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Justin Vivian Bond
Justin Vivian Bond (born May 9, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter, author, painter, performance artist, occasional actor, drag queen, and Radical Faerie. Described as "the best cabaret artist of his generation," and a "tornado of art and activism," Bond first achieved prominence under the pseudonym of Kiki Durane in the stage duo known as Kiki and Herb, an act born out of a collaboration with long-time co-star Kenny Mellman. With a musical voice, self-described as "kind of woody and full with a lot of vibration." Bond is a Tony-nominated (2007) performer, who has received GLAAD (2000), Obie (2001), Bessie (2004), Ethyl (2007), and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2012). Assigned male at birth, Bond is transgender and prefers the gender-inclusive honorific ''Mx.'' (in place of ''Ms.''/''Mr.'') and pronoun ''v'' (with ''vself'' instead of ''her''/''himself''), a reference to the artist's middle name.〔Ordonez 2011.〕
==Early life==
Bond grew up loving popular songs and the beautiful women who sang them. Reared in the remote suburbs of Hagerstown, Maryland, the artist's early role models appeared via the stereo and the television set. From early on, Bond longed "to sing, be amusing, and wear fabulous outfits" like Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, and Cher. The young Bond idolized "more icy people" like Joan Didion, Patti Smith, Marianne Faithfull, Vivien Leigh, and Grace Kelly,〔Kessler, 2013〕 keeping scrapbooks of Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave.〔Als, 2011.〕 Listening to the family's eight-track tapes in the back seat of a white, Buick Skylark on road trips, Bond preferred a recording of Billy Vaughn and his orchestra because "it sounded like a movie soundtrack" for an imaginary film in which Bond, wearing high heels, played the leading role. Bond recalls falling in love with an album for the first time at the age of four after hearing ''Wildflowers'' by Judy Collins, and soon became obsessed with Karen Carpenter.
Though assigned male at birth, Bond (born Stanley Huffman Bond III but known as Chip) never identified as such, preferring lipstick and Barbies and, later on, sex with boys. Consequently, Bond grew up feeling "invisible," resenting the younger sister who "got everything I wanted." As "a trans kid in a small town," Bond recalls feeling that "I wasn't being accepted for who I was, but at the time I didn't even have the words to express who I was." Meanwhile, Bond was taking voice lessons and singing in church and in the local community theater, appearing in shows like ''Brigadoon'', ''Kiss Me, Kate'', and ''The Sound of Music'', and channeling comedienne Gilda Radner for schoolmates. Within a personal netherworld of ambiguous gender and sexuality, Bond had begun to construct an identity as a performer.
Bond studied theater at Adelphi University on Long Island from 1981 to 1985.〔 The newly minted freshman saw Simon and Garfunkel in concert in Central Park, but it was visiting Carnegie Hall for the first time to see Judy Collins that invoked the realization that "I had escaped my hometown and was finally beginning to live the life I'd dreamed of."〔Bond, 2014-09-10〕 Bond went to London to study theater in the summer of 1984, befriending fellow student Victoria Leacock, daughter of the filmmaker, Richard Leacock. Leacock knew Jenny Lumet, a granddaughter of Lena Horne, and managed to get Bond backstage to meet Horne, who appeared "icy, intimidating, beautiful and talented -everything I hoped to be one day."〔 Bond later sported a pair of Horne earrings as a souvenir. Meanwhile, Adelphi advised Bond to become more "butch" in order to earn a living in soap operas.
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