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Lady Gaga influenced by Taylor Mac

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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)[reply]

LGBT actors is a container cat

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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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Category American actor vs. American male actor

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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:

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)[reply]

great biography

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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)[reply]