[OutVoice] The Advocate - "First gay Latin star honored in Kentucky"

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The Advocate

"First gay Latin star" honored in Kentucky 


Photo by Thomas Downs.

November 2, 2006

Read it online:
http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid38567.asp

Kentucky governor Ernie Fletcher recently paid tribute to Latin comedian and 
singer Jade Esteban Estrada by commissioning him the title of "Kentucky 
Colonel ," the highest honor awarded by the Commonwealth of Kentucky, which 
acknowledges outstanding ambassadors of goodwill and fellowship around the world.

The San Antonio native began his entertainment career as a scratch vocalist 
for the Backstreet Boys and as choreographer to television personality Charo. 
He has been seen on Comedy Central's The Graham Norton Effect, In the Life on 
PBS, and his Latin dance music can be heard on the Golden Globe– and Emmy award–
winning police drama The Shield. Out magazine calls him "the first gay Latin 
star." 

In September he debuted his solo musical ICONS: The Lesbian and Gay History 
of the World, Vol. 3, which won the award for Best Solo Performance and Best 
Original Music at the Columbus National Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival for his 
portrayal of Mary Cheney, the out lesbian of U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney. 


Estrada joins other honorary colonels such as Winston Churchill, Ronald 
Reagan, Bob Hope, Joan Crawford, Mae West, Johnny Depp, Muhammad Ali, and Pope John 
Paul II. (The Advocate) 


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