Macho Macho Men
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- June
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What’s all the fuss about three Westchester County legislators performing in drag? I don’t get it.
I don’t understand why members of the burgeoning transgendered community were offended when the three Democratic caballeros—Ken Jenkins, Vito Pinto and Jose Alvarado—performed a skit in drag at a senior citizens event held last weekend at the Polish Community Center. They were accused of mocking a minority.
But I think the ire is misplaced. Maybe these guys like to wear dresses. Did that occur to anybody…hmm? Rudy Giuliani liked to dress up in women’s clothing, didn’t he? If anything, he was offensive mainly to women because he was so ugly and talked in a campy falsetto. Plus, in one of his cross-dressing episodes, he actually kissed Donald Trump, who is offensive to almost everybody and for a whole lot of reasons.
The Board of Legislators has been taking a significant amount of crap lately, but this is just wrong. We need to be more understanding, especially at time when the DVD box set of Carmen Miranda movies has just been released in stores.
The legislators should run out and get it for some costume ideas. Platform heels and fruit basket hats should look good on them.
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on Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 at 5:49 pm by Phil Reisman.
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Phil Reisman is a veteran journalist and native of Westchester County. He began his career in 1977 as the head copy boy of a startup New York City newspaper that quickly went belly up. Reisman was not to blame for the newspaper's failure, or so he claims.
