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b'Anthony Hudson might have earned the tongue-in-cheek title of \\u201cPortland OR\\u2019s premier drag clown\\u201d even if he were not Portland\\u2019s \\u2013 and perhaps even the country\\u2019s -- only drag clown. He has delighted and terrified Portland audiences in equal measure as his alter-ego Carla Rossi for over 12 years, performing carefully honed satire in a variety of venues, including the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art.At Portland\\u2019s historic Hollywood Theatre, both Anthony and Carla program and host \\u201cQueer Horror,\\u201d the only LGBT horror screening-and-performance series in the country. Anthony also co-hosts with writer Stacie Ponder the queer feminist horror podcast \\u201cGaylords of Darkness.\\u201dA member of the Confederated Grand Ronde Tribes, Siletz, he recently was one of four Indigenous artists to present work in an exhibit titled \\u201cAlways Here\\u201d at The Arts Center in Corvallis, OR. In the exhibit, he and his fellow artists separately and collaboratively created conceptual pieces that upended perceptions of what Native art can or should be.Anthony also wrote the solo autobiographical play \\u201cLooking for Tiger Lily,\\u201d which he has performed in theaters all over the country and has toured internationally, from Melbourne to Vancouver. He is currently adapting the play into a book.In this interview with Pier Carlo Talenti, Anthony explains how he developed Carla Rossi and her particular flavor of drag performance and describes the joys and dangers of being an outspoken queer clown when drag in particular has become such a dangerous cultural flashpoint.https://www.thecarlarossi.com/https://theartscenter.net/always-here/https://www.grandronde.org/history-culture/culture/chachalu-museum-and-cultural-center/'