"The Donald and Larry King Don't Find Me Sexually Attractive"
Lions and Tigers and Bears 
and Dykes and Trannies and Rosie O'Donnell . . . OH MY!
Husbear and I made our way to Berkeley for Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors Tour. This is a big deal because we rarely cross the bridge. Woo Hoo - road trip. OK, it was more 30 minutes in traffic.
Cyndi Lauper, Erasure, Deborah Harry, Dresden Dolls, Margaret Cho and our favorite bear of all time – Rosie O’Donnell! The crowd was great – young, old, gay, lesbian, trans, queer, bears, dykes, butch, fem – very cool. We ran into a couple of friends, but we rarely get to spend a night out together with our busy life, so we ventured off by ourselves. There was eye candy and fashion victims for days.
As we made our way inside, the Dresden Dolls were already playing and we caught the last 3 numbers. Husbear liked them, and they sort of reminded me of an edgy Tori Amos.
Margret Cho filled in between acts as MC. “Oh My God, she is so thin . . .” I thought I had a lot of clothes - you know the remember when jeans (that I keep dreaming I’ll get back into), my current size, and the winter hibernation wear (you know the slightly bigger sizes you’d rather not admit to), but Margeret’s closet must have the entire collection from the Kate and Ashley Anorexic Line to Rosie’s Big Girl WalMart Line.
Speaking of Rho, she was great. She proudly proclaimed “Real women weigh over 200 pounds!” The crowd ate it up (pun intended!). On a recent Larry King Show, she noted the Trump and King discussed how they didn’t find her sexually attractive – “Imagine my disappointment . . .” She also expounded on the joys of stretch pants.
Deborah Harry was pushing a new album and only did new songs. WTF? If you haven’t had a hit in over 20 years, you can pretty much guess we are not here to hear the “new stuff.”
But Erasure and Lauper knew the rules and there were plenty of trips back to the 80’s. Andy Bell couldn’t have been gayer. Honestly, the man is way gay - he danced, he skipped, he pirouetted - throw in a laser light show and you are definitely over the rainbow.
Cyndi Lauper topped off the evening. “How Ya Doin’?” She talked about Rho (they’re buddies apparently) she played guitar (who knew?) and she pretty much covered the “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” album (Note to Deborah Harry – this what you do, you play songs we can sing along to, it makes us happy). And Cyndi reminded us this was a HRC sponsored event – had we somehow not noticed the giant HRC banners. She also acknowledged PFLAG, The Matthew Shepard Foundation and made a plea for us to write our legislators about The Matthew Shepard Act which includes LGBT protections in pending legislation on Hate Crimes. Music and a social conscieousness - it was a gay event!
The finale was all the acts coming together to sing True Colors.
We had a gay ole time.