#billy beyond

Created by Michael Economy for the Pansy Beat book launch party at Printed Matter, NYC in the spring of 2018. The Pansy Beat book revisits the seminal queer zine Pansy Beat of 1989-90, reprinting the original issues alongside new essays, interviews and artwork from the artists featured in its pages. In the video, Pansy Beat’s debut 1989 cover boy, “Then”, makes a phone call to his present day self, “Now” (both portrayed in the video by Brooklyn drag king Maxxx Pleasure.) In colorful conversation reminiscent of late-80s informercials, Now and Then get reacquainted as they compare the challenges of their respective days. Then as Now, the two find more in common than not, despite advances in technology, ever-expanding ideas about gender and sexuality, and the unstoppable passage of time.

What a thrill to see Todd Oldham again and some of his designer treasures which will be on display at RISD for his upcoming retrospective  It was Beyond  !   I walked out on a cloud 

PHOTOS: The House of O – Monday Madness Supper Club & Next Weeks Line-up

  This party is unstoppable.   SO much fun was had last Monday, While we dined , Adam Joseph gave us a soulful serenade to swish down our sushi and sake,   We headed downstairs afterwards for a hilarious set by the legendary Flotilla Debarge, and with DJ Peter Pony Clement  and DJ William Francis’s disco-house set the party was bouncing. The rest is history.

 NEXT WEEK:  March 3rd 2014     Hosts…

rattle to the roll.......with Bobby and Billy...rock my soul ...