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Alana Gay is a talented actor, singer/songwriter, dancer and host from Dallas, Texas. She discovered her passion for entertaining at a young age. At age 1, before she could talk, she was singing. At age 3 she asked her parents to “Get me in that box,” as she pointed to the TV screen. That began her journey!. Alana is planning to be the master chef of KIDZ BOP, because this girl can cook!

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She is also a talented singer, songwriter and music producer with experience in both professional vocal recording and filming music videos. Alana Gay is known for Lessons in Chemistry (), Grey's Anatomy () and New to This Planet (). In this essay, Portero reflects on the intersection of class and queerness within post-Franco Spain, the history that is the inspiration behind her novel Bad Habit.

The s was the decade of reality and desire, where love met punishment, beauty danced with death. Heroin swept through Madrid, where I lived, like a biblical plague, and no bloodstain could prevent all that death from entering homes. La Movida arrived to change that, but its reach was not infinite. All that hedonism occurred on two levels: the reality in the centre of Madrid, and the desire in the working-class neighbourhoods.

We were the poor, strange girls who dreamed of the beauty that we saw on the big screen. We secretly danced to the songs of the pop goddesses. We dreamed of a handsome and tortured boyfriend, like Morrissey, or a cheeky and cool one like Dave Gahan, yet inhabiting that endless party of quasi mythological figures was forbidden to us. La Movida , the New Romantics and synth-pop were a dream of hope that existed alongside fairies dancing in the night.

We could only immerse ourselves in its promise, which was a triumph in itself and something wonderful that kept us alive. Class boundaries continued to affect gay lives as they always had. When AIDS emerged, it was devastating to see some of the brightest stars of the time fall — those who had seemed invincible.

It was as if they fell from the sky before reaching it. The mythology was decomposing before our eyes. The political management of the AIDS crisis resulted not only in an enormous, universal neglect of people with the virus, but also served to fuel a violent stigma of sordidness and social danger. This reactivated the scenes of rejection and incomprehension that had been so arduously fought against.

I grew up with the absolute conviction that, one day, the virus would be transmitted to me and I would die young. The discovery of pleasure and the body came hand in hand with an emptiness that can only be understood by those who faced it head-on. For my generation, learning about love and desire was a limited experience. We were initiated to the language of bodies lying on the edge: those who were going to die and those who would be saved.

Our lives were like coins tossed into the air; they could fall heads up or they could fall down dead. The gay scene in Madrid has always been extreme. Francoism, La Movida , the AIDS crisis, the conservative reaction following the stigma of the virus, the first decade of the 21st century of progress, popularity and urban paradise, the gentrification of the second decade, pinkwashing and instantly available news, a Conservative government that hates us and a population that embraces reactionary assumptions with ease, but finds it difficult to hate us because we are part of the DNA of this city.

We are its night, its fun, its mischief, its pride, its value, its dignity, and the refuge whose doors are always open. Madrid is a city that likes to present itself as a conservative, aristocratic lady, but everyone, except herself, knows she is in fact a drag queen.

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