After reading interviews and watching clips of Taylor Mac, I fell in love with Mac. (Mac uses the pronoun judy, as in Garland.) The evening I saw defunkt's production of judy's play Hir, judy was performing A 24-Decade History of Popular Music. Judy devotes one hour to each decade of popular American music beginning in 1776. The $400 ticket price got you a live band, dinner, lounging accommodations, gorgeous inventive costume changes, Taylor Mac all out for 24 hours with judy's critical, but fun look into ourselves. NY Times critic Wesley Morris described it as one of the greatest experiences of his life. I wish I was there to witness Mac's radical faerie realness ritual, as much as I regret not seeing Sinatra or James Brown in concert. An audience member at defunkt was blown away that the play made reference to the radical faeries and Wolf Creek. He was confiding in me, leaning on my shoulder with a look of "someone speaks my language?" I felt the same way about defunkt's Hir and my introduction to Taylor Mac. I need to develop my own radical faerie realness rituals. You can read my review hir.
My favorite image of Taylor Mac. Photo: Ian Douglas/2015