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Title: All the Things He Is and Isn’t
Post by: Shana A on October 06, 2011, 08:42:09 AM
All the Things He Is and Isn't
Joey Arias: singer, comedian, performance artist, drag queen.
By DAVID COLMAN
Published: October 5, 2011

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/06/fashion/joey-arias-of-arias-with-a-twist.html?_r=1 (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/06/fashion/joey-arias-of-arias-with-a-twist.html?_r=1)

Joey Arias.

That is, you can't explain who he is until you have gotten past what. And that "what" is tough.

He's not really a performance artist; he's too much fun. He's not a drag queen, though the corsets and hairdos he's known for make Lady Gaga look like Greta Van Susteren.