My Life, a Four Letter Word: Confessions of a Counter Culture Diva (How to's from the Counter Culture Diva)
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (784 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0615826261 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 294 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Her new family includes Divine, assorted bad boys on Venice Beach, and her loving gay “husbands.” Along the way she meets John Waters, Edie Massey, Rip Taylor and Joan Rivers, is crowned “Miss Alternative L.A.” and wins The $1.98 Beauty Show. TUNE—in---TURN-- on—DROP-- in to a-- FOOT—LOSE--FREE—FALL—LOVE—FEST--for DRUG & FAME HOES--DRAG--FAGS—HAGS—& MORE. Through tears and glitter, Dolores survives her bitter family estrangements only to face the pain of the AIDS crisis first-hand. Dolores DeLuce, a five-foot Diva in six-inch heels, takes us on a bumpy ride from her gray days in New Jersey through her escape to the tumultuous post-Stonewall days of ‘70’s Los Angeles and gay San Francisco. When her Italian American family rejects her after the birth of her mixed-race daughter, she creates a new family with the most unlikely people under the most unusual circumstances
Divine's Daughter Don't Fall Far From the Tree! SO much to say about "My Life: A Four-Letter Word" - I'll try my best to keep the hyperbole chained up:I have not spent a day in bed reading in - literally - decades, until "My Life" attached itself to my brain stem and wouldn't let go.De Luce - not the De Luxe character I'd had the pleasure of seeing on stage back in 'the day' and known peripherally - is, I'm happy to realize after reading her book, a gem of a woman and a thoughtful and entertaining writer.A real-life Italian Tootsie Pop that, once y. C. M. Truxler said My Life, A Four Letter Word by Dolores De Luce. My Life, A Four Letter Word by Dolores De Luce is a gritty no-holds-barred view of one individual’s life. Some will take this work for a truthful, albeit blunt, memoire. Others will say it is an exercise in boisterous immodesty that leans toward boasting. Yet, other individuals will see the somewhat distressing existence of a person, who knowing she was creating her own demise, made the best out of life, as she knew it. So, the question is which is the correct answer… After reading this m. My Life, A Four Letter Word Refreshingly fun meme on what it was to be truly Gay in a Free Society before politics & AIDs ,is a must read! Joyful yet seriously revealing a time when everyone was Gay, artists occupied The Castro & naughty was nice! Plus Divine was Dolores' live-in mother!
She was mentored by the legendary Divine and the infamous genderbending Cockettes. She can be seen about town reading her stories with Queer Wise, an LGBTI senior writer’s collective, and story-telling at The Moth, Tasty Words, Everybody Loves a Good Story, and other spoken word venues around Los Angeles. Dolores’ autobiographical screenplay, Grace Happens, based on this memoir was semi finalist at the Austin Screenwriting Competition. About the Author Dolores De Luce had been a performer since 1970. . The Shirt, a story from Gay Widow, a collection of AIDS survivor stories was published in Witness, an A.P.L.A. She has performed and written for many musical comedies and was nominated for ‘Best Performer’ by Bay Area Credits Association for Brok
She can be seen about town reading her stories with Queer Wise, an LGBTI senior writer’s collective, and story-telling at The Moth, Tasty Words, Everybody Loves a Good Story, and other spoken word venues around Los Angeles. The Shirt, a story from Gay Widow, a collection of AIDS survivor stories was pub