Body Blows
Six Performances
Contents
Foreword...............................ix
Acknowledgments........................xiii
Introduction...........................xv
Some Golden States.....................3
Stretch Marks..........................35
My Queer Body..........................79
Naked Breath...........................123
Fruit Cocktail.........................169
Glory Box..............................203
Chapter One
Some Golden States
Where do I begin?
Las Vegas lounge singers and performance artists always ask
ourselves this question when we decide how to get started-whether
it's crooning at the piano for the late set in the Rainbow
Room or choosing what the new performance art piece will
explore. I hope when I look that query in the eye I have consistently
dared to face what is most urgent in my life.
I created Some Golden States in 1987. I was twenty-eight, and
my world was in complete chaos. That year AIDS began to take
its toll on my closest p ... read full excerpt from Body Blows: Six Performances ebook
