Jackie Beat is a drag star of stage and screen. Highlights of her career include leading roles in the movies Grief (1993), Wigstock (1995) and Scream, Teen, Scream! (1996), which was based on her stage play. Her cabaret performances have entertained and humiliated audiences at Club Fez in New York, Trannyshack in San Francisco, and God only knows what sorts of venues in Los Angeles.

I first encountered Jackie at the Cock, a bar in the East Village, where she yelled at me for crossing the "stage" during her act. Apparently she has forgotten this incident, because she consented to be interviewed at my home in San Francisco prior to a disastrous screening of Scream, Teen, Scream (DVD compatibility problem) at Peaches Christ's Midnight Mass movie series at the Bridge Theater. More about Jackie at jackiebeatrules.com.