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Title: Wham, bam, thank you glam
Post by: Shana A on March 02, 2011, 09:10:11 AM
Wham, bam, thank you glam
Steve Dow
March 2, 2011 - 5:28PM

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/stage/wham-bam-thank-you-glam-20110302-1befj.html (http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/stage/wham-bam-thank-you-glam-20110302-1befj.html)

Drag performer Taylor Mac's "very religious" mother, who raised him and his sister in California, now loves his work. But for a good decade, she didn't understand her son's pastiche and parody: she was "really scared", says the 37-year-old singer, playwright and performance artist, "that I was going down a horrible path".

Mac, long based in New York, will never know what his father, a "macho-soldier guy", would have thought about having a drag queen for a son. Second Lieutenant Robert Mac Bowyer died in a drunken motorcycle accident before Taylor turned four.