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It’s the Starrbooty boys – reborn! I met up with Mike Ruiz, the director of Starrbooty, at the launch party for RuPaul’s Drag Race season 4 (Mike will also be appear in the first episode which premieres on Logo tonight) and the meeting with Mike seems to have instigated a full-on Starrbooty chain reaction! Tom Judson (a.k.a. the super sexy and super sweet former gay-porn-god, Gus Mattox, who played the part of “Max” in Starrbooty) will bring his popular cabaret act to NYC this week and will perform at The Metropolitan Room on February 1st. And on top of that, I’m scheduled to meet up with clubkid extraordinaire, Kayvon Zand (who played the part of a supermodel-terrorist in Starrbooty), and hang out with him this coming Thursday as he hosts a new party at XL in NYC! Hopefully some more fab photos will soon be added to my scrapbook. Starrbooty Boys Forever! (Top photo: Tom Judson via The Advocate. Below: Mike Ruiz, Kayvon Zand, Tom Judson, and Starrbooty with AGuyNamedWayne)

  


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There was a full-on gaggle of fierce folks who attended the Absolut Outrageous RuPaul’s Drag Race launch party at Patricia Field in Manhattan last night. The gorgeous new queens of season 4 were in attendance and worked the crowd to full effect. All the girls looked great (really) but I have to give special props to Willam Belli, Phi Phi O’Hara and Milan for bringing the sexy and to Sharon Needles for keeping it unique. Sahara Davenport and Manila Luzon were both bubbly and beautiful as well (with Sahara looking particularly on-point). Jon Mallow and John Polly from Logo’s Drag Ya Later were there and just as funny and sweet as they are on their show. Designers Patricia Field and Richie Rich seemed to be happily enjoying themselves. And I got a chance to chat with Mike Ruiz, who seems to keep getting better looking and, unlike me, is incapable of taking a bad picture. We got to reminisce about all the fun times we had working on Starrbooty. Mike said it was funny that so many people mention the movie to him and lately several have even been asking about a possible sequel – Don’t make me squeal! I say YES YES YES please! But, of course, the real star of the night was RuPaul. It really is amazing that when that man walks into a room everyone automatically starts smiling. Lord knows, you couldn’t wipe the grin off my face. A good time was had by all. (Photos by AGuyNamedWayne)