Hey everybody, it's Jason Sims with the Houston Voice.
This is another edition of Gay in the City Live.
We're here at F-Bar for the first annual About Magazine's Face Awards.
Let's take a look around and see what's going on.
All right, hey guys, here I am with Marcia Mello.
So Marcia, what are you doing here tonight?
What's the big deal here?
Well, I'm going to be doing a little bit of a deal, maybe.
I've been nominated for a couple of awards, not really looking to win, trying to be modest.
It's just out for a good time.
It's a great thing that Kayden Michaels has done with About Magazine.
Just glad to come out and support.
That's good.
That's good.
So you're really not thinking you're going to win anything?
No.
No.
It's just an honor to be nominated.
It's my new thing, Humble.
Oh, I like that.
Never seen this before.
Well, it used to be a bully, but you know, that doesn't really work out that well for
some people.
All right, guys, we're going to go around and look around some more.
Okay, ladies and gentlemen, tonight I am a presenter right now, later on I'll be a nominee,
no coincidence.
Okay.
So I want to present these awards to you guys tonight and after we bring out the winners,
you will have one minute, no more than one minute to say your speech.
If you bust out a notepad, I won't take it from you.
You know, just a quick tidbit, in my mid-20s, I stopped entertaining, period, I was like,
you know what, this is not for me, I'm not going to do this, I'm going to work behind
the scenes.
And I came back to Houston three years ago to kind of start over and help my mom, and
I had nothing, and she had nothing.
And everything that I have right now is because of the Houston community putting me back in
the spotlight.
That's just really unexpected, gosh, I love every single one of the women in my category,
Nina, I know she's, I don't think she's heard of me, but I, I love her, I love her too.
It is such a gift and a blessing to even be nominated for this, so thank you everybody,
thank you so, so much for putting my name even in the hat, this is such a gift.
I'm really shocked, I'm really, really, really shocked, so thank you so much, everybody,
thank you to the community for being so warm and open and welcoming and, um, just for really,
really supporting me through everything I do, you all have been the most supportive, amazing,
awesome fans I could ever possibly have and friends more than anything, so thank you,
thank you, thank you, thank you.
Here I am with Wendy Taylor.
Wendy, so you've been nominated this year, you won, actually.
I did. That's so awesome.
It's crazy is what it is, it's not.
And being in the gay community, being straight, how does it make you feel knowing that you've won an award?
Amazing, actually, um, you know, I always considered myself family, I grew up with an aunt, Suzanne, and Uncle Julie,
so I didn't realize that there was an issue at all until I got to high school,
especially growing up where I did out in the country where I think we didn't really have much diversity at all,
so it wasn't until somebody said something kind of obnoxious in class that I stood up
and said something and realized that I was the minority.
And then it turned out that my sister was gay and she's been with her partner Sue,
which has been amazing to watch their journey and something that I wanted to model my own relationships after.
They've been together going on 10 years now, which is amazing, so it's been,
it's been such a gift and a pleasure to be a part of the community and to be open to
and welcomed into the community the way that I have been has been more than I could ever imagine or ask for.
It's just, yeah, it's huge.
That's awesome, I mean, you've done so much, I mean, you were American Idol Top 40,
you've been on American Idol twice, I mean, that's awesome,
and then here you are now, you're winning an award, I mean, it's got to be a really great feeling
to see how you're welcomed into the LGBT community.
Yeah, there is absolutely nothing, there are not enough words for me to say.
I've always been kind of the black sheep if you can, you know, say that.
Right, the red-headed stepchild maybe, no, but except that I'm not a stepchild,
but I've always been kind of outside the box and I really enjoyed making waves,
so I've always felt more at home with the LGBT community than I have in, I guess,
the quote-unquote straight community.
I've been lucky enough to have the family that I have where we don't see color,
we don't see gender preferences, we don't see any of that stuff,
so it feels like home, and it's amazing to be a part of a community
that doesn't see boundaries,
because I think boundaries are what really hold us back as humanity anyway,
so it's, yeah, it's really a gift, this is awesome.
Well, congratulations on your award tonight, and hopefully next year we'll see more out of you.
I know, just to be, you know, nominated with somebody like Ty Blue
is pretty amazing in two categories, actually, so...
There you go.
I want to have his babies.
So there we have it, it's been great here at About Magazine's first annual FACE Awards,
and this has been another edition of Gay in the City Live.
Have a Merry Christmas.
So here it is, one last goodbye for us, this is Jason here.
I'm doing it anything.
I'm doing it because you.
Can I get a copy of the outtakes, please?
That's my jam.
Yeah, I'm sure.
I can't mess with you.
I can't do your business.
No, I cuss too much.
All right, I'm sorry, let me fix my face.
Okay.
All right, so here we go, one, two.
All right, so here we are, guys, we're at About Magazine's first annual FACE Awards.
It's been a great show, and we'll see you again, this has been another...
I can chop this.
Okay.
All right.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I take it back, I take it back.
Well, no, I don't, but I take it back.
All right, so...
That's what she said.
Hey, everybody, I'm Jason Sims with the Houston Voice, and this is another version of...
Hey, Jason Sims here with Houston Voice.
It's another edition of Gay in the City Live.
We're here at F-Bar for About Magazine's...
Sound out.
F-Bar.
