholic school think of nuns they immediately think of the classic Sound of Music, the silly Flying Nun or movies like...
When Actors Kill
26 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to murder, entertainers are usually at the recieving end of the violence. But celebrities are just like us, and some of them have commit...
Silver Cougar on the Prowl
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Happiness in life comes from figuring out what you love to do and then making it your profession. Our friend 81 year old Hattie Retroage was born to b...
FOF #2945 - Gay Cruising at the World Trade Center
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The world has long been filled with secret hiding spots where what could not be expressed in public, could be enjoyed away from the prying eyes of oth...
FOF #2944 - Linda Simpson’s Drag Explosion
23 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the mid 80s, at the height of the AIDS crisis, New York City experienced a drag revolution. Cheap rent, fabulous clubs and a wide variety of people...
The Drag Queens of Too Wong Foo
22 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the 20 year anniversary of To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, the unusual film that came out on the heels of the very successful...
Eddie Campbell: My Worst Dates Ever
18 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve all been on horrible dates- hopeless purgatories where you wonder why you’re spending the evening with this person when you could be home or...
Debbie Reynolds on Carrie Fischer and Dating Gay Men in Hollywood
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 2009, we had the pleasure of interviewing Debbie Reynolds about her life in Hollywood, her one woman show and her deep bond with her daughter Carri...
FOF #2943 - Steven Thrasher: The Viral Underclass
16 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
During the early months of the Coronavirus Pandemic, folks were comparing it to the Spanish Flu of 1918, saying that at the end of the pandemic, it wo...
Barbara Walters and the Most Awkward Talk Show Moments in History
15 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bye bye Baba Wawa! Pioneering journalist, talk show host Barbara Walters put rumors to rest by announcing on her show The View that she’s planning t...
Methacular: A Musical About Meth Addiction
13 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Emmy Award winning TV series Breaking Bad did a wonderful job of taking us into the seedy underbelly of America’s dysfunctional relationship wit...
Auntie Mame in Real Life: The Fabulous Miss Lola Rose
11 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
t’s a lot of fun to hang out with a strong sassy woman who doesn’t take crap from any one. Sassy divas can make the best friends, but don’t alwa...
Hey Love Muffins, It's Love B Scott!
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Love B. Scott began their career on YouTube making video blogs where they greeted their fans with the now legendary catch phrase "Hey Love Muffins, it...
What Would Joan Crawford Say if She Were Alive Today?
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
No other Hollywood diva has captured the imagination of gay men quite like Joan Crawford.Most people credit Faye Dunaway’s melodramatic portrayal in...
FOF #2942 - Teen Mom, Wandavision, Coming 2 America & Other TV Goodies
08 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One thing that’s helping us during the covid pandemic is all the great streaming TV shows featuring queer and racial diversity like never before. An...
FOF #2941 - A Gay Marine’s Story of Surviving War, Cancer & Journalism
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At the young age of 17, James Curry hoped to escape a hostile home by enlisting in the Marines, and ended up right in the middle of the terrible War i...
FOF #2940 - Potato Head and the Toys That Made Us Fabulous
02 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In a move that undoubtedly made some folks’ heads explode like a potato in the microwave, Hasbro announced that the Potato Head toys are gender neut...
FOF #2939 - It’s A Sin: The Women Who Helped the World Survive the AIDS Crisis
01 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Television writer Russell T Davies, best known for his pioneering “Queer as Folk” and the “Dr. Who” reboot, says he’s seen just about every ...
How Nellie Oleson Survived Little House on the Prairie
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Alison Arngrim is loved and feared by people all over the world for playing Nellie Oleson on one the most popular TV shows of all time, Little House o...
Being Mr. Rogers’ Gay Black Neighbor
25 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One of the unexpected surprises from “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” the documentary film on Mr. Rogers, was just how fierce and unapologetically ga...
Sweet Tea - Gay Men in the South
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A lot has happened since author Dr. E Patrick Johhnson first came on the podcast a decade ago to talk about his groundbreaking book “Sweet Tea: Blac...
FOF #2938 - KC Ortiz, the Queen of Southern Luxury Rap
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Southern Hip Hop music is legendary for its drum machine beats, a thunderous bassline, and shouting vocals that bring you into the moment in all its g...
It's a Sin: the Wonder Women of the AIDS Crisis
22 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With the premiere of Russell T Davies’ new series “Its a Sin” about the the lives of a group of gay men and their friends who lived during the H...
FOF #2937 - Brittany Kay Taylor's Second Chance in Beauty and the Beast
17 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One of the great treasures (diamonds in the rough) on Disney’s streaming service is the reality TV show Encore, which reunites the cast members from...
FOF #2936 - Mystique Summers Keeps it Hot on a Chilly Mardi Gras
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Fat Tuesday! The streets of New Orleans are spookily empty as folks wisely stay home to help to bring an end to the Rona pandemic, but it doesn...
FOF #2935 - Unfolding the Gotmik T-Shirt Controversy
15 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For 13 seasons RuPaul’s Drag Race has been bringing underground artists into the mainstream, and sometimes the world is just not ready for the gag. ...
Ari Gold is Super Fabulous
15 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Farwell to queer musician Ari Gold, New York night life personality, star in Starbooty and child singer in the My Buddy doll commercial that later bec...
The Worst Dates From Hell
12 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Love is hell! Valentine’s Day is almost upon us and while we are happily in love- it wasn’t always the case. We had to go on some really bad dates...
Chris Crocker Wants You to Leave Britney Alone
11 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With Britney in the news again and the Netflix documentary "Framing Britney Spears" captivating audiences we thought we'd give an encore presentation...
FOF #2934 - Don’t Dream It, Be It
10 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A common criticism of self help gurus like Oprah Winfrey and The Secret’s Rhonda Byrne is that their advice typically not only overlooks systemic in...
Disco Didn't Die, It Just Evolved Into House Music
09 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the late 1970s radio stations were in revolt, declaring Disco music dead, culminating in the notorious Disco Demolition night at Comiskey Park, a p...
FOF #2933 - Feast of Fun Celebrates 16 Years of Podcast Mayhem and Magic
08 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the 16th anniversary of Feast of Fun- one of the first shows to kick off the podcast revolution.But honey, just because you’re revolting, doe...
The True Story of When Ms. Joan Jett Blakk Ran for President
08 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The early 90s was an exciting but difficult time to be a queer person in the United States. The AIDS crisis was still claiming so many lives and after...
FOF #2932 - Nicki J!zz is Jazz Hot Baby
05 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Some names are just begging to be adopted by drag queens, kings and other colorful shape shifters: Robin Banks, Poo Ping, Ima Hogg, Peter Gozinya or I...
FOF #2931 - George Washington Carver Loved to Talk to the Flowers
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What they didn’t tell us in grade school about George Washington Carver is that he came across as unapologetically queer-Carver spoke to the flowers...
The Horrific Origins of Valentine's Day
03 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For many folks Valentine’s Day is a special time to celebrate the ones they love, but the origins of this romantic holiday are anything but a box of...
FOF #2930 - The Unsinkable Harma Hartouni
02 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When life knocks you down, it’s hard to get back up, especially when you live in an oppressive place, your family rejects you for being gay and you’...
FOF #2929 - Valentine’s Day in the Age of PrEP and Covid
01 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With both Valentine’s Day and Groundhog Day, February has to be the sexiest month of the year, but also the most frustrating, after all, with the Co...
FOF #2928 - Rachel Hall Needs a Hug
27 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As the Covid pandemic enters its second year, we’re reminded about how vital our relationships with each other are and how much we miss human physic...
FOF #2927 - WTF Happened to Wonder Woman's WW84?
25 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Patti Jenkins’ highly anticipated sequel to Wonder Woman promised that WW84 would be a tribute to the campy 1970s TV series, but instead we got a mo...
FOF #2926 - A Chorus Line, the Music and the Mirror
24 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With so many talented people losing their jobs this past year, it’s hard not to think about the song “Music and the Mirror” from the musical “...
The Human Ken Doll: How to Marry a Millionaire
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
People usually think that folks who are obsessed with the income of the guys they date are tacky, dismissing them as gold-diggers.But one of the most ...
George Washington Carver and Other Legendary Queer Scientists
21 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Flower power! Although they never identified as gay or straight, pioneering scientists Alexander Von Humbolt and George Washington Carver both wrote a...
FOF #2925 - Pam Ann's Full Blown PAM-demic
20 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Comedian Pam Ann’s demented flight attendant persona harkens back to the groovy days of the airline industry when flight attendants wore sexy outfit...
FOF #2924 - Turning the Georgia Peach Blue
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It was the night the lights almost went out in Georgia, and the whole country for that matter, when on January 5, voters cast their ballots for who wo...
Bayard Rustin, the Gay Man Behind MLK Jr. & the 1963 March on Washington
18 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today we salute one of the leaders of the Civil Rights movement, a fabulous gay black man named Bayard Rustin- the chief organizer of the 1963 March o...
FOF #2923 - Fine Young Cannibals
18 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We were all hoping that 2021 wouldn’t be as terribly twisted as 2020, but in the first week of the new year we got rumors that Kanye West is dating ...
In Search of the Real Joan Crawford
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most outrageous movie characters of all time is Faye Dunaway’s portrayal of Joan Crawford in “Mommie Dearest,” a movie based on the b...
I Was Divine's Roommate
11 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Birthday to writer and performer Dolores Deluce, who used to live with Divine, the drag queen from John Water's films and performed often with t...
The First Glitter Day
09 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Glitter Day Everyone! Here's our annual tradition of posting the original podcast episode that started the new LGBTQ centric winter holiday. En...
FOF #2922 - Incredibly Strange Christmas Music 2020, Vol. 11 - Christmas Boogaloo
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
No holiday puts it all out there like Christmas! When people from all kinds of cultures and traditions come together, the food, music and celebrations...
FOF #2921 - 2020: the Year of Hell (And This Time We Mean It)
21 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The last podcast we made in 2019, titled “A Christmas Apocalypse,” looked back on the terrible things that happened in the past decade that we did...
How I Created "Saved by the Bell"
19 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Even though Saved by the Bell went off the air in 1993, it still has a firm grip on popular culture- the cast reunion of Zach and his high school frie...
FOF #2920 - Tis’ the Season to Be Vivacious
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Christmas has arrived! No winter snow, no covid pandemic, no gloom nor doom is going to hold back a fierce queen like Vivacious from snapping her fan ...
FOF #2919 - Peaches Christ's Very Own Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
2020 has been harder on working drag queens than Baby Jane Hudson was to her poor sister Blanche in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. If only we weren’...
Jingle Bells, Batman Smells
14 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jingle Bells Batman Smells Robin Laid an Egg. How much fun it is to deride your family’s Christmas carols?There’s something hilarious about turnin...
FOF #2918 - Ten Years of Glitter Day
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The second Saturday in January marks the 10 year anniversary of Glitter Day, the fun and fabulous holiday in celebration of all things magical and spa...
A Decade with Stephen Meritt and the Magnetic Fields
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
NOTE: This encore presentation of our episode of Feast of Fun is in honor of LD Beghtol, the singer-songwriter and Magnetic Fields Collaborator, he pa...
FOF #2917 - Alton DuLaney’s Great Gift Exchange
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This holiday season, one of YouTube’s most anticipated new shows is The Great Gift Exchange, a 12 part series aiming to inspire people on the art of...
FOF #2916 - A Very Lady Bunny Covid Christmas
07 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When winter’s chill sets upon us during the holiday season, it’s a perfect time for Lady Bunny to deliver a flaming hot roast, and this Christmas ...
FOF #2915 - Kristen Stewart’s Lesbian Christmas Miracle on Ice
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Billed as the first mainstream rom-com to feature LGBTQ characters front and center, Hulu’s holiday feature "Happiest Season," aims to reach a big a...
FOF #2914 - Sari, Not Sorry! Kamani Sutra, the South Indian Drag Queen
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Way before the British colonized India and brought with them homophobia, racism and transphobia, lots of Indian people practiced the art of the Kama S...
Silence Equals Death
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Silence still equals death. Gran Fury's iconic design from 80s is making a comeback, this time tackling gun violence.In the mid 80s, a broken healthca...
Unwrapping Pee Wee's Christmas Special
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One of our favorite oddball TV Christmas moments is Pee Wee’s Christmas Special, a star studded hour long event that aired in 1988 at the height of ...
FOF #2913 - St Sukie de la Croix’s Very British Fairy Tale
30 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Once upon a time there was a little fairy named Sukie who grew up in the town of Bath, in Great Britain. He saw his world change through the impact of...