Madame (of Wayland Flowers) interview with writer Jacques Lamarre by Deven Green 

I wish I had been able to see Waylon and Madame. I ADORED her! ❤❤

I remember Madame from Hollywood Squares when I was a kid. I didn't make the queer connection until right now! Thanks!

I'm an old geezer. I remember seeing them in the "Hollywood Squares" episodes.

I watched Madame's Place 5 nights a week!

Always loved Wayland and Madame. Thank you, Deven, for this video. Gonna go check out Madame, now.

That is nice they were all good people. May they be in Heaven.

Thank you for the memories!

Thanks Deven for the blast from the past!

I was first introduced to Madame on Solid Gold. I would laugh and laugh and laugh with her. Now that I'm older, I get the jokes. If Madame is making a comeback, COUNT ME IN!!!!!

Madame always cracked me up. I found her TV show Madame's Place here on RU-vid and LOVED it. Rest in Peace, Wayland.

I love you Deven! Saw you at Dragcon online and your Betty persona. And now I love you more for bringing us Madame and her new writer! As a child born in the 70s, Madame was one of the first camp icons I connected with. Thanks guys!

I really loved this THANK U for making this 💓

I had forgotten about Madam and Wayland until now. I was quite young when I viewed this amazing comedy team. Much of the humor escaped me, but outgoing, brazen Madam always intrigued, and fascinated me. Each viewing was always entertaining. Then life intervened and television was set aside. The quality of entertainment as with Madam no loner exists, and I simply have no desire to watch what passes as entertainment in or time.

thanks for the edugaytion!

off to check out too x

Seven you are simply adorable

Wow, did not know that. I do remember the act. Sad how stigma is attached to things.

Deven you are looking deliciously devilish in red. You and I are two peas in a pod. Ageless. Seamless perfection.

If you read the Wikipedia, they really make it sound like Wayland might have had dysphoria and may have been trans inside.

The obituaries of the late 80s, early 90s had those causes of death: liver cancer. Wayland's disseminated Kaposi't Sarcoma, I haven't heard it that way before. KS yes. But he must have been using a lot of makeup to cover up those 'wine kisses.' KS can be internal. They can be found during a colonoscopy. Even in 1976, cancer was known as the Big C. Long illness, brief illness. Pneumonia. Brain cancer sounds better than toxoplasmosis. Cryptosporidium. The homophobic relatives would write obits to spare them the embarassment, shame. Partner of the deceased were legal strangers in the eyes of the law. Adoption of one partner by the other was one legal strategy. Not on the deed, not on the lease...kicked out of the residence. Dispossessed of a material life built together. When Harvery Fierstein's character is denied any of the ashes, my mother spoke of his reaction as venting his spleen. Closet of grief, and bereavement. John Gotti did not get a Catholic funeral, but he was buried in hallowed ground*; a person who acted on their " intrinsically disordered" condition--not a practising Catholic. No sacraments for you. When Quentin Crisp was asked if he was a practising homosexual, he responded, "NO! I'm perfect at it!" *Although Bishop [Thomas] Daily denied Gotti an Ecclesiastic Mass, he compromised by allowing Gotti's Catholic burial. John Gotti was interred alongside his son, in the family mausoleum inside St.John's Cemetery, as he had wished. scholarship.law.stjohns.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=jcls