NEW YORK -- The Velvet Mafia joins George Michael, Ani DiFranco, Bob Mould, the B-52s and many more in receiving a nomination for the 3rd Annual Gay/Lesbian American Music Awards. The band's 1998 release, "We Know Where You Live", was nominated in the Best Debut Album category.

Refugee of the 80's Island Records act Dean and the Weenies, Dean Johnson (New York's reigning six-foot-six-inch bald drag queen who also spewed his attention-grabbing tune "Fuck You" in the film Mondo New York) plays ringmaster to his caustically catchy clan of degenerates and outcasts in a full frontal assault on 'normal' America. "We Know Where You Live" spews stories of queer life in their own unique feisty and poignant trash-rock style - a Ritalin-free Dr. Seuss for adults.

GLAMA was created in 1995, and is the first and only national music awards program to honor the work of out lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender recording artists. Nominees were announced in a live broadcast on March 2nd. The 3rd Annual GLAMA Ceremony will be held April 12th in New York City.

Trip Records, a nationally distributed independent label of hard-hitting Queer music and musical contortionists of all disciplines, leads this curiously alluring circus parade from the tent and into your homes from their ticket stand-cum-headquarters in Maine.

+ Streaming Audio Soundbytes, lyrics and more can be found on the internet at http://www.tripnet.com/trip/velvet/