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Performance artist Taylor Mac s annual holiday show is virtual this year and features a queer elder from Miami.
The Miami Dade College foundation is trying to raise $25,000 to establish the endowed scholarship for LGBTQ students.
An annual holiday show from renowned performance artist Taylor Mac is raising funds to establish a new scholarship at Miami Dade College for LGBTQ students.
The show, which is virtual this year, is streaming online for a minimum donation of $10, with most of the proceeds going toward the “pride” scholarship. The college’s foundation seeks to raise at least $25,000 in order to create an endowment, which would allow the scholarship to continue for years to come.
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A clinician points to the negative result of an HIV test during a demonstration at a Miami high school in 2015.
Free at-home testing is available for people who are afraid to seek care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Testing for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections has plummeted in Florida during the coronavirus pandemic, but many more people are taking advantage of at-home testing than before.
“We have increased by 200 or 300% the number of home test kits that we are sending out and that we have made available to the general public,” said Luigi Ferrer, who specializes in the sexual health of LGBTQ people at the Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade County.
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Although it’s holiday-themed, the show is actually a homage to Mac’s late drag mother, Mother Flawless Sabrina, who inspired the annual show all those years ago. Mac admits judy was never a fan of the holidays, primarily because it’s a moment where many people find themselves concealing parts of their true identities to fit molds for other people.
The show, which features live performances, music, and, of course, fabulous drag performers, is not only a celebration of Mother Flawless but of all the mothers and elders out there, Mac explains.
“My drag mother, Mother Flawless Sabrina, would always say, ‘You’re the boss, applesauce,’ meaning that you’re in charge of your own life,” judy says. “I had always kind of despised the holiday season, but one year I decided that instead of dreading December every year, I’d do something that will make it fun for me.”