STEVEN SATYRICON is a multidisciplinary performance artist, writer, poet, and practicing Witch who has called San Francisco his home for 21 years. Queerness and non-normative gender roles have been a definitive part of his life experience since early childhood, when he prefered Strawberry Shortcake dolls to G.I. Joes, and he would tear off his clothes and run naked into the woods whenever he could--much to the shame and bedevilment of his relatively conservative, middle-class suburban parents.

Steven pursued singing and theater in school, but Alabama in the 90s was not exactly a welcoming place for radical self-expression or queerness (much less drag), so he eventually dropped out of college to become a beatnik hippie vagabond, which eventually led him to Atlanta, Georgia and the magical world of clubs and nightlife. He was a gogo dancer and fetish performer at the definitive Gothic-Industrial BDSM nightclub The Chamber (which was the host of Pat Briggs' "Glitterbox" monthly drag/clubkid/genderfuck event) and a regular at the legendary and infamous 24-hour den of sin called Backstreet Atlanta, the original home of Charlie Brown's X-Rated Cabaret, where he first began to become integrated into drag and trans culture.

The week he moved to San Francisco, Steven was plucked from the waiting line of a then-new party called Colossus, and thrown in front of the camera of Eric Stein (aka Shuttterslut), who was the in-house photographer at The Stud for much of its peak clubkid era. Before a year had passed, Steven was a high-profle gogo dancer and club personality; at the end of 2003, Heklina invited him to move beyond being a "drag prop"/supporting performer, and perform as a solo artist/headliner at her longrunning and incomparable club night/drag show Trannyshack. Ironically, Heklina always expressed frustration at Steven's lack of conformity to the "rules" of drag--bearded queens and genderfuck had not yet resurfaced on the community's radar.