Ever since her infamous 1972 tell-all of her career as a legendary New York madam, she’s often been the center of attention. Such moments are all in a night’s work-and play-for Hollander. There she was, in the very flesh that the crowd knew in literary detail: the Happy Hooker, Xaviera Hollander. “I just want to propose a toast to the woman of the night, the reason why we’re all here, and the reason why we all went to bed satisfied after reading under our covers with a flashlight, Miss Xaviera!” Every head turned to the heavy-set, silver-bobbed, 60-year-old woman holding court in a white vinyl booth. At the Manhattan nightclub Spa the other night, the Lady Bunny-New York’s preeminent drag queen DJ-flipped back her blond bouffant and selected a disco track while a man in a red bowler hat and matching zoot suit used his cigarette to slowly pop balloons that were tied, bondage style, around limbs of his female partner.Īs the music quieted, a pudgy man with a lisp and heavy black eyeliner took the microphone.
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