The Trans Handy Ma'am, Mercury Stardust tells her story on Amber Live!   

This week on Amber Live, the drag queen comedy talk show, Amber  Interviewed the incredible home maintenance expert, Mercury Stardust!  Mercury Stardust is a Professional Home Maintenance Technician,  burlesque performer, and award-winning activist. Known widely as the  Trans Handy Ma'am, her unique brand of compassionate education in the  Home Repair space has earned her internet fame. With over 2 million  followers on TikTok, Mercury spreads DIY knowledge with love.  Her  expertise includes rental maintenance, landlord negotiations, clogs,  drywall, painting, minor electrical repairs, caulking, and more.  Her story inspires, teaches, and connects with audiences while also  advocating for change for the LGBTQIA+ community. Her hope is to inspire  a new generation of queer youth to live their truth boldly, for allies  to protect the most vulnerable in the community, and to teach others  life long skills for their homes in order to be able to provide  themselves with a safe sanctuary in a tumultuous world.

The Golden Gals Live!  Amber chats with the cast including Ginger Minj  and with Senator Megan Hunt.  Picture it: Miami, 1991! A Hurricane comes to town, bringing with it  unwanted house guests, old flames, new loves and nonstop nostalgia.  Written, directed and starring Ginger Minj from Rupaul's Drag Race and  Hocus Pocus 2 comes The Golden Gals Live! This all new show pairs iconic  moments you know with characters you love and weaves them into an  original adventure chock full of funny!  The Golden Gals Live! presented  by FruitWine Productions

Why did Nebraska State Senator Megan Hunt amend a bill to ban children  from attending “religious indoctrination” camps? Amber gets the chance  to ask her! You won't what to miss what she has to say on this subject.

Senator Megan Hunt is a small business owner, community activist, and mother first elected to the Nebraska State Legislature in 2018 and re-elected in 2022 to represent District 8; becoming the first LGBTQ+ person ever elected to the Legislature, and the first woman ever from the district. A sixth-generation Nebraskan, Megan has lived and worked in the district for the past 18 years. Megan founded Hello Holiday, a community-facing boutique and e-commerce company in 2012.

Today, she is the owner of a stationary shop in Benson. Senator Hunt currently sits on five committees in the Legislature; Business and Labor, Urban Affairs, Government, Military and Veterans Affairs, Committee on Committees, and State-Tribal Relations.

The opportunity for public service through elective office opened for her in 2015, when Hunt’s public school district was considering a new comprehensive sex education curriculum to educate students about sexual health, consent, and healthy relationships. Since then, she has remained committed to uplifting the voices of the marginalized and forgotten. Megan is passionate about public education, reproductive justice and gender equity, workforce development, and reducing brain drain in the Midwest. Since taking office, she has worked with other senators from across the state to tackle food stamp reform, tenants’ rights, access to healthcare, and affordable housing in Nebraska. Megan has introduced 45 bills and cosponsored 131 bills, 46 of which passed with bipartisan support and were signed by the Governor.

Megan is the founder and Vice President of Safe Space Nebraska, a 501(c)3 working to end harassment and assault in nightlife establishments. She is a trustee of the Business Ethics Alliance and has served on the boards of Charles Drew Health Center, Friends of Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, Friends of the Nebraska AIDS Project, and Omaha Area Youth Orchestras. Megan’s work and impact has been featured in dozens of publications including Forbes, INC, The Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, the Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, and others. In acknowledgment of her legislative efforts, she has been awarded the Henry Toll Fellowship, David Bohnett Leaders Fellowship, Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance Leadership Award, and CSG’s Bowhay Institute for Legislative Leadership Development Fellowship, among others.

As a business owner, community leader, and parent, Megan has worked with commitment and discipline to help people from all walks of life prosper in our state. Her track record stems from her belief that the more everyday Nebraskans are empowered and supported to improve their quality of life, the easier it is for all of us to live the good life in the Cornhusker State.

As a writer, interviewer, activist, and historian, Owen Keehnen has helped create and nurture the vibrant cultural landscape of  Chicago’s LGBT communities. His articles have appeared in local and  national LGBT newspapers and magazines, and his work includes short  stories, novels, and historical essays. He has served on the board of  Chicago’s Gerber/Hart Library, and has published numerous books.

From 1988 to 2004, he worked at Unabridged Bookstore, where he  coordinated the gay men’s reading group and recommended thousands of  LGBT titles to readers. Keehnen began interviewing authors, activists,  and artists in the darkest part of the AIDS era. He felt compelled to  record the LGBT experience of the time with more than 200 interviews. A  compilation of more than 100 of his interviews is the basis of his book  “We’re Here, We’re Queer: The Gay ’90s and Beyond”.

Dedicated to the preservation of LGBT history, Keehnen contributed 10  articles to the 2008 book “Out and Proud in Chicago” and co-edited  “Nothing Personal: Chronicles of Chicago’s LGBTQ Community 1977–1997”, a  compilation of the columns of the late Jon-Henri Damski. With Tracy  Baim, Keehnen was co-author of two extensive biographies of Chicago LGBT  legends, “Leatherman: The Legend of Chuck Renslow” and “Jim Flint: The  Boy From Peoria”. Both works help to preserve and chronicle the rich  cultural, social, and political development of Chicago LGBT life from  the 1950s to the present.

Keehnen was on the founding committee of The Legacy Project, an  organization dedicated to installing bronze plaques along the North  Halsted Street corridor to honor notable LGBT historical figures as well  as to educate the public. He is the project’s board secretary and wrote  many of the nominee biographies on its website. In 2009–10 he served on  the board of Gerber/Hart Library and Archives as chair of programming.

Keehnen’s work has been published in newspapers, periodicals, and anthologies worldwide, including The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review and the New York Native, and was often in the iconic gay literary magazine Christopher Street.  He was also co-editor of the “Windy City Pride Literary Supplement” for  several years. His novel “The Sand Bar” will appear in 2012, and his  humorous coming-out novel “I May Not Be Much But I’m All I Think About”  is at e-gaymag.com

He served as monitor for several NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt  displays, worked as a massage therapist for AIDS Care Chicago, delivered  meals for Open Hand Chicago, stocked shelves for its GroceryLand,  volunteered for Howard Brown Health Center, was a team captain of the  first AIDS Walk in Chicago in 1990, and participated in various ACT  UP/Chicago demonstrations.

Owen Keehnen has used his gifts as a writer to help foster LGBT  literary culture and preserve the rich LGBT past, and he has used his  heart to make life better for those in need. (Note: information listed  has not been updated since the member’s induction).

Robert E. Blackmon talks about the  recent attacks on the LGBTQ, drag  queen, and trans community and gives us an update on the Church Muva’s  upcoming LIVE appearance!  Brought to you by the drag queen comedy talk  show, Amber Live!

Investigative journalist Becca Andrews explains Drag Panic and the fall  of Roe V. Wade!  

Becca Andrews tells Amber about the Right’s homophobic campaign against  drag performers. Her recent article in Reckon News looks at how it  played out in Jackson, TN.  Brought to you by the drag queen comedy talk  show, Amber Live!  

Becca Andrews is an investigative journalist at Reckon News who writes  about reproductive justice, religion, and inequality. Her work has  appeared in Mother Jones, Wired, The New Republic, and Jezebel, among  other publications.

Amber is thrilled to chat with the amazing talent that will be at  Stowe's LGBTQ Winter Pride Festival, Winter Rendezvous: Miss Richfield  1981, Jackie Beat, DJ cRAIG mITCHELL, and Debby Holiday! Celebrating 40 years, Winter Rendezvous offers a host of outdoor activities, parties,  and entertainment sure to delight avid skiers and non-skiers alike!

Debby Holiday

Debby Holiday, International singer/songwriter with 17 Billboard Top 20 Dance Chart Hits, broke onto the dance scene with her #5 Billboard summer anthem Dive in 2004. Holiday followed the smash hit Dive with her power ballad Half A Mile Away, which shot into the Billboard Top 10, along with Debby's follow-up dance hit Bring It On. All of Debby’s subsequent dance singles broke into the Billboard Top 20 including, Piece of My Love & Surrender Me (with the incredible Tony Moran), Joyful Sound, featured in the hit show Sordid Lives: The Series, from writer/director/producer Del Shores, starring Olivia Newton John.

Amber is thrilled to chat with the amazing talent that will be at  Stowe's LGBTQ Winter Pride Festival, Winter Rendezvous: Miss Richfield  1981, Jackie Beat, DJ cRAIG mITCHELL, and Debby Holiday! Celebrating 40  years, Winter Rendezvous offers a host of outdoor activities, parties,  and entertainment sure to delight avid skiers and non-skiers alike!

DJ cRAIG mITCHELL

With nearly 27 years behind the decks, cRAIG mITCHELL has served as a  resident at New York City's legendary Tunnel and Limelight nightclubs  and has played many of the country's most celebrated venues and club  nights, while also doing his thing for international crowds in Canada,  the Dominican Republic and Jamaica. He continues residencies at Rise in  Boston and Twist in Miami, but focuses on his several more open format  weeklies in Burlington, VT, these days as a break from travel and  production.

Amber is thrilled to chat with the amazing talent that will be at  Stowe's LGBTQ Winter Pride Festival, Winter Rendezvous: Miss Richfield  1981, Jackie Beat, DJ cRAIG mITCHELL, and Debby Holiday! Celebrating 40  years, Winter Rendezvous offers a host of outdoor activities, parties,  and entertainment sure to delight avid skiers and non-skiers alike!

Miss Richfield 1981

Dedicating her life to the friendly citizens and responsible merchants of her hometown of Richfield, Minnesota, “where butter is a spice and gravy is a beverage”, Miss Richfield 1981 is fast becoming one of America’s national treasures. This Midwestern maven is winning over theater audiences around the country with an interactive format that combines homespun warmth and edgy improv, leaving audiences in hysterics.

Amber is thrilled to chat with the amazing talend that will be at  Stowe's LGBTQ Winter Pride Festival, Winter Rendezvous: Miss Richfield  1981, Jackie Beat, DJ cRAIG mITCHELL, and Debby Holiday! Celebrating 40  years, Winter Rendezvous offers a host of outdoor activities, parties,  and entertainment sure to delight avid skiers and non-skiers alike!

JACKIE BEAT

Drag superstar JACKIE BEAT has been entertaining audiences across the U.S. and in Europe for over TWENTY-FIVE YEARS with her razor-sharp comedy and hysterical song parodies. Jackie not only warps hits by Britney Spears, Madonna, Mary J. Blige, Christina Aguilera, Cher, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Mariah Carey and many others, but she flawlessly sings her twisted new versions LIVE — hitting every last note.