Taylor Mac takes on David Bowie and Tiny Tim

[Shana A]

Taylor Mac takes on David Bowie and Tiny Tim
Dare to Compare
by Chris Haire

http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/taylor-mac-takes-on-david-bowie-and-tiny-tim/Content?oid=3387317

Of course, all of that is really nonsense. But, imagine if you will, that genders can in fact be subscribed to instruments, then exactly what would the ukulele be? Could it be that it falls somewhere between the two sexes? Could it be that the uke is androgynous?

Drag singer-storyteller Taylor Mac thinks that is certainly a possibility. "The uke is full-on trannie," he says. "The uke is the best instrument because it is so dorky and it's so unpretentious and it can't deny it is and it wouldn't even try."

[Joelene9]

  I remember Tiny Tim on Laugh-In.  I may still have one of his albums on cassette.  I remembered we all watched him get married to Miss Vickie on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.  That marriage lasted as long as those other Hollywood ones with Miss Vickie complaining that she wanted children and Tiny wasn't 'performing' and Tiny Tim saying: "Well, that's her problem"!   He was an odd lot to say the least!
  Joelene