Get to know outrageous stand-up comic, Broadway diva, and jazz singer Lea DeLaria, who celebrates being butch with an edgy new show at NYC’s 54 Below, Lea DeLaria is the Last Butch Standing: Chronicles of an Old School Butch in a Post-Ellen, Modern Society.
By Brandon Voss
1. What turns you on, creatively or otherwise?
Lea DeLaria: Scallops, Swiss chocolate, Katy Perry, Sigourney Weaver, the Yankees, hard cheese, a well-played tenor sax, Gypsy, Spring Awakening, the movie Bitch Slap, soft cheese, sushi, Audra McDonald, Richard Rodgers, and the women’s ensemble dressing room.
2. What’s a good tip for someone who wants to be you for Halloween?
Strap on a big one and carry a flask of tequila.
3. Which celebrity’s hair do you covet most?
Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
4. What would your death-row last meal be?
Just a salad; I wouldn’t want the electric chair to make my ass look fat.
5. What’s your juiciest vice or guiltiest pleasure?
Jewish straight girls… I can’t put ’em down. That’s why you will usually find me at a Chinese restaurant.
6. What extravagant purchase should probably make you feel guiltier?
An 8-ball and a couple of hookers.
7. When’s the last time you wanted to slap someone?
Last night at The Eagle.
8. What most likely made that stain on your outfit?
Motor oil.
9. Describe your favorite undergarment.
Black satin thong with red lace trim… not on me.
10. What’s a lie you’ve told more than once?
“Of course I’ll call.”
BONUS: Where do you see yourself in five minutes?
Laying down track for a cartoon audition.
DLNQNT, July 2012.