Justin Bond: 'I think everybody's trans'

Justin Bond hit the big time as rabies Kiki Duran cabaret legend. Now, Hermione Hoby is transsexual singer has found a new identity

is the hottest day of the year, but little Justin Vivian Bond, artfully cluttered loft in New York cabaret singer is elegantly dressed head to toe in black and smiling serenely. This is the disarmament of - among other things because peace is incompatible with the most famous creation, James Bond. In 1990, Bond Duran performed as Kiki, an angry former cabaret singer, hanging breast, big hair and lost forever. Kiki ranted and sang, accompanied by her pianist gay grass (also known as Kenny Mellman). Kiki and Herb has become a cabaret phenomenon, touring worldwide.

Now, however, Kiki is dead - or at least "in a nursing home in New Jersey." With his death, Bond has flourished. There is a new album, Dendrophile, a next memory , Tango: my childhood back and heels, and a current run of dates in London. But it is a new pronoun. Bond is a transsexual and adopted the middle name of Vivian and the word "v". C ' is a way to reject the gender binary.'s website that all Bond noted: "If you see or hear the words he or she, he or she, he or she, referring to me, I take either as a personal insult, a weak mind (easily grant), or (worst case) of sloppy journalism. "

Located in the model of fuchsia paisley bed, under the gilt-framed portraits of Joan Didion and Jean Genet, Bond said: "I tried to choose something that was as simple as possible is to create a space for people. like me who work for what we're talking. "Now 48, Bono said the move was motivated by age, adding with a laugh:" I'd rather be in a house in the camp concentration of total nursing transsexuals full of old men! "

recently started estrogen therapy. "It feels really good. I like the way my body looks like. Emotionally, I adapted. "However, there are times when, say v" I get my fangs. " What happened the other day: "I went to buy a bra and women in the store was really transphobia, so I had to get a" hyper-articulated'."

• transphobia is now more of a problem of homophobia? "I do not think, because both are rooted in misogyny. Although there is misogyny, it will transphobia and homophobia. Not long ago I was walking and someone called me "fag" in a block and lesbian "on the other. It tickled me, but it was horrible. I think everyone trans. "

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was worshiped as Kiki, but through the film Shortbus 2006, in which the character of V presided over a salon of sexual diversity, in Brooklyn, which began to forge the identity v public as "Justin Bond." Miss you Kiki? "Nahhh" Bond smiled, but the flow of memories. "We eat mushrooms and during the show they produce, I want to get into a real state, which was great because we get into this character. I think there was a need for someone to how anger Kiki. " The character "out of my own trauma on AIDS and so many people die."

Having left behind the building, Bond has had a prolific year. "Writing songs has become a tool for me to get in touch with my own voice, which is also part of Dendrophile -.. be in contact not only with the eroticism of nature, but the eroticism of his own nature "The open sensuality, American Wedding, begins:" In America, I put my cock ring on its side. "

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