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Fausto Fernós - Chicago, Illinois

As a performer and artist Fausto Fernós has achieved acclaim in a variety of mediums. He started performing at 18 in Austin, Texas, where he self-produced a weekly live soap opera called “SoftMen.” He went on to produce and host other variety shows in Austin, Texas and Chicago, including the “The Mininum Wage Art Series,” “The Big Wig Revue,” and “Pe.A.Ch. –The Performance Art Church.” Fernós is best known in Texas for his unusual cable access talk show “Faustina!” which won several awards, including the Austin Chronicle’s “Best of Austin: Best Cable Access Show” in 1995.

Fernós also has written and directed three musicals dealing with such diverse subject matter as gay biology “Homosexual Personæ,” the first complete dinosaur fossil ever discovered “Mary Anning,” and the search for intelligent life beyond Earth “Voices From The Sky.” Fausto also performs regularly with his band, which was featured at the queer rock concert IDA-palooza along with Bitch and Animal & Pistol Pete and Pop-Gun Paul in the mountains of Woodbury, Tennessee. In June of 2001, Fausto Fernós was awarded by Windy City Media Group, the “30-under-30-award”, a distinction given every year to 30 GLBT visionary people under the age of 30 who make Chicago one of the most interesting cities in the world.

In June of 2003, Fausto’s solo work was feautured in the exibition “Confessions of the Avant-Garde” a retrospective of the Cleveland Performance Art Festival history and legacy. Fausto Fernós was selected out of literally thousands of images, artists, and media as one of the 20 featured artists included in that exibition. Others artists included were: Blue Man Group, Karen Finley, Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Goat Island, and Holly Hughes. Currently Fausto produces and hosts “the Feast of Fools”- the worlds most downloaded podcast for a gay and lesbian audience.

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Birth Name: Fausto Fernós

Stage Name: Fausto Fernós.

Drag name: I was known as "Faustina" on Austin Cable Access Television from 1993-1995.

Assumed Gender: Male

Favorite Color: Blue

Age in relation to Larry King: Several centuries. When I'm in times of doubt I ask myself WWLKD? (What Would Larry King Do?)

Body Type: Mesomorph (but I'm working on it!)

Your best feature: My eyes because they match my hair naturally.

What turns you on: Pollo Al Carbón and my husband Marc Felion.

Favorite Type of Sushi: Salmon. I also like Unagi.

What's playing on your iPod right now: The broadway produciton of HAIR the musical, featuring Nell Carter. That woman could sing!

Best thing that happened to you last year: Started the podcast of course! It's allowed Marc and I to grow closer as a couple, and it's also allowed us to meet all sorts of fabulous and fun people.

Worst thing that happened to you this year so far: Our car got wrecked by a crazed cab driver, and the insurance companies refused to pay for any of the damages, tying up the settlement in unecessary paperwork.

Favorite Movie: Without You I'm Nothing starring Sandra Bernhard (1990) That film changed everything for me. She made me want to get up on that stage and sing and share my stories.

Favorite Snack: My mom's Arroz con Pollo (it's delicious.)

Name of childhood pet & species: Jimmy (daschund)

What instruments do you play: Piano, violin, and I love to sing like Minnie Ripperton.

First Love: Adam Small (deaf guy from Beaumont ,Texas)

If your vagina wrote it's own monolouge, what would it say: Come on in boys! It's nice and warm inside.

What kind of drink do you like to fix for your guests? Blue Margaritas.

Worst childhood experience: My father would lock us up in the car while he would run into the photo copy place to make photocopies so he wouldnt have to find a parking space.

Most annoying thing about popular culture to you: The trend that people think they can become famous for doing nothing, and that people think that being famous solves all

Who is your favorite fat celebrity: Bruce Villanch.

What's your biggest waste of money: Fancy salad dressings.

What gets you high? My computer.

If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be? A mahogany tree.

Do you belive in God/Life After Death: No, but if I ever win a Grammy or a basketball game I'll be sure to thank him.

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