`Fabulous Sylvester' a lively drag.(Travel-Books) Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) | March 13, 2005 | COPYRIGHT 2005 Albany Times Union. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

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Sylvester was fierce. Not necessarily combative or mercurial, although the flashy performer could certainly be those things, but fierce in the singular way that an unabashedly saucy, openly gay black diva has to be. Best remembered for a handful of disco warhorses, especially ``You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real),'' Sylvester was a singer, drag performer, and a natural-born partyer. Born Sylvester James Jr. in 1940s South Central Los Angeles, he was reborn in 1970s San Francisco, at the gaudy dawn of the modern gay rights movement. Dead more than ...

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