(He assumes he’d now be Randy Rabinowitz had those ancestors sailed instead to Ellis Island.) And Regenbogen, the German surname of his great-great-grandparents, was translated to Rainbow when they immigrated to England. Randy, not Randall or Randolph, appears on his birth certificate. The first is that Randy Rainbow is not a gay stage name. Randy Rainbow, the social media sensation who rode to the rescue like a one-man musical theater cavalry during the dark days of Donald Trump’s presidency, drops two bombshells early on in his new memoir, “ Playing With Myself.”
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