“There are not a lot of trans women my age,” says the singer, for whom aging glamorously is itself a form of activism.
, who lives upstairs. Bond is a legend on the downtown performance scene and has been ever since they moved from San Francisco. Bond spent roughly two decades in elegant drag as Kiki DuRane, a failed, alcoholic nonagenarian lounge singer spouting searingly funny, politically incorrect truths and doing cabaret versions of punk songs alongside her long-suffering piano player, Herb .
Internationally renowned cabaret performer Justin Vivian Bond takes the stage at Joe's Pub in New York City. The singer found the sweet historical gem near Hudson six years ago. Bond thought they couldn’t afford it, and “that made me sad,” Bond says, but their therapist and Rufus Wainwright, a good friend, told them to go for it. And Bond’s been splitting their time between upstate and the city ever since.
calls himself “a queer trans kitchen sink kind of person,” says that seeing his buddies from Kiki and Herb perform at Carnegie Hall in 2004 “felt like a religious experience,” and that it inspired him to keep going in showbiz.
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