Mayor of Gaytown

Today's gay for the day is the tiny, tattooed, Macauley. When I first met her she made pornographic cakes for Masturbakers and was on the cover of Best Lesbian Erotica. Since then, she's cleaned up her act somewhat, but even Texas hasn't been able to slow down her indomitable kinetic energy.

1. how do you know the weasel?

from nyc. we were introduced to each other by tucker, however, we had been in the same circles and would have eventually talked, or more like I would of talked. xo

2. where do you live and why?

I moved from brooklyn to college station texas, then houston and i'm about to move to austin tx. I partly moved to be with my partner and also I wanted to start a business. NY is really expensive and I don't like the way the city is being promoted by mayor bloomberg as a luxury product. The city has greatly changed in the last 10 years and I didn't really like the people that we being drawn to the city. So we left.

3. what was it like going from nyc to texas?

It was hard. But I think moving is always hard. I will say that I realized fun is something one creates and that you can do that anywhere. I believe before leaving NYC I was a new yorkchovinist and that got kicked out of me by realizing that lots of places are cool and that interesting queers are scatterd all over the country in some of the most unlikely places. I had a really hard time when I moved from Chicago to NYC as well so I think that's just part of the deal.

4. what do you do and why?

I'm a pastry chef and cake designer. I have done pretty much every kind of crazy job and now work for myself. I do it because I like it. I also like being my own boss.

5. if you could have any job, what would it be?

I can't answer this question because there is nothing that I would ever want to do forever and I like the idea of reinvention and allowing oneself to change and be or do something different. I just don't believe one can ever be happy doing only one type of job.

6. what kind of queer art/performance projects have you been involved with over the years?
I was a member of the Backdoor Boys and I was in a performance art group called The Andy and Elroi Show and we did really bizarr performance art numbers. I have been in a lot of art projects and national as well international magazines.

7. is it true you were in ck commercials promoting pedophilia and drug abuse?

No this is not true and where did you get this idea? I was in a levi's commercial that never aired. I have a dear friend that was in the original ck commercial that caused a big fuss, in the early 90s commercial with the young boy in underwear with wood paneling in the background, he was also in one with Kate Moss. But that wasn't me. I have been in a photogragh for a magazine mimicking that ck ad. But it wasn't an ad for anything of that scale. Was the ad promoting pedophilia and drug abuse? Or was it just a more honest representation of the modeling industry as a whole? At least he was of age, the models now are 13. I'd say that those aspects have gotten worse but that ck ad was just straight up.

8. is it important for queer people to be represented in mass media?

Yes. I think it's incredibly important, with this said I also think that it'd be nice if the people being photographed for things had more control over their representation. I was in alot of magazines and didn't have any control over my representation and also never got paid because "it's representation for the community". Queers get taken advantage of by not getting paid for these shoots and then will be misrepresented on top of all that. I think as queer individuals one should also look out for their own interests as well as doing "community service". When I was growing up there weren't any queers on tv or in mags. So the growth of queer stardom I think is great for the masses.

9. why is radical community important to you?

It just is. It's good for me. I get to heal there and feel free to be myself. Having that available to me is a salve for the wounds of the world.

10. who do you think you'd be if you weren't the self appointed mayor of gay town (like if you were straight)?

I didn't just appoint myself. I look as gay as a gaylord and many have agreed I'd be a great mayor. Better than bloomberg or guliani. I have never even thought of being straight. But if I were straight and had the same personality, assuming I'd be male, I'd be such an asshole. I don't know what I'd be like as a hetersexual, maybe I'd be less tormented and thus more boring? I just don't know.