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This is My Son, Should I Be Worried??

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I really hope Gordon Brown doesnt try this

Photos of East Cleveland Mayor Eric Brewer dressed in drag and posing in sexy... more

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United Kingdom Talk Video Tuesday 21st July 2009

Tuesday's edition of my three times a week talk show.Watch or listen to the show on... more

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Tonight, Matthew, Mariah will be...EMINEM!

In response to some unflattering comments made by Eminem on one of his new tracks,... more

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Artist Arrested for Pretty Putin-in-Drag Painting?

A Russian artist was arrested by the secret service after depicting prime minister... more

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'Dragnut' Thomas Prusik-Parkin indicted after allegedly dressing up like dead mom to collect checks

A Brooklyn man who police said dressed in drag to impersonate him mom and collect... more

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United Kingdom Talk Saturday 30th May 2009

Saturday's edition of my three times a week talk show.Watch the show here on CURRENT... more

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Mother's Day for a Long-Islander in Drag

"Which way's Macy's?"

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Armed robbers in drag pull off heist in Paris

Armed robbers - some dressed as women - escaped with more than £70million worth of... more

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Cross-Dressing Jewel Heist A Success!

Armed robbers -- two dressed as women -- have stolen an estimated €80 million... more

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United Kingdom Talk Video Saturday 1st November 2008

Saturday's edition of my three times a week talk show. Watch the the show here on... more

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United Kingdom Talk Video Thursday 30th Ocober 2008

Thursday's edition of my three times a week talk show.Watch the show here on CURRENT... more

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Don Baird Remembers Steve Lady

I knew of The Steve Lady years before he became known as The Steve Lady, if you call cowering with wide eyes and curiosity as he elegantly sauntered past you with a pair of his closest friends at the End-up to their familiar spot at the bar like they had just burst out of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. No, I wouldn’t say I really knew him as much as I was intrigued and intimidated by this aura of glamour he and his friends exuded when they walked in a room. I assumed all sorts of things about the trio, like they were descendents of some old world aristocracy, blue bloods educated in European boarding schools who had parents like Dianne Von Furstenberg or Aristotle Onassis and visited the French Riviera annually. They seemed to be the type who had definitely flown on the Concorde many times, so high, so fast, so first class. Steven was quite tall, and the slender lines of his physique just screamed for high couture to be draped upon him: broad shoulders, small waist, those super-model hips jutting forward from his body, sharp enough to cut, and his chin and cheekbones and the intensity of his large eyes, burning like lasers with a hundred yard stare, and that subtle sneer, somewhere between a smile and disdain. He didn’t just walk into a room so much as slice his way through. He frightened me so I never really met or spoke to him for years. One Halloween he dressed up as Cruella Deville from 101 Dalmatians and that was the first foreshadow of the magic yet to come. He was shockingly complete—a dead on likeness of the animated uber villain.

Over the years of consistent nightclubbing through the eighties and early nineties when everyone knew without a doubt where they would be spending their Saturdays and Sunday nights out (Product and Uranus and Klubstitute and Dragstrip to name a few), every time I saw The Steve Lady he looked devastating. His sense of style never adhered to anything over-wrought or campy or from the drag bins. He recognized the power of simplicity and would always choose a look that landed well off the beaten path of drag kitsch and more from the pages of Vogue magazine, fashion period history, specific works by celebrated photographers like Helmut Newton, or imagery from film makers like David Lynch or even Abstract Expressionist German theater and modern Performance Artists. His looks were always high concept, using his vast knowledge of art and enduring images of beauty like a palette of paints to create his unique and elegant forays. He appeared as a force of visual perfection that would humble great beauties throughout history and take your breath away time and time again. He had vision and plans unyielding to any limitations or doubts until as always perfection prevailed.

CONT'DI knew of The Steve Lady years before he became known as The Steve Lady, if you call... more