Humpday News Roundup: Good Risks, Airports & Three Parents
March 10, 2021
Benton County in High Risk
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Finally! Benton County has moved down from Extreme to High Risk on the Governor’s scale. This means more things will be opened, and it allows for some indoor dining. Of course, the counties around Benton are moving to Moderate Risk – as is Multnomah County which is a head scratcher – but let’s be glass-half-full folks and keep toeing the line toward the end goal of everyone being well.
FEMA Coming Through
Benton County will use a $3.1 million loan from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to support mass vaccination clinics. Benton has one of the highest vaccination rates per capita, and these funds will keep that moving forward in spite of the fact that the county will not be getting more vaccines than usual. Benton County will be partnering with Linn and Lincoln counties to operate the clinics
Streaming Options
She lost two lip-syncs, endowed a CGI tree with perky breasts, stomped the main stage in vintage Bob Mackie, and caused a Gay Panic™ for her tardiness to the runway all across the four-episode run-up to becoming the first eliminated queen of
RuPaul s Drag Race season 13. It s a track record rarely achieved by the franchise s first-out queens, but one worthy of Kahmora Hall s beauty nonetheless, with the fanfare and spectacle of it all serving as a fitting opening act for the Chicago legend s permanent sashay into the Pork Chop Loading Dock. Even though I m the first eliminated, it doesn t really feel like that. I ve had the opportunity to be on multiple episodes and share my story and some of my looks, so it s not like I went 40 minutes and out! Hall drag sister to season 12 winner Jaida Essence Hall tells EW of her time on the show, which came to an unfortunate (yet entertaining) end Friday night, after her wooden acting challe
Madre Goose has ‘punk songs, psychedelic backgrounds and embraces inclusivity’
“Kids love a mosh pit! They love a headbang,” says Tali Clarke, the writer and director of a queer punk pantomime, Madre Goose, which is streamed this month.
Madre Goose tells the story of an LGBTQ+ community of activists rallying against gentrification and materialism. All the wacky costumes, silly characters and daft jokes are as you’d expect from panto, but it has punk songs, psychedelic green-screen backgrounds and embraces inclusivity.
“The problem with a lot of pantos, when you start to look, is they’re often quite racist, they stick to traditions that are completely outdated,” Clarke tells me. “They can be quite homophobic and transphobic and they have really binary roles. Often the lead boy is played by a woman but all the narratives are the same when it comes to man, woman, beauty … A lot of individuals feel quite alienated by that, and families feel