Jade Esteban Estrada is a jack of all performance trades. He's appeared on

Comedy Central's "The Graham Norton Effect," danced in Charo's stage show, performed in a handful of overseas theatre productions, and shared the stage with such luminaries as Cyndi Lauper, Sarah MacLachlan and k.d. lang. He's the first openly gay Latin pop star according to Out Magazine, a "creative non-fiction performing artist" and he's coming to a theatre near you.

     Gypsy Productions hosts a short run of Estrada's ICONS: The Lesbian and Gay History of the World, Vol. 1, an original one-man musical theatre piece in which Estrada portrays six gay icons: Sappho, a Greek poet and reputed lesbian who wrote almost exclusively about women (the term lesbian is actually derived from the name of her island home, Lesbos); legendary Italian sculptor and admire of the male figure Michelangelo; flamboyant Irish playwright Oscar Wilde; Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas' better half  and arguably one of the most famous lesbians of all time; Sylvia Rivera, the transgendered woman who was present at the 1969 Stonewall Riots; and talk show host/gay community spokeswoman Ellen DeGeneres.

     This event is held in conjunction with St. Petersburg Pride 2005. You might not want to miss this one.