The HX Awards

• Address:
  Lincoln Center Plaza, 66th St. and Colombus Ave.
  New York, NY 10023

Taking place around the 3rd week of June in the awe inspiring setting of Lincoln Center Plaza, the HX Awards is an ultra-glamorous star-studded event captivating the attention of all the faggots and trannies from across the 5 boroughs.

Admittedly, there is no shortage of awards ceremonies honoring the freaks and the fags swarming in New York City’s underground. But between the Next “Out There” Awards, The Glammy Awards, or The Pill Awards, the HX Awards remain the most prestigious, authoritative and classy event of the lot.

With high production values and drama, this award ceremony is a sacred date on New York’s gay calendar. It is indeed a rare occasion for all of the city’s most retarded drag queens, lewd pornographers, publicity-starved club promoters, whacky burlesque performers, and the new age troubadours of the underground to appear in broad day light and elicit stupor and disbelief among the Upper West side residents and Lincoln Center visitors. In 2007, Jonny McGovern set the tone for this decidedly politically incorrect event when he took the stage dressed as a priest, singing with a choir of transvestites and drag queens, accompanied by a tambourine-shaking tranny, conjuring the spirit of faggottyness and spreading the queer gospel to an unbothered crowd of downtown scenesters drawn by the promise of a vodka open bar.

The year before, Kiki of Kiki and Herb downed a whole bottle of Jack Daniels throughout the course of the evening, butchered Madonna’s “Hung Up” and Mariah’s “We belong Together”, and finished up the night crawling on top of her piano, delivering the most poignant message of community love and empowerment, adjoining us to rise up against the bashers and the haters, celebrate our diversity and show our pride.

This sums up the both futile and profound significance of this make-believe award ceremony, which spares no effect to emulate the pompousness and seriousness of its mainstreams counterparts, while putting under the spotlight the most daring, subversive and unabashed gay artists to have risen from New York’s seedy cabarets and sleazy dance floors.