mattachine

The gang is back together at Julius' Bar on Thursday, April 23rd, 2026, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Mattachine Society's legendary Sip-in at Julius' in 1966.

Always happy to return to The AllWays Lounge & Cabaret, our New Orleans home, especially this week during the build-up to Mardi Gras and alongside my longtime dance party co-ho, the incredible Amber Martin. Advance tix here

Those were the days: In 1975, Norman Lear created the character of Beverly LaSalle (played by San Francisco performer Lori Shannon, née Don Seymour McLean). Appearing in a trilogy of "All In The Family" episodes, Beverly proved to be a formidable foil to lovable bigot Archie Bunker (Carroll O'Connor) and a dear friend to his just-plain-lovable wife Edith (Jean Stapleton). In her final appearance in 1977, Beverly's senseless murder inspires a crisis of faith in Edith.

Sunday afternoon, Nov. 5th. Ticket info here.

Stoking ignorance and bigotry in the name of Christian morality and protecting children--for the sake of bald-faced personal greed and power: this Halloween, corrupt governor Ron Desantis wears the (banana cream) pie of history on his face, continuing Florida’s legacy of anti-gay rhetoric and legislation. Just like the disgraced beauty queen, Desantis has inadvertently spurred an LGBT+ mobilization and movement, firmly cementing his own place alongside Bryant: in history.

Promoting bigotry in the name of Christian morality and protecting children:  orange juice spokesperson, former beauty queen and washed-up singer turned anti-gay crusader Anita Bryant is pie’d at a live-televised news conference 46 years ago on October 14th, 1977 by a gay-rights activist, pushing her into a precipitous fall from glory. I designed this poster for our third Mattachine at Julius’ party on April 3rd, 2008, naïvely imagining that such buffoonish ignorance and blatant bigotry was merely part of our history.

Delicious live footage of Bryant pie-ing incident on October 14, 1977 (46 years ago)

Yummy Carol Burnett Show skit parodying Bryant, 1977