Justin Bond: 'I think everybody's trans'

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Justin Bond: 'I think everybody's trans'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2011/jun/28/justin-bond
6/28/11
By Hermione Hoby

It's the hottest day of the year, but up in Justin Vivian Bond's dim, artfully cluttered New York loft, the cabaret singer is elegantly dressed from head to toe in black and smiling serenely. This is disarming – not least because such tranquillity is at odds with Bond's most famous creation. From 1990, Bond performed as Kiki DuRane, a raging old lounge singer, pendulous of bosom, big of hair and perennially wasted. Kiki sang and ranted, accompanied by her gay pianist Herb (AKA Kenny Mellman). Kiki and Herb became a cabaret phenomenon, touring worldwide.