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Drag king Johnny Mozzarella puts the cheese in machismo

Drag king Johnny Mozzarella puts the cheese in machismo Johnny Mozzarella sauntered onto the drag king scene a couple years ago, only to become Portland, Oregon's favorite, according to a Willamette Week readers poll. Mozzarella fancies himself as quite the ladies man too. His nursing student alterego Maryanne Cassera recalls, When I was a little kid, I used to have short hair, and I would be mistaken as a little boy." At the time it annoyed her, but later on, she just figured, Why not? Mozzarella appears regularly with local ensemble DKPDX and has performed in Ljubljana, Slovenia, even Portlands own City Hall. Part of Casseras goal, and perhaps the secret of Johnnys success, is to challenge the hypermasculine drag king stereotypes. "Not only do I challenge the notion of gender, but also of masculinity.�
[Date: 11-Jun-05 ]