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Trans Woman and Visual Artist J. Jackie Baier on Committed Collaborations

Edit Huffington Post 31 Mar 2016
Berlin-based artist, J. Jackie Baier, specializes in night photography and a black and white grainy aesthetic, which captures someone, or thing, barely emerging ... She also lived through the AIDS crisis, and was a contemporary of the Dutch trans cabaret star and nightclub queen of Germany, Romy Haag, whom she has portrayed for poster art ... "The point zero of perspective was empty. The mirror, center of reflection, was broken." ... ....

Watch Lorde’s Moving David Bowie Tribute

Edit Vanity Fair 25 Feb 2016
Before the performance, Bowie’s friend Gary Oldman took the stage to accept an award on Bowie’s behalf and share some moving words about the late legend. “In recent years, David sparingly spoke about music and his process,” Oldman told the Brit Awards audience ... ... ... We love you and we thank you.” X ... David Bowie enjoying the night with Dutch actor Romy Haag at the club L’Alcazar, after his concert at the Pavilion in Paris, May 1976 ... by L ... ....

From Marlene Dietrich to Iman

Edit Billboard 14 Jan 2016
David Bowie was a theatrical production of David Jones, and like all theater, he required many people behind the scenes, pulling up the curtains and ­sewing the costumes ... There was Edith Piaf and Shirley Bassey and transgender performer-artist Romy Haag, who sparkled for Bowie and Mick Jagger in Berlin nightclubs. Haag says Bowie was four hours late to a tour date once because he was staying with her in Germany ... ....

David Bowie and my Queer Awakening

Edit Huffington Post 13 Jan 2016
I rarely write about anything personal anymore. It's all op-eds, science, and political wonkiness. Yet when I woke up Monday morning to find David Bowie had died, it hit me hard. Far harder than I would have thought. It was all I could do to hold back tears often during the day ... I loved his costumes, and the fluid, aggressive way he moved ... Bowie, ever the sexual omnivore, also had a transgender muse and fling named Romy Haag in the 70's ... ....

Berlin remembers its famous Lodger

Edit The Irish Times 11 Jan 2016
During his time here Bowie was a regular sight at West Berlin nightspots, including Kreuzberg’s SO36 club and the drag club of the entertainer Romy Haag. “David’s friendship was the light of my life,” said the 68-year-old Haag yesterday ... in the decades since, Haag has dined out on claims that she had an affair with Bowie during his Berlin years and broke up his marriage....
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