There is: I think we all want to blaze our own trail, but LGBTQ people in particular have always had to do that. Nothing! (Norma). What many people take for granted, like choosing a church for one's faith, or starting a family with one's family's blessings, LGBTQ people have to fight for. Sign up for membership to become a founding member and help shape HuffPost's next chapter, Register to vote and apply for an absentee ballot today. In 2009, when I was guest-blogger at Boing Boing, I helped get the ball rolling on the Royce and Marilyn craze: It’s hard to believe that this jaw-dropping series of videos of Royce Reed and Marilyn Hoggatt isn’t a massive YouTube sensation… but it will be. You can't sing an opera.

We made it easy for you to exercise your right to vote! After becoming completely exasperated with the state of mind she has put herself in, she heaves a sigh and says, "God on a wheel!". Part of HuffPost News. Mimi Berlin©2010/2019 Part of this site contains a blog with images we don’t own, we always try to credit each image properly. But not quite. Her YouTube views totalled 706,799, at last count -- not much in this age of video sharing, when you consider that not all of those viewers will be permanent fans. Bill Geerhart and Andrew D’Ambrosio’s campagin on indiegogo is closed. We couldn’t find it sadly….

They planned to make a documentary from this material.

Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. I was saddened to hear that Royce Reed, co-star of the “Royce and Marilyn” viral videos has passed away. Happy Birthday, Kelly! Royce Reed and Marilyn Hoggatt; “two of the most unusual ladies ever to grace downtown L.A.” The makers of these clips are Bill Geerhart and Andrew D’Ambrosio. They filmed the ladies from the 1990s until 2010 at the Hotel Stillwell in downtown Los Angeles and later residences. "I'm trying to relax and wait to commit suicide" (Royce). Royce and Marilyn are two elderly ladies from “another era” and these videos document their lives in a SRO hotel in Los Angeles’ downtown “skid row” area (where they share a bed). Nothing! Where is the film. There are some people who express themselves so well using voice inflection and body language that they could be speaking a foreign language and you would still know what they are saying. Some nobodies!" That's Royce. "I am big. Others, like me, will be captivated and attempt to memorize her famous alcohol-laden rant to Marilyn about the beautiful days gone by, when she attended concerts featuring the music of "Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Grieg. Royce Reed and Marilyn Hoggatt, you see, are emissaries from a more refined time, women who do not end their sentences with prepositions, nor with the declarative question mark that is the California style. They planned to make a documentary from this material. by charlie warhol published on 2012-05-29T05:09:09Z. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. They are the Rolls Royces of kook, because they have that special something that appeals to all of us, LGBTQ people in particular. If you want to receive Mimi Berlin's posts by email please enter your address below. JPMorgan Chase announced today that Royce Reed, David Page and Jim Young will expand their leadership roles at the banking company as longtime Oklahoma …

It’s as unique as either and yes, it totally deserves to be spoken of in such esteemed context with these aforementioned FREAKS. Royce Reed and Marilyn Hoggatt live in a slum L.A. single room occupancy hotel where they drink chardonnay and play dress up. God! My voice doesn't compare, so: Read the LA Times article

I was saddened to hear that Royce Reed, co-star of the “Royce and Marilyn” viral videos has passed away. Mariyn Hoggart was featured on youtube with her friend Royce Reed.Back in 1999, the LA Weekly ran the definitive profile on Royce and her comic partner Marilyn Hoggatt. Some will view her videos and listen to her cantankerous laments, and that will be it. According to the Royce Obsessed Facebook page: “She passed Tuesday evening. One of them is happy-go-lucky and content with her life, the other is totally haughty with delusions of grandeur and an ever present glass of bubbly. Gay adoption, yes. Why would I have to be a victim of all this garbage, that crap that you like?" A lot of models feel that way" (Little Edie). You may not know who she was.