Talk:Taylor Mac

Lady Gaga influenced by Taylor Mac

On May 4, 2015 an anonymous user added: Mac's bold and eccentric costumes and makeup are not influenced by Lady Gaga as some might thought. In fact, it is the other way around. After attending one of Mac's one-man show and enjoyed Mac's eerie style, he became one of many artists to inspire Lady Gaga's bold and eccentric costume style.

This is great information. Please add it back in if you can provide citations and make it read slightly more neutrally. Thank you! --Lange.lea (talk) 12:26, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

LGBT actors is a container cat

It doesn't allow articles, only subcats. Hoping someone with relevant knowledge can choose appropriate subcategorization for this article. --Slivicon (talk) 00:53, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the info! I changed it to subcat queer actors, based on Mac's use of the term in a WNYC interview now linked in the external links. If anyone else has a better solution, please respond here too! --Lange.lea (talk) 00:42, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

Category American actor vs. American male actor

On April 30, the category American actor was removed and replaced with American male actor by User:Johnpacklambert. I am reverting this based on the following:

1. Per WP:BLP, special care must be taken in writing information about living persons. Such articles must express a high degree of sensitivity.
2. Per the WP:BLPCAT, it is imperative that categories in biographies of living persons are substantiated by the article itself and through reliable sources. In this case, the substance of the article makes it clear that this individual and much of this individual's work goes against categorization as male.
3. As per WP:CATEGRS, categorization by gender must be relevant to the topic and it must be a defining characteristic. In this case, gender non-conformance is extremely relevant to the topic and an important defining characteristic of Mac's work. Precisely because of this, the the male gender category avoided. It is a defining quality of this artist's work to defy that very category.
4. Recent publications on this artist's work have recognized and followed Mac's use of a non-gender-conforming pronoun, see for example:

• Charles McNulty's "Taylor Mac Offers a glorious sneak peek of '24-Decade History of Popular Music' at Royce Hall" published in the LA Times on March 14, 2016.
• Campbell, A., & Farrier, S. (2015). Queer dramaturgies: International perspectives on where performance leads queer. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Wilcock, Morgan. "A (Trans)cendent Stage." The Eye: The Magazine of the Columbia Spectator. February 6, 2014. 16(2). 7-10.
• La Rocco, Claudia. "Reviews: Taylor Mac at New York Live Arts." Art in America. 2015-05-13.
• Wong, Curtis M. "Taylor Mac Tackles The History Of American Pop In Brooklyn". The Huffington Post. 2015-07-31. Retrieved 2016-05-06.
• Green, Jesse. "Theater Reviews: The Politics of Identity Two Ways, in Taylor Mac’s Hir and George Takei’s Allegiance". Vulture. 2015-11-08. Retrieved 2016-05-06.
• Krasinski, Jennifer. "Jennifer Krasinski on Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music". ArtForum. 2015-02-13. Retrieved 2016-05-06.
• All of Mac's biographies published on the websites of foundations and other organizations that have supported Mac's work, including Playwright's Horizons, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and Howl Round.

Since American actors is a container category, I have changed the category to 21st century American actors, a non-gender-based subcategory of American actors.

If others disagree with this, let's discuss it here. --Lange.lea (talk) 17:45, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

great biography

In case anyone is looking for source material to add to this article, here's a (velvet) goldmine of it. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/theater/taylor-mac-24-decade-history-of-popular-music.html DFS (talk) 20:51, 12 October 2016 (UTC)