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Living on the Edge: Recent Queer Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area
Greg Youmans
This past December, I made a short video with my boyfriend and collaborator Chris Vargas about the relationship in the early 1970s between San Francisco’s hippie drag troupe the Cockettes and future disco diva Sylvester. On New Year’s Eve 1969, the Cockettes danced into the spotlight with a rambunctious, drug-fueled stage performance as part of the “Nocturnal Dream Show,” Steven Arnold’s midnight experimental-film program at the Palace Theater in North Beach. More performances followed and…
e-flux Journal
Posted: April 1, 2013
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Performance, Theater, LGBTQ+
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Queer Art & Theory, Biography, Video Art, Experimental Film