Circuit MOM is Celebrating Her Birthday This Weekend In Chicago!
Matthew Harvat Will Celebrate His 50th Birthday with ‘Halloween Revolution – Haunted Hollywood’ In Chicago.
Chicago, IL — Matthew Harvat, a.k.a. CircuitMOM, is gearing up to celebrate his 50th birthday the best way he knows how -- with a glamorous, theatrical, over-the-top costume party, of course. Hosted at the House of Blues, Harvat is excited to make "Halloween Revolution -- Haunted Hollywood" his best birthday to date, and he's had some good ones.
Fondly, he remembers his 43rd birthday, for which his then-partner Roger convinced 55 of his friends to dress in drag as a surprise gift to Harvat. Initially lead to believe the night would just be a small dinner party (for which Harvat cooked, serving as his distraction), guesting s started showing up in drag in twos and fours, filling the place to capacity and beyond until only Roger and Harvat himself were left un-wigged. Few of these men would ever go out of the house in drag, Harvat stressed, but when Roger implored "all these years he's entertained us in drag, now it's time for us to entertain him" fair only seemed fair.
After all, Harvat and his performances have made a stamp on the contemporary gay world like few others, though he shirks the idea of being a gay idol. Nonetheless he and his alter ego CircuitMOM are known internationally and Circuit-wide for their unique and unforgettable shows.
"People for years were trying to get me in drag and I always said no," Harvat told ChicagoPride.com. "I guess I was kind of scared because growing up in Oklahoma you couldn't really be gay -- that was back in the early 80s... and not only that, but I was never really exposed to any sort of drag other than Billy Crystal's character on "Soap", or the movie "Seven Year Itch" or Milton Berle, or Harvey Korman on the Carol Burnett Show, so you know it was always funny drag... but I didn't really understand what it really meant to be in drag or a drag performer until I came back to Chicago and I started going to Boystown."
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