New York's a wild town. Sure, it gets much of its reputation from the hustle and bustle of international culture, fashion, art and everything in-between, but the true meat comes from its fierce, uninhibited inhabitants. Take, for example, downtown darling Ladyfag.

Since moving from Toronto, this woman has taken the nightlife scene by storm, commingling with the freshest - and most made-up - faces in town. Ladyfag lives her life as she sees fit - taking chances, pushing envelopes and making no apologies for her love of the glittering game:

Most of the things I do, my parents would not approve of, but if you ever go out in queer nightlife, you know what wild’s all about. It’s just being over the top. Just meet me at The Cock one time and you’ll see wild styles!

It's at The Cock - by way of a seder - that Queerty correspondent Michelle Groskopf chatted with Ladyfag about the evolution of her aforementioned wild style, the ins and outs of a good gender fuck and how women can embrace their inner faggot. Read the results, after the jump.

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Bisexual Pakistani performer Ali Saleem's one clever bitch. Resisting his country's strict policies against homosexuality and gender-bending, Saleem has built a cult following as a the drag queen Begum Nawazish Ali on Late Night Show With Begum Nawazish Ali.

Once a week, Saleem takes the stage as Ali to interview leading politicians, celebrities and other notables. Despite Pakistan's Islamist foundations, Saleem's methods have yielded surprising results. Salman Masood reports for The New York Times:

A real woman could not possibly do what Mr. Saleem does. In the unlikely event a station would broadcast such a show, the hostess would be shunned. And taking on the guise of a married woman — whose virtue is crucial to her whole family — would be equally impossible.

But apparently a cross-dressing man pretending to be a widow is another matter entirely.
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With fluttering eyelids and glossy lips, Begum Nawazish Ali (Begum means Lady or Mrs. in Urdu) flirts with male guests using suggestive banter and sexual innuendo. With female guests, she is something of a tease, challenging them about who looks better. Questions are pointed and piercing. Politics, democracy and saucy gossip are enmeshed in her conversation.

The 28-year old insists that his country's far more liberal than some international critics would like to admit. As a kittenish drag queen, he consistently tests the boundaries of religion, politics and censorship, broaching subjects print journalists could never hope to tackle.

Let's hope Saleem's popularity opens more doors than just the journalistic variety.

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• Even death threats from crazies all over the world isn’t stopping Dolly Parton from adoring the Gays. [USA Today]

• Lee Tamahori only received a slap on the wrist over his drag/queen prostitution arrest. That might have just trned him on some more.He’s kinky enough to be a masochist. [Defamer]

• We didn’t think there was anyone left in the country that didn’t watch The Daily Show. Illinois’ governor better get himself cable. [ABC News]

• You’ll be closer to Madge than ever before when she starts touring smaller venues this summer. But is also means she’s going to charge us twice as much as she did during her Re-Invention tour. [MTV]

• A drag queen, who moonlights as a nightclub singer, is running for Parliament in Italy. Um, she’s got our vote. [Reuters]

• Finally someone who is not attempting to cash in on Hollywood’s recent lovefest with the Gays. Adam Sandler-Kevin James’ fake queer comedy is without a director. [The Advocate]

San Francisco, quite possibly the gayest place on the planet, despite all its glitter, lacks one serious feather in its pink cap: There’s not a single street in the city named after a gay man. That’s soon to change, and they’re naming a street after a drag queen: the city's beloved Jose Sarria!

Now, a gay San Francisco supervisor wants to honor the 82-year-old Sarria by naming a section of a street after the longtime gay rights champion and fundraiser, who also started the Imperial Court System, a social and philanthropy group regarded as the Gay Shriners. Sarria now lives in Cathedral City near Palm Springs.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will vote today on a proposal by Supervisor Bevan Dufty to designate one block of 16th Street as Jose Sarria Place. Dufty's measure, which is expected to pass, would make Sarria the first gay man here to have a street named after him.

We just hope the street’s Christmas decorations match the man its named after: We’re thinking lots of bells, balls, and bows.

S.F. May Name Street for Groundbreaker in Drag [LA Times]

We love our drag queens. Sure they can be catty and sassy in persona, but inside they’re typically total sweethearts. Well at least those that aren’t plunging sharp objects into your lower back. That’s what appears to have happened in Arkansas this weekend. What appears to have been a domestic dispute turned ugly when Joshua Odom, the drag queen performer, stabbed a nameless victim (read: boyfriend/lover/mistress) with...something...while giving him a hug.

Police located the victim at the nightclub, where he was treated for a small puncture wound to the mid/lower back but refused transport to Washington Regional Medical Center. Authorities were unsure of what weapon was used but suspected it was small because of the size of the wound.

Investigators think the incident could be the result of problems in a past relationship involving the two, Gabbard said.

We can only assume that the victim did something that pissed off Odum. An important lesson we learned a while back and one that this “victim” has only recently come to realize is never, ever fuck with a drag queen. Especially one with long, sharp talons for fingernails.

Fayetteville man arrested after incident at drag queen show [NWA News]

Looking for some turkeys to stuff this year? Feces on the Family, or, excuse us, the group is called Focus on the Family, is going to be out in force along the length of the Macy’s parade, distributing materials promoting an ex-gay ministry. Macy’s can’t lift a limp whanger against the group because the parade is on public property. That doesn’t exactly excuse Dr. Phil and Oprah Winfrey, on whose programs “Feces” began running ads this past Monday.

Oprah once said: “Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.” Queerty calls for her to put her money where her mouth is and order the Feces ads removed from her program’s time slots.

An FOF web site offers visitors pages addressing various problems, including “Gambling” and “Spiritual Struggles;” they need to add one for “Narrow Mindedness.”

The campaign of ignorance about homosexuality will include the tossing out of hand-sized squeezable “stress balls” imprinted with the Feces ex-gay message. Queerty can think of no better protest than for drag queens to mob the parade route, catching the balls, squealing with delight, and then padding their bras with them. If Macy’s wants to make it up to us next year, they should introduce a balloon modeled on Jared Leto’s member.

Борис Моисеев , or Boris Moiseev, if you must, is a gender-bending Russian singer, dancer, and showman. In the words of Andrej Koymasky, “His shows are logged with strongest sexual energy, built on craziest artistic idea, without limits and bans.” Well, Boris may put no bans on himself, but a group called In Defense of Russian Orthodox Morals is all over his ass worse than a motorized strap-on.

Boris’s show in Tyumen, Siberia has been sold out for weeks, yet the authorities there have banned it. Those stern nose-pickers at In Defense of Russian Orthodox Morals called the performer a “freak” and said that he would have a “damaging influence on youth.” Last time Queerty checked, the main thing having a damaging influence on youth was the passage of time.

Another group, the Russian Orthodox Brotherhood, is also raining on Boris’s parade, trying to have his show banned in other cities. They should have ice-cold vodka bottles twisted around in their fundaments. Boris Moiseev himself has denounced the misguided censorship of his artistic expression. You can download some of his songs for free here.

On richly fertile land beside the Tigris River a short distance outside Baghdad sits Buhriz, Iraq. The city is currently under guerilla control, bearing testimony to the wisdom of spreading democracy through a shock and awe occupation. This past Friday, guerillas dressed as women carried out a deadly attack against a police checkpoint, killing six and wounding ten.

There is no word on whether any of the transvestite attackers were American turncoat gays serving under the hush-hush suspension of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Wire reports have left out the most important detail of the attack, namely, what the ladies were wearing. Queerty deplores this lack of attention to fashion detail, and encourages cross-dressing guerillas to, if nothing else, pick up the latest issue of Vogue.

The drag attack came just as major queens were getting their deserved measure of respect here in the homeland. While gay leaders fear a redneck backlash in reaction to the guerilla-girl assault, unconfirmed reports say that under stress, Lady Bunny pulled Hedda Lettuce’s wig clear off, and she got so upset that she had an accident on Sha-Boom-Boom’s bonbon. Gay male travelers and servicemen in Iraq are advised that just because it’s in a dress doesn’t mean it won’t have what you want underneath.