Podcasts about The Cockettes

For our 50th episode, we talk to the legend PEACHES CHRIST about one of her favorite music documentaries, D.A. Pennebaker & Chris Hegedus' DEPECHE MODE 101. We discuss why this film became Pennebaker's favorite film (over his films about Dylan & Bowie) and why the film director wasn't a fan when he first started the project, Peaches discovery and obsession with the VHS tape of this doc, how even though Depeche Mode were straight they loved their queer fans, how the band grew into a global sensation, the choices of editing in the film, how the filim was the precusor to MTV's The Real World & Road Rules, the time Peaches set the stage of her celebration of the film CARRIE on fire, John Waters & Mink Stole, youthful indescretions, the legendary film series MIDNIGHT MASS which includes drag queen rollerderbies and free lap dances with each tub of popcorn purchased, early Halloween productions in the woods, dealing with Russ Meyer, The Cockettes, the boredom and nerves of waiting to go onstage, how different the era was for the the kids in the film and how different it would be made today, the pressure of Depeche Mode playing the rose bowl, nerds as rock icon, Wax Trax Records, trying to upset your parents through your music tastes, when people who are mean to you start loving your favorite bands, Dave Gahan's stage presence, Freddie Mercury, Peaches' regrets with Depeche Mode and the band's crossover into the masses, waiting in line to get concert tickets in a mall, Robert Smith Vs. Ticketmaster, what the fans felt as Alan left Depeche Mode, the grind of band interviews, and Chris discusses the early days of his video store and the search for cult film obscurities.So let's watch the curtain drop to reveal the band on this week's Revolutions Per Movie!!!https://peacheschrist.comREVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE:Host Chris Slusarenko (Eyelids, Guided By Voices, owner of Clinton Street Video rental store) is joined by actors, musicians, comedians, writers & directors who each week pick out their favorite music documentary, musical, music-themed fiction film or music videos to discuss. Fun, weird, and insightful, Revolutions Per Movie is your deep dive into our life-long obsessions where music and film collide.The show is also a completely independent affair, so the best way to support it is through our Patreon at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie. By joining, you can get weekly bonus episodes, physical goods such as Flexidiscs, and other exclusive goods.Revolutions Per Movies releases new episodes every Thursday on any podcast app, and additional, exclusive bonus episodes every Sunday on our Patreon. If you like the show, please consider subscribing, rating, and reviewing it on your favorite podcast app. Thanks!SOCIALS:@revolutionspermovieX, BlueSky: @revpermovieTHEME by Eyelids 'My Caved In Mind'www.musicofeyelids.bandcamp.comARTWORK by Jeff T. Owenshttps://linktr.ee/mymetalhand Click here to get EXCLUSIVE BONUS WEEKLY Revolutions Per Movie content on our Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

- Drag Queen Joan Jett Blakk (Terreance Smith) campaigns for Mayor and President of the United States. - Pioneered efforts in human and women's rights. - Rocky Horror Picture Show'esque campaign chants - Activism-inspired play starring Tarell Alvin McCraney at Steppenwolf's award-winning theater production.   Recorded at Edge Studios online in San Francisco

In Part 2, we dive into the story of how The Stud Collective pulled out the seemingly impossible—they found a new home in South of Market.   After a quick history of the space at 1123 Folsom (a leather bar in the Seventies called The Stables, Julie's Supper Club, a sports bar, a restaurant called Radius, and a vegetarian restaurant called Wellspring Commune that was a front for a cult called The Tribal Thumb, who were affiliated with the Symbionese Liberation Army ... and that space is rumored to have been one of the places that the SLA kept Patty Hearst—oh, San Francisco), Rachel guides us on a tour of the original location of The Stud, which was opened by Alexis Muir (a trans woman) in 1966.   Muir ran the OG Stud, also on Folsom west of the current location, for several years. Originally, it was a kinky/leather/cowboy/Western bar. It was the same year, just months before, that the Compton's Cafeteria Riots took place. Just a few years after it opened, The Stud shifted themes to more of a queer hippie bar. But one thing that helped it stand out from the get-go was its inclusivity.   The Stud remained in that original spot on Folsom until 1987. After Muir, a group of Milwaukee hippies who were also affiliated with Hamburger Mary's took over ownership. After this group, toward the end of the Seventies, another group took over. In 1987, following a dispute with the landlord, The Stud had to move. They found a spot on Harrison at Ninth that had previously been a nightclub.   We fast-forward a bit to revisit Marke, Rachel, and Honey's introductions to The Stud, which all took place at the Harrison location. Keeping with that spirit of inclusivity that had been a hallmark of the place since its opening, they all feel that it was the one place at the time where any segment of the queer population could feel at home.   In 2016, over Fourth of July weekend, The Stud's then-owner, Michael McElheney (who'd owned the place since the late-Nineties), announced that he was selling the business. The building it was in had been sold, the new landlords tripled the rent, and McElheney was ready to retire. But, as mentioned in Part 1, Nate Albee already had a plan in place.   Within the first week of McElheney's announcement, the fledgling collective presented the plan and it was accepted immediately. The group was already around 20 members strong. Honey and Rachel talk about other SF collectives and worker-owned businesses that they turned to for guidance and inspiration—Rainbow Grocery, Arizmendi, and the now-closed Lusty Lady. Marke says that, from its origin, the collective also wanted to serve as a beacon for how to do this elsewhere in the queer nightlife space.   On New Year's Eve 2016, The Stud Collective threw its Grand Opening party. The place never shut down between the previous owner and the collective taking over, but it felt right to celebrate the takeover.   Then, a little more than three years later, COVID hit. The rent was already exorbitant and they had decided to try to find another place. Once it became obvious that the shutdown was going to last longer than we all thought, they got out of the lease at the spot on Harrison, and even threw a funeral online. It wasn't an easy decision, but it turned out to be a unanimous one for the collective.   The Grand Opening Night at the new location took place this year on April 20 (haha?) and was themed "Stud Timeline." The first hour, which began at 6 p.m., was Sixties, the second hour was the Seventies, and so on. The Cockettes were there. Queer elders showed up. There were also first-timers.   It was a big deal, and the night was emotional for them all.   I asked them to plug events at The Stud during Pride, and Rachel obliged on behalf of the group: Friday, June 28, "Forever" with (co-op member) Vivian Forevermore Saturday, June 29, "Les Femmes," a celebration of dolls, twinks, and bimbos Sunday, June 30, a "marathon party" with a drag show hosted by Princess Poppy   We end Part 2 with Marke, Honey, and Rachel responding to this season's theme on the podcast: We're all in it.   We recorded this episode at The Stud in South of Market in June 2024.   Photography by Jeff Hunt

DAVID WEISSMAN:This week, we talked to David Weissman (the co-director of ‘The Cockettes' & ‘We Were Here') about the amazing documentary ‘The Cockettes'—documenting the trailblazing, avant-garde drag & music ensemble from the late 60s. We discussed the origin stories of The Cockettes, John Waters' passion for the troupe and his involvement with the documentary, the difference in the ways the 60s played out for The East Coast vs. The West Coast, the emerging SF punk scene & brushing your teeth with drugs.So let down your hair and put on a show with this week's episode of Revolutions Per Movie!!!David Weissman:https://davidweissmanfilms.com/cockettes.comhttps://sylvester.bandcamp.com/album/private-recordings-august-1970Theme by Eyelids 'My Caved In Mind'www.musicofeyelids.bandcamp.comArtwork by Jeff T. Owenshttps://linktr.ee/mymetalhandHost Chris Slusarenko (Eyelids, Guided By Voices, owner of Clinton Street Video rental store) is joined by actors, musicians, comedians, writers & directors who each week pick out their favorite music documentary, musical, music-themed fiction film or music videos to discuss. Fun, weird, and insightful, Revolutions Per Movie is your deep dive into our life-long obsessions where music and film collide.New episodes of Revolutions Per Movies are released every Thursday, and if you like the show, please rank and review it on your favorite podcast app. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is our 40th episode of Spill your guts and the final episode of season 2. We will be taking a few weeks to recharge our batteries and prepare season 3. Also, we'll be catching up with folks and checking out some new movies at the amazing Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal this week and next week so we'll be taking you with us. Thanks to my incredibly hard-working team for a fantastic season and to all of you for sitting down with us. Much more guts to be spilled in season 3 and once again, thank you for joining us. Our guest today is one of the genres great showmen. His films are whacky, funny, boundary pushing, musically charged, sexual, gruesome, occasionally satirical but never mean spirited but most of all, a hell of a lot of fun. There is no one else like him and no other films like his. Today we are joined by the hilarious, thoughtful and wonderful…  Richard Elfman. Richard is very much an auteur. His 1980 cult classic “Forbidden Zone” is an upside-down topsy-turvy musical adventure of madness. It is basically impossible to classify. Not really a horror film, nor musical, nor fantasy… it's a Richard Elfman film and that means you're in for a good time. With masterful scores by his brother and frequent collaborator, the legendary Danny Elfman, Richard has a filmography of impossible to classify movies that all carry his distinct signature as filmmaker. Richard's films also have a strong DIY quality that speaks to his determination to get his films made the way he wants to make them. I can only imagine what a pitch meeting with studio execs for “Aliens, clowns & geeks” would be like. Actually, that would be awesome. I'd love to be in that meeting.  Richard discusses his approach to filmmaking including the joys of bringing your family and friends onboard, his two personas, finding his tribe as the director of San Francisco transvestite performance group “The Cockettes” and founding the beloved “Mystics Knights of the Oingo Boingo”. As an added bit of awesomeness, Richard has provided us with musical tracks by Danny Elfman, Ego Plum and Radioactive Chicken Heads from his new film “Bloody Bridget”. “Bloody Bridget” is absolutely insane and a total blast. See it with an audience if you can and keep an eye out for a kick ass performance by Richard's wife Anastasia Elfman in the titular role. Let's take a trip into the forbidden so with the maestro of madness, Richard Elfman! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

On the latest Whisper in the Wings from Stage Whisper, we are bringing you a legendary group as they return to New York City! We were joined by producer, Dan Karkoska (aka DJ Dank), to talk about The Cockettes and their upcoming show, Second Cuming. We discussed this celebrated group and their renowned history and all the excitement around their illustrious return to New York City. As well as swapped several theatre tid bits and memories! So be sure to tune in for a fabulous and dare we say a tad raunchy new episode. And be sure to attend this amazing show featuring the glorious and unforgettable Cockettes!The Cockettes: Second CumingSaturday, September 9th at 9:30pm@ Joe's Pub at the Public TheaterTickets and more information can be found at publicteather.orgAnd be sure to follow Dan and The Cockettes to stay up to date on all their latest projects and productions:The Cockettes: @cockettesaregoldenDan: @djdanksf FB: dankarkoskadjdanksf@gmail.com

Are you feeling the chill of winter? As the rains give way to the flowers of May and/or March let's enjoy the present moment and hear what Scrumbly Koldewyn, DJ Dan Karkoska, and the rest of the Cockettes have in store for you! It may just raise your freak flag! Sex educator and musical theater geek Monika Thomas and Paul Brumbaugh from the Edge of Insanity enjoy a live performance where Scrumbly Koldewyn searches for the perfect banana for you and me and everybody else. "As the chilly winter gives way to spring, there is a feeling in the air, a need for rebirth and everything it takes to get there–fauna blooming, bunnies and chickies being born and giant phallic objects rising into the air needing to be worshiped. The legendary Cockettes give the Rites of Spring their own unique twist as original Cockette Scrumbly Koldewyn brings you Res-Erection, a colorful musical revue featuring new songs and classic Cockettes numbers inspired by the changing season, bunnies, love and lust. Prepare for a night of Cockettes musical mayhem featuring Aaren Smith, Birdie Bob Watt, Bonni Suval, Carl Linkhart, Christian Heppinstall, Kitten on the Keys, Matt Bratko, Noah Haydon, Steven Satyricon, Jordan “Sunshine” Bontrager and more. Cockettes Res-Erection will be such an amazing Spring Awakening, it may even raise the dead!"

This week we're concluding my conversation with filmmaker David Weissman (We Were Here, The Cockettes, Conversations With My Elders) with part 3 of our talk. Previously we talked about his background in hippie enclaves of Los Angeles in the 1960s, and then his move to San Francisco. We ended our last conversation on a pause, since it was moving in a direction David wasn't prepared to talk about — and so this week we're resuming with an explanation of what happened.

COCKETTES: ETRNAL EMISSIONS will be performed Sat., Dec. 3 and Sun., Dec. 4 at 7:30 pm, at PianoFight Oakland – 1540 Broadway (at 16 th St.) in Oakland. 94612 - (Nearest BART 19 th St.) Tix - $60 - $40 - Cabaret Seating, Front Section Seating, Back Tickets for Cockettes: Eternal Emissions _____________________________________________________________________ Scrumbly Koldewyn (Ensemble/Musical Director/Piano) started performing, composing, directing for the Cockettes at the inception and has been managing to survive by performing, composing, writing & musical directing in musical theater and cabaret. After the Cockettes, some of his most active groups/projects have been: Rickettes, Tale Spinners (4 productions), Theater Workers (4 productions), The Distractions, The Jesters (3 European Tours), Dirty Little Show Tunes, NCTC [8 productions], Stagebridge, and the Thrillpeddlers' Cockette's Revivals & sequels [8 productions] and segments of Shocktoberfests [5]. History: The Cockette's sprawling, kaleidoscopic pantheon of colorful personalities included icons including: Hibiscus and Sylvester, and was often augmented by special guests, most notably drag superstars Divine & Mink Stole. The Cockettes were ahead of their time, especially in the acceptance of gender fluidity and glittered beards, and they changed the face of drag forever. Although the Cockettes disbanded in 1972, its many members kept the group's spirit alive; in 2009, a theater troupe called the Thrillpeddlers  helmed  by Russell Blackwood revived a legendary Cockettes show called Pearls Over Shanghai to much acclaim and a long 22 month run. Playing on the interest already garnered by David Weissman & Bill Weber's The Cockettes documentary released in 2002, interest in this troupe was reawakened and entertained an entirely new & appreciative audience. Over the next decade, The Thrillpeddlers continued recreating Cockette shows under the watchful eye of the original songwriter and Cockette Scrumbly Koldewyn. ________________________________________________________________________ Leave a review on Apple Podcasts (Itunes) Green Room On Air Web Site: http://greenroomonair.com  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/raysgreenroom/ Opening and Closing Music by Carly Ozard: http://carlyozard.com Contact Ray at Green Room on Air: greenroomonair@gmail.com   

While they weren't around for long, the Cockettes left an outsized legacy that we explore this week with exclusive recordings and interviews.

While they weren't around for long, the Cockettes left an outsized legacy that we explore this week with exclusive recordings and interviews.

David Weissman is a documentary filmmaker, public speaker and longtime activist. He is best known as producer of the films THE COCKETTES, WE WERE HERE, and CONVERSATIONS WITH GAY ELDERS. David was also co-founder of QDoc—The Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival. Episode Highlights David shares about how he became an accidental filmmaker while he followed his path of activism. We discuss how his style of interviewing to elicit personal story colors the depth of his documentaries on queer history. David talks about his Gay Elders Project and value of including queer elders in his documentary work. He also talks about using younger folks to edit Gay Elders Project, and the importance of intergenerational collaboration. David provides insights into his connection between activism and filmmaking. Web links Find him online at DavidWeissmanFilms.com   Join the private Queer Spirit Community to continue the conversation and connect with other listeners.  Grab your FREE Mini-Course: The Self-Confident Queer - start here.  And follow us on Instagram!  Join our mailing list  to get news and podcast updates sent directly to you.

San Francisco theater has had a long history of inviting everyone to shine onstage and shake their groove thing. Since the 1960's, with performance troupes like the Cockettes, fabulous drag acts and male burlesque all incorporate anyone with a dream of being seen.But when you have a lot of performers with stars in their eyes and two left feet, the show can grind to a halt if the choreography isn't accessible.Today San Francisco choreographer to the stars Rory Davis joins us to talk about his work wrangling the top drag queens, movie stars and entertainers into fabulous shows. From his Richard Simmons inspired dance classes, to coordinating some of Peaches Christ's productions and getting the fellas to bare it all in BALONEY the popular male burlesque revue, Rory delivers the moves that make anyone shine bright like a diamond.RORY DAVIS: instagram.com/rorykdavisEpisode #3043

Meet artist and actor Fayette Hauser, a co-founder of the Cockettes, the 1969-‘72 experimental San Francisco performance troupe known for eye-popping costumes, glittery beards and sexy musicals.

Meet artist, designer, photographer and actor Fayette Hauser, a female co-founder of The Cockettes, the 1969-‘72 experimental San Francisco theatre troupe known for eye-popping costumes, glittery beards and sexy musicals some called anarchic. Her beautiful...

Feeling defeated by last week's overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court? As an antidote to the bad news, we share this origin story from Author, Psychotherapist, Kinkster, Sex Radical and Ethical Slut, Dossie Easton. This story was told at Dossie's Story Toast in 2019, where we celebrated both her 75th birthday and the 50th Anniversary of *this*, Dossie's life-changing trip to a new sexually empowered version of feminism. Gather your strength and be inspired by Dossie's true tale as we prepare to challenge what's next. #WorkToDo #TooIntelligent #TooOutspoken #TooStrong #TheRiddleOfTheUniverse   Song: ‘Unstoppable' (Sia) About the Storyteller:   Dossie Easton, a long time player on the San Francisco S/M scene, is co-author with Janet Hardy of The Ethical Slut, The Bottoming and Topping Books, and Radical Ecstasy:  SM Journeys to Transcendence.     Dossie is a psychotherapist working with individuals, couples and more in her private practice in San Francisco, with a particular interest in how S/M journeys into Shadow can bring old wounds into the healing light of consciousness and and give them a shot of life force in the form of good hot sex.    An active sex radical since 1961, Dossie was a member of the first Board of Directors of the Society of Janus in San Francisco in 1974, and active with SFSI from 1973 to 1985. Currently she makes her home in the mountains north of San Francisco, travels to teach at conferences all over the world, and wanders through the mountains around her home declaiming filthy poetry to the vultures. You can check out her website at www.dossieeaston.com.   Episode links:   Everlywell: Everlywell at-home lab tests give you physician-reviewed results and personalized insights so you can take action on your health and wellness—all at an affordable and transparent cost. With over thirty tests, you'll be able to choose the ones that make the most sense for you. Everlywell's Food Sensitivity, Metabolism, Sleep & Stress, and Thyroid are just a few of the many options - and, their STD Test discreetly allows you to test for 7 types of STDs, all from the privacy of your own home. 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The Cockettes were a flamboyant, gender-bending, hippie drag troupe active in San Francisco beginning in 1969. Scrumbly Koldewyn was one of the original creators of the group and shares the story of their creation and his view of their legacy on this week's Out in the Bay.

Rumi Missabu - The Cockettes - in conversation with David Eastaugh Rumi Missabu is a founding member of the San Francisco-based, glittery drag-spectacle known as The Cockettes. A prominent group within the experimental, psychedelic theater and arts scene, the Cockettes were known for pushing the boundaries of drag and sexuality and exploring gender fluidity from the 1960s on. One of their most well-known and often-revived productions is Pearls over Shanghai, a mock-operetta set in 1937 Shanghai in which issues of miscegenation and white slavery are explored. Film credits for Missabu include the documentaries The Cockettes and Uncle Bob and the short The Glitter Emergency. Throughout the 2000s, Missabu continued to collaborate with artists and musicians as well as be involved in revival shows of Cockette productions

It's taken a while but we finally dive into the John Waters filmography with his first studio film, Polyester(1981). Starring Divine as Francine Fishpaw, a poor housewife who's life is in a downward spiral, and 50s heartthrob Tab Hunter as Todd Tomorrow, the man who sweeps her off her feet. This is Water's first attempt at an almost mainstream film. Discover the film's influences, the effects it had on Hunter's career, and more in this episode of Celluloid Fever Dreams Films mentioned in the episode: Lust in the Dust, The Scent of Mystery, Grease 2, The Cockettes, Written on the Wind, and The Tingler --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/celluloidfeverdreams/support

In this episode we invite Holly George-Warren — beamed in from upstate New York — to tell us about her long and distinguished career as a journalist, author and editor.Holly revisits her North Carolina childhood and early infatuation with pop radio, then talks about her move to New York City in the early '80s, her East Village bands Clambake and Das Furlines, and her long tenure at Rolling Stone Press. Barney, Mark and Jasper ask her about the latest of her many books — her acclaimed 2019 biography of Janis Joplin — and tie this in with two clips from a 1984 audio interview with Peter Albin of Big Brother & the Holding Company, including his account of Joplin's impact on the band in 1966.Conversation turns to the passing of Michael Nesmith, the Monkee who walked away from pop fame to commence life as an eccentric country singer-songwriter. We hear a clip of the lugubrious Texan speaking about the Monkees in 1974, then discuss "America's Beatles" [sic] and Nesmith's own singular musical legacy.Mark and Jasper talk us out with their reflections on new library pieces about John Peel (1969), the Cockettes (1971), Daft Punk (1997) and artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (2000).Many thanks to special guest Holly George-Warren; please visit her website hollygeorgewarren.com for details about her books, including Janis: Her Life and Music.Pieces discussed: Janis Joplin, Peter Albin audio, The Monkees, Michael Nesmith, Mike Nesmith audio, Marc Bölan, John Peel, The Cockettes, Ronnie Scott, The Sex Pistols, The Life and Work of Basquiat and Christmas singles.

In this episode we invite Holly George-Warren — beamed in from upstate New York — to tell us about her long and distinguished career as a journalist, author and editor. Holly revisits her North Carolina childhood and early infatuation with pop radio, then talks about her move to New York City in the early '80s, her East Village bands Clambake and Das Furlines, and her long tenure at Rolling Stone Press. Barney, Mark and Jasper ask her about the latest of her many books — her acclaimed 2019 biography of Janis Joplin — and tie this in with two clips from a 1984 audio interview with Peter Albin of Big Brother & the Holding Company, including his account of Joplin's impact on the band in 1966. Conversation turns to the passing of Michael Nesmith, the Monkee who walked away from pop fame to commence life as an eccentric country singer-songwriter. We hear a clip of the lugubrious Texan speaking about the Monkees in 1974, then discuss "America's Beatles" [sic] and Nesmith's own singular musical legacy. Mark and Jasper talk us out with their reflections on new library pieces about John Peel (1969), the Cockettes (1971), Daft Punk (1997) and artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (2000). Many thanks to special guest Holly George-Warren; please visit her website hollygeorgewarren.com for details about her books, including Janis: Her Life and Music. Pieces discussed: Janis Joplin, Peter Albin audio, The Monkees, Michael Nesmith, Mike Nesmith audio, Marc Bölan, John Peel, The Cockettes, Ronnie Scott, The Sex Pistols, The Life and Work of Basquiat and Christmas singles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 55 is conversation with "Rock and Roll Jackie" Stewart of legendary west coast noise/experimentalists SMEGMA. She also makes music today as half of The Tenses with her partner and Smegma founder Ric "Ju Suk Reet Meate" Stewart. Jackie joined Smegma in 1983, ten years after the collective was founded in Pasadena, CA. but her west coast underground bone fides stretch back before the 'Summer of Love'. She tells us about seeing the Grateful Dead playing on a flatbed truck in the panhandle of Golden Gate Park in 1966 as a 10 year old. Her adolescent dreams of coming of age in San Francisco and one day joining the The Cockettes were dashed when her family relocated from the Bay Area to Salem, OR. in the mid 70's. Determined to keep her freak flag flying, she quickly set her sights on Portland and immersed herself in the burgeoning punk rock / new wave scene. The conversation is a wealth of Portland punk / underground history. We learn about the long gone venues, people and bands that made this place the "Keep Portland Weird" city of today. Even the most dedicated scholars of PDX punk will likely be surprised to learn that Jackie's first band was called Gumby Anti-Christ and featured a teenage Jerry A. of Poison Idea! Enjoy this conversation. Happy Solstice! SMEGMA/Tenses WEBSITE Jackie's INSTA Oregon Painting Society TM POD PATREON Music: SMEGMA: 'One Moment' 'Live at Earth Tavern 7/22/1979' TM POD theme by Jason --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jason-traeger/support

In this episode we invite Holly George-Warren — beamed in from upstate New York — to tell us about her long and distinguished career as a journalist, author and editor.Holly revisits her North Carolina childhood and early infatuation with pop radio, then talks about her move to New York City in the early '80s, her East Village bands Clambake and Das Furlines, and her long tenure at Rolling Stone Press. Barney, Mark and Jasper ask her about the latest of her many books — her acclaimed 2019 biography of Janis Joplin — and tie this in with two clips from a 1984 audio interview with Peter Albin of Big Brother & the Holding Company, including his account of Joplin's impact on the band in 1966.Conversation turns to the passing of Michael Nesmith, the Monkee who walked away from pop fame to commence life as an eccentric country singer-songwriter. We hear a clip of the lugubrious Texan speaking about the Monkees in 1974, then discuss "America's Beatles" [sic] and Nesmith's own singular musical legacy.Mark and Jasper talk us out with their reflections on new library pieces about John Peel (1969), the Cockettes (1971), Daft Punk (1997) and artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (2000).Many thanks to special guest Holly George-Warren; please visit her website hollygeorgewarren.com for details about her books, including Janis: Her Life and Music.Pieces discussed: Janis Joplin, Peter Albin audio, The Monkees, Michael Nesmith, Mike Nesmith audio, Marc Bölan, John Peel, The Cockettes, Ronnie Scott, The Sex Pistols, The Life and Work of Basquiat and Christmas singles.

In this episode we invite Holly George-Warren — beamed in from upstate New York — to tell us about her long and distinguished career as a journalist, author and editor. Holly revisits her North Carolina childhood and early infatuation with pop radio, then talks about her move to New York City in the early '80s, her East Village bands Clambake and Das Furlines, and her long tenure at Rolling Stone Press. Barney, Mark and Jasper ask her about the latest of her many books — her acclaimed 2019 biography of Janis Joplin — and tie this in with two clips from a 1984 audio interview with Peter Albin of Big Brother & the Holding Company, including his account of Joplin's impact on the band in 1966. Conversation turns to the passing of Michael Nesmith, the Monkee who walked away from pop fame to commence life as an eccentric country singer-songwriter. We hear a clip of the lugubrious Texan speaking about the Monkees in 1974, then discuss "America's Beatles" [sic] and Nesmith's own singular musical legacy. Mark and Jasper talk us out with their reflections on new library pieces about John Peel (1969), the Cockettes (1971), Daft Punk (1997) and artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (2000). Many thanks to special guest Holly George-Warren; please visit her website hollygeorgewarren.com for details about her books, including Janis: Her Life and Music. Pieces discussed: Janis Joplin, Peter Albin audio, The Monkees, Michael Nesmith, Mike Nesmith audio, Marc Bölan, John Peel, The Cockettes, Ronnie Scott, The Sex Pistols, The Life and Work of Basquiat and Christmas singles.

In this podcast, Kitten picks up where she left off in Part 1. In 1981, she started going to school at SF State. It was her official move to The City. She talks about dorm life, which involved lots of music and stereo wars. She kept going to see live shows, something she began doing as a teenager when she lived in the East Bay. Kitten catalogs bands she was in during her time in college, including one with someone who became a pretty infamous rocker. After college, Kitten floated a bit. She looks back on a comparatively inexpensive city. She lived on Ninth Avenue in the Sunset and worked at Esprit as a phone operator until the young company shut down that department. Then she started working in vintage clothing and met many artists through that. After a short time working in the world of "sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll" at a club in South of Market, she got a job on Divisadero at a place called The Thirdhand Store, where she stayed for 17 years. Members of The Cockettes worked there and bought stuff from the store. Kitten lived above the store. "Kitten on the Keys" was born in the late-90s inspired by her time working at The Thirdhand Store. The shop played vintage music and she became enamored with tunes from the 1920s. A neighbor gave her some vintage sheet music, and everything aligned. We chat about how Kitten has navigated the pandemic, which for a long time, meant no live performances. And we end the podcast with her response to the idea of what it means to still be here in San Francisco. If you missed Part 1, definitely go back and check that out to hear all about Kitten's parents and her early life. Follow Kitten on Twitter, Instagram, or her website, and book her for your next event! She'll be playing at The Rite Spot next Tuesday, Dec. 14. We recorded this podcast at Royal Cuckoo Market in the Mission District in December 2021. Photography by Michelle Kilfeather

InterPride is proud to present our fourth podcast episode of InterPod, focused on Trans Rights Are Human Rights. The LGBTQIA+ community has come a long way in the fight for acceptance. Our voices matter and will be heard. As we honor Transgender Awareness Month, we bring stories from activists, leaders, and Pride organizers around the world. Speakers: Aria Sa'id, executive director of the Transgender Cultural District. Donna Personna, artist, Transgender activist, member of the Cockettes. Monica Roberts, founder/editor of Transgriot, Transgender rights activist. Toni Newman, interim executive director of the Black AIDS Institute. Tamara Adrian, the first transgender National Assembly member in Venezuela. Piano, Transgender activist from Thailand, Miss LGBT 2020 Thailand. Jannat Ali, Region 18 Representative | Global Advisory Council Rep. | Human Rights and Diversity Committee Co-Chair Music: John Rothermel and Peter Mintun “Ain't Misbehavin” Sylvester and Peter Mintun “Stormy Weather” Sylvester and Peter Mintun “Happy Days are Here Again” Tookta Barbie Topline (ตุ๊กตา บาร์บี้) : “Two Minutes” สองนาทีก็มีแฮง Want to hear new episodes monthly? Don't forget to subscribe to our newsletter! Make sure to follow us on social media to stay in the know about future guests, episodes, and how you can make a difference in the fight for LGBTQIA+ equality. Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | LinkedIn | YouTube | Medium InterPride Empowers Pride Organizations Worldwide!

In collaboration with LGBTQ+ Programs and Womxn's History Month, this special episode features guest host Gray Strain, Assistant Director for Diversity and Belonging at BGSU, and Dr. Lady J, who was keynote speaker of the 2021 Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Research Symposium at BGSU. The pair discuss drag scholarship, community activism, the untold history of the artform, and the integral role transgender and cisgender women have played as performers since drag's inception.  Announcer :From Bowling Green State University and the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society, this is BG ideas.Musical Intro:I'm going to show you this with a wonderful experiment. Gray:Welcome to the BG Ideas podcast, a collaboration between the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society and the School of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University. My name is Gray Strain, Assistant Director for Diversity and Belonging at BGSU. And I'm happy to be guest hosting a special episode today in collaboration with LGBTQ+ programs and Women's History Month. Thank you to Dr. Jolie Sheffer of ICS for allowing us to guest host this episode. We appreciate the opportunity for collaboration. This special episode of the BG Ideas podcast is being recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic. That means we're not in studio, but instead are talking via Zoom and phone. Our sound quality will be different as a result, but we want to continue to share with our listeners some of the amazing work being done on and around our campus. We at ICS and LGBTQ+ programs think it's important to celebrate great ideas. As always the opinions expressed on this podcast are those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily represent those of BGSU or its employees.Gray :Today, I am thrilled to be speaking with Dr. Lady J the Director of Programming, Education and Outreach for Studio West 117 in Cleveland, Ohio. The official drag historian for the Austin International Drag Festival, the creator and host of the podcast Untucking the Past and the keynote speaker for the 2021 Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies Research Symposium here at BGSU. A pillar of the Cleveland LGBTQIA+ community, she represents the city on the national drag scene and leads locally through activism, entertainment, and education. Her dissertation from RuPaul to the Love Ball: The Mainstreaming of Drag in the 1990s, has been downloaded over 3,800 times. And her work as a historian has been featured everywhere from vice.com to the journal of the American Musicological Society.Gray: Dr. Lady J joins me today to discuss their work in the field of drag history, the politics and inclusion of women, both transgender and cisgender in drag communities and how she serves diverse LGBTQ+ populations today in the Cleveland area. So thank you so much for joining me, Lady J. Before we dive into the fascinating topic of drag history, I do want to touch on the work that you're doing with Studio West 117. Could you tell me a little bit about your role and the vision for Studio West?Dr. Lady J:So thank you first of all, so much for having me, Gray. I'm really excited to be here, and I'm really excited about the upcoming events that we're going to be doing together for Bowling Green. So Studio West 117 is an LGBTQ hub for the Northeast Ohio area and specifically Cleveland and Lakewood, especially. We're going to be doing everything from supporting LGBTQ+ local businesses, especially starting with BIPOC businesses first. We're working with our business tenants to provide ways of entry that are low barrier of entry. Everything from working on subsidies for businesses to working on a podcast and broadcast studio. We're going to have a makers space, an artist's co-op, a coffee co-op. So there'll be a lot of different opportunities for people to break into kind of gig based jobs that may require a lot of equipment on the front end and to use high end equipment for a really reasonable price that is affordable to the average trans person.Dr. Lady J:And that's really important to me because one of the ways that I was able to survive for a while after grad school was doing landscaping and handyman work for people that would lend me their tools. I knew these trades, but I didn't really know any way that I could afford a chainsaw and like 20 different pieces of equipment for landscaping. And a thousand different things for sanding stairs and painting and dah, dah, dah, dah. So this is a way we can start with that. On top of that, we're going to have five different venues, everything from the chamber and the symposium, which are smaller kind of bar sized venues up through the 1200 seat theater, somewhere between 800 and 1200 seat theater in the fantasy theater.Dr. Lady J:We're going to have the field house, which is going to have a gymnasium. It's going to have an LGBTQ youth sports league. We're going to have a restaurant run by Juan Vergara. That is a Colombian restaurant. That's going to be managed by two different LGBTQ folks. We're going to have the first rooftop patio in Lakewood. It's going to be 2,500 square feet. We're going to have an outdoor area between the two buildings so we can do... You could start with a brunch in the field house, go through a queer flea market in the alley into a children's theater show on Sunday afternoon, into a drag show that evening or a burlesque show that night. Really a place where you can spend all day and a place for everybody to feel safe and welcome. And it's primarily a place that is first and foremost for the LGBTQ+ community, and also very welcoming to allies. But this is really the queer's community's space first.Dr. Lady J:And I really love that we're working to really make sure that Cleveland is a majority black city, and in most of the businesses and organizations I've been a part of in my time here, whether it's been activism or education, or just working like an hourly job you don't often see Black management, you don't often see Black leadership. And it's because those opportunities have been denied. This is one of the most red lined cities in the country, racism is tremendous here. And I grew up going to Atlanta, going to a place where you saw Black artists, you saw lack managers, you saw Black leadership. And I'm really excited that like with this job, I've been able to form a 5% hiring committee that is 60% trans and non-binary, I think it's 80% people of color, especially heavy right now, it's 80% Black.Dr. Lady J:And I think that's really important because most young Black folks who are a huge portion of the population here are interviewing with people who do not look like them, who do not understand what they're going through. And we're thinking really about the multi-layered issues that affect people to make sure that the hiring doesn't look inclusive just at the level of baristas and bartenders, but at the level of management, leadership, all of those things. And that's one of the things that honestly is the reason I signed on with this project. Because my first questions were things like this that are huge often tend to just go with the easiest thing, which is to pick the oldest, whitest, people who have the most typical resume to create a very standard thing. And that's what I love about every time we bring in more people is for once I'm able to say, "Let's take this perspective or this problem that you are having as community member. And let's fold this into the structure. Let's think about this on the front end." Dr. Lady J:And during COVID, we've had a lot of extra time to really think about those things, to really make sure that everyone feels like they are included. And that also comes down to people with disabilities. We're going to be one of the only places around, if not the only place in this area that has a fully accessible stages, fully accessible dressing rooms. And this was something that when I started to book one of my drag kids, who's a queer puppeteer, a young guy who uses a wheelchair it was impossible just getting him in a ground floor bar, because a lot of them have a lip that goes up or a step that goes down. We tried getting in the back door of this one place. We realized the backdoor has a step down.Dr. Lady J:And even if he came into the kitchen, which we were going to try, the galley entry from behind the bar is not big enough for a wide chair like his. So luckily Nate is able to walk some. So we were able to get him into the bar, but once I started booking him, it was a real eye-opener as far as like, we need to make sure that these things are taken care of in this venue. And the exciting thing is we've been in contact with a festival that's specifically for performers with disabilities. And we are one of the first places or the first place that they've been able to bring this to Cleveland, which they wanted to do for a long time, that we'll be able to actually accommodate not just on the audience level, but on the stage level. And that'll be everywhere from the chamber and the symposium and the fantasy dance club up through the fantasy theater, the field house, all of it.Dr. Lady J:So like that's a big part of what I think is really important. And there's about nine million other things I could talk about, but what we really want when you look at the programming for this whole place is I want it to look like it's a nightly takeover of space by different queer folks. So when you look at the schedule, it looks like nobody owns the club. That's one of my most important things is trying to make it feel like there's not a centralized thing there. So yeah, I think that's a pretty good, short, brief overview of Studio West.Gray :I mean, that's fantastic. It's this way that you're creating this LGBTQ+ hub. It's so much more than just the hub itself, right? It's all of the people behind it. And I really appreciate the way that you talked about centering BIPOC communities, so Black, Indigenous and people of color in the process. So you've talked a little bit about this, but we of course know that due to COVID, face to face interaction and truly all interaction has been limited the majority of last year into this year. And of course, a lot of drag and LGBTQ+ community building is about having those physical spaces that you've talked about. So how has this shifted the way that Studio West does their work and how you build and maintain community?Dr. Lady J:Yeah, I think that's a great question. It was really interesting because when I came onto the project, initially just as a temporary thing to see like how is this going to work and all that, we were totally thinking about like doing big events in June. We were starting to plan out our Pride events and book that out. And I'd already started booking people. And then all of a sudden everything gets locked down, COVID comes along. And the plus side of it is, it's given us a lot of time to really do those inclusivity elements, to really have those conversations. To have a five-hour long conversation between me and community members. And the other thing that's really interesting is because we have this space we're able to do like virtual events. So we just did our very first virtual event in December. It was called Aqueerium. Dr. Lady J:And so we wanted to account for COVID. So what we were originally going to do was we were going to have some in-person, about four tables, maybe 16 people of four each with dividers. And we built the stage so the whole entire front of the stage is covered by plexiglass now. So I wanted to basically create an aquarium that we could perform in kind of bringing in the idea of like, how do we incorporate what's happening in a fun way? And so our whole first show was all underwater theme, sea themed. We had a giant clamshell that our creative and technical director, Dan Housman built along with all of these kinds of set props. We had stalactites that looked like coral that he had made out of insulation foam. We really had an amazing cast. And that's what we're going to be planning to do for the rest of this year right now. We may have some in-person events that don't look like a show that involve a lot of distance, and that are actually to-go events that we'll be releasing maybe later in the year.Dr. Lady J:What we're planning on right now, basically every show we do for the rest of this year right now is planning to be all digital. So we're going to be prerecording the performers one by one so we can edit. And like, that's the great thing is it also allows us that yes, performers can come in and just use the space to record that. But also if people want to, we can do things where we edit more stuff, we can make things more like a music video. And that's kind of what we're working towards in the second show that we're going to be announcing that I'm calling Icebox. So this time we're using the front of the plexiglass again as an ice theme. And that's kind of what we're going to be doing as we go forward, is kind of keep trying to reinvent this until we find a way towards live stuff. And we're hoping that we might be able to do live socially distance stuff maybe in January of next year and maybe some this year. But, it's really going to vary on what we find out in the next few months.Gray: Yeah. I think one thing that's really great about our community, especially as I think there's an instinct to pivot. So really to just adapt. And not to quote Tim Gunn, but, "To make it work," right in the moment and do what needs to be done. So I'm going to take a quick break right now, and then we'll come back and chat a little bit more about your research and the work you do with drag history. Thanks so much for listening to BG Ideas podcast. We'll be right back.Announcer :If you are passionate about BiG Ideas consider sponsoring this program. To have your name or organization mentioned here, please contact us at ics@bgsu.edu.Gray :Hello and welcome back to the BG ideas podcast. Today we're talking to Dr. Lady J about her work as a drag historian and educator. So Lady J, as a scholar of drag and gender myself, I honestly can't hold us back any longer. Let's jump into some drag. So first could you provide, and I appreciate this is a difficult question, a working definition of drag, as you understand it for our listeners?Dr. Lady J: Okay. So yeah, this is a question that I get a lot and it is one that I find really difficult. It's one that I was asked a lot by my advisor and my whole team on my dissertation to really try to define more. Really what I think drag boils down to is its historical narrative, because there's a lot of cross dressing and crossing the gender binary that doesn't really fit in with the timeline of drag, that stands on its own as another part of another tradition. And I think that's one of the things that gets collapsed a lot in the histories is things that are theatrical cross dressing that aren't actually like drag. They're not informed by queerness. Like movies like Some Like It Hot where people have to get into drag for a reason that is motivated by the plot of the story, rather than, "I like drag. This is part of my personhood and my artistry."Dr. Lady J:But really, I would say drag is number one, an art form in the same way that sculpting or painting or any of those things are, or theater or music. It is its own artistic discipline that deserves its own space in that way. But it has to do with playing with gender and characters more importantly. But I think for me, straight people can do drag and that can be part of the tradition. But straight people, cross dressing in movies and things like that often comes from a really different place. And I think that drag at its core is inherently queer. I think that it really comes from a place of transness before there was a word for transness. The history reflects that. With cases like Boulton and Park which you can Google very easily.Dr. Lady J:That's a case of two people that both lived as women on the stage and off the stage who were assigned male at birth. They were carted in front of a judge. They were stripped nude as part of this. And one of them actually ended up performing later on with another person who lived their life as a man who was assigned female at birth, who had also had a career on the stage as a man. And who was married to a woman. And for me, that looks, even though we can't use the word trans because that wasn't indicative of the times. But what I see in that moment is two trans people, seeing themselves in each other and seeing a way to work together. And most of the people that you see in early drag are people who are gender non-conforming on and off the stage. And I think that there is also a lot of room for discussion about the wibbly wobbly-ness of the term drag and like female impersonation.Dr. Lady J:And there's so much respectability politics that goes into those things. There are many people, if you look at the 90s, especially who would say, especially trans women who would say, "I am not a drag queen, I'm a female impersonator." Because drag queen in their head was a man in a dress. But again, that's because men in dresses were the ones who were controlling that conversation. But yeah, I would say drag is really about queer people creating character personas on stage. And playing with gender is part of that. But the one thing I do want to say that I always think is really important is saying that drag is about crossing the gender binary is like saying that architecture is about making a brick. It's absolutely part of what is necessary to do the other thing. But most of the people I know who are performing drag are not thinking about the gender element the most. They're thinking about character creation. They're thinking about storytelling. They're thinking about a song that they're doing, the narrative dance styles. That's really what drag is, it's a queer performance genre.Gray :Well I really hope that we have some architecture majors tuning in to appreciate that metaphor. So, you talked already a little bit about this, but thinking of drag as a performance of gender, but also character. So what does drag have to say about identity as a whole or thinking about gender in relationship to other categories of identity?Dr. Lady J:Oh, that's a really, really tough one. What does drag have to say about identity as a whole? For me, I think it's about how different people experience it. Like I have a very hard time saying drag does things or drag is things because drag is so individual and it changes a lot.Like even when we think about female impersonation is what most people think of when they think of drag. And we think of like alternative drag that's bearded drag, or cis women doing drag as something that's brand new. All those things have been present at a minimum. And I guarantee you they're there before. I just haven't or can't think of them off the top of my head, but at a minimum, like cis women been doing drag since the 60s, bearded queens have existed since the 60s, like all of those things have existed since the 1960s, we had a counter-cultural movement that happened in drag in the same way that it happened in the rest of the world, in every other art form.Dr. Lady J:And it fully changed our art form. And so I think what drag has to say about identity very much has to do with the individual. So like for some trans women, for instance, some trans women get in drag and they feel more fully themselves. They feel confirmed by the drag and they want to be a heightened version of themselves on stage. For me as a non-binary trans woman, I did like pretty girl drag for like the first five years. I think a lot of people might question the first two or three years. Not what I'd call pretty. But like I was doing a femme face. And what I found was that once I saw myself as a trans woman in that face, I was like, "Well, this isn't what I wanted. I came here to do something that was about building a creation. That's an insane over the top heroic version of myself." Dr. Lady J:And so, that's why like Lady J the character my eyes are as big as my forehead. My mouth is huge because it's about... My character for me, drag is about becoming intimidating or becoming a big, giant ball of light that people can see themselves in. So I think it just really varies based on person to person and what you're trying to... It's the same thing as art it's like saying, what does art have to do with identity? Well, it's going to have a lot to do with the genre and the person and the aesthetic that they're going for and what their goals are.Gray :Absolutely. And I really encourage folks if they haven't already seen Lady J's character to look you up on Instagram. It's the only Lady J, correct?Dr. Lady J:Yeah.Gray :Yes. Because your makeup, your persona is absolutely fantastic. So when folks hear drag, and you've already started to break this down, many people might only make the connection to RuPaul or RuPaul's drag race or other dominant representations of "drag." so as a drag historian, what do you think gets missed in our popular understanding of the timeline of drag we have in the US? Dr. Lady J:The timeline is, I think number one, the first thing would be that the timeline generally says, "The history is about people who crossed from male to female, female to male." And that's not really been the case for a lot of history. And I think the timeline also makes it seem like trans women are something new to drag when that's not been the case. A lot of drag history's timeline has unfortunately been about respectability politics. And it's been about cis men's perspectives. Even the book that I cite in my dissertation as being foundational to my understanding of drag history, which was Laurence Senelick's The Changing Room, is virulently transphobic. It was really hard reading where alot of people would say, when they talk about the metaphorical magic of drag, many people try to say that being a trans woman and having any kind of hormonal adjustment or any kind of surgery, somehow alters what you're doing.Dr. Lady J:And I just don't really ever understand how that makes any sense. Also, because as long as there've been trans women getting pump in their face, there've been cis men in the same industry getting pump in their face. And frankly, I've had some very intense toe-to-toe screaming matches with some of my very closest friends who have had this fight with me about the place of trans women in drag. Where I had to say to this person, and it was really a hateful moment on my part, but it came out of this whole discussion about trans women's place in drag, and this person saying that trans women deserve have a different place. They're a totally separate thing. And I was like, "You can't sit here and tell me that you think that trans women and drag is somehow juicing." And I poked this person's face. And I said, "When are your lip looks like that, don't sit here and act like it's not acceptable for us to get work done when you get work done. When the same pageants who disallow trans women allow silicone injections above the neck line." Dr. Lady J:So there's a lot of these weird things that have come up. And the other thing I would say is people talk about drag as if it's always transgressive. I think that's one of the biggest, biggest lies out there. Drag absolutely often, often, often reifies and stands up the gender binary. It says it is about, "I'm a man who can also be a woman." And then the version of womanhood that's presented is absolutely like a stereotype. Now that doesn't mean that I think that high glamour drag is inherently misogynist. I don't, but I do think... And I don't think men doing drag is inherently misogynist but I do think that many people think "I am portraying a woman, so I'm paying homage."Dr. Lady J:When in fact, if you're creating a sarcastic kind of hateful version of this person, are you paying homage or are you actually just creating a misogynist tirade against what you think women are? I think there is much space for all of that. And that's kind of the thing that I want people to understand about drag is that our discussion should be the same as art. We don't call art misogynist because there's misogynist art. We don't say that all art is not misogynist because there's non-misogynist art. We take it on a case by case aesthetic by aesthetic, genre by genre basis. And that's what drag deserves.Gray :Thank you. So thinking about the role of women in drag that you touched on a bit going back to the 60s, what does it mean for you to be a woman and taking that category broadly to include transgender and cisgender women who performs in drag? Dr. Lady J:For me, it's what has helped me find my community. It's what helped me find my sisters, my partner, my best friends, the people who understand me most understand that I am most me not now, but when I'm fully Lady J.Like it was astonishing to me how different it was for the developers and the other people I work with at Studio West, who had met me in drag once when we went to New York. But it was 5:00 AM when I was getting ready that day, I was super nervous. I didn't know them very well. When we did our first show, they were like, "Oh my God, you're a totally different person." And I was like, "Yeah, because you know what happens when I get in drag? Even with all this crazy look on my dysphoria goes away. I'm not looking at a 35 year old person who has not gone on a hormone therapy yet, and who wishes they'd done it a lot sooner."Dr. Lady J:I see what I want to be. I see this heroic trans goddess of rock and roll. This KISS-like Wendy O Williams, not to be confused with Wendy Williams, like character. I always wanted to be covered in armor with a sword or something. I want to see myself as a protector because I grew up in a house where my mother was abused violently by my father. And I'm positive that's why Lady J exists. That's why I do what I do is because most of my career has been about creating someone that someone like that could never touch. And creating someone that could have saved my mom in that situation. That could have saved all of us little kids from having to deal with all of that.Dr. Lady J:That's a lot of what Lady J is, is me trying to provide people with some semblance of, "There's a future, there's hope there's promise." And also if you feel angry, like I'm going to get angry for you here on stage. I'm going to smash things. I did a number of last year where I was Lorena Bobbitt, and I was chopping an eggplant with a freshly purchased sharp butcher knife into the audience. If you want to see some stuff that is anti-misogynist, I'll give it to you because a lot of my drag is about my anger about those things. It's about processing out the pain and nonsense that I have seen and had inflicted upon me. I'm a three time sexual assault survivor. A lot of that anger goes into Lady J and that's how I get it out. And that's what's fun. And that's the hard part about COVID is like, I'm not on a stage in front of an audience, like doing all of that all the time. And maintaining sanity is harder without that.Gray :I really appreciate that. I think when we have that conversation about what drag is, we started initially in thinking that some people believe only cis men doing this kind of across gender performance, I think we miss out on all the, all the personality, all of our experiences that get put into our art form. So I really appreciate you being open about that. So I'm going to end with what I know is another difficult question. I know I've been full of them today, but who is, if you could just pick out one woman in drag's history that you think everybody should know about should go learn about right now?Dr. Lady J:That's really tough. I would say there's like maybe three that I think of a lot. One of them I would say is the person that like, if you don't know a lot about drag history, go look up Crystal LaBeija. Crystal LaBeija is the person who... Look up the movie, The Queen, and look at the argument that she has with Mother Flawless Sabrina. What you will see there is a world in which Black queens had been denied real advancement, had been denied bigger money, had been denied bigger opportunities. And this queen took this moment on film and took an enormous risk that could have made her look terrible. That could have ruined everything for her by saying, "You know what? I don't care that this documentary is here. And in fact, I think it's probably good that this documentary is here and I'm going to confront this pageant system about its racist practices and about the fact that I should have been the winner. And I was the rightful winner."Dr. Lady J:And sadly what a lot of people will see in that is just an angry Black woman. All they'll see is that. And they'll just be like, "Well, I don't understand why she's like that. What is she so mad about? Why does she think she deserved to win?" The reality is this was the only Black queen who had ever won Queen of Manhattan, which was like one of the biggest things in the world back then, at that time, for her. And so she was winning pageants that only white pageant girls were winning. And that's one of the things that we, in addition to saying, drag is not misogynist is a mythology. The other mythology is that drag is not racist. The drag world has been very racist in the past, but what you saw back in the day was that Black queens just did not... You were expected to lighten up and whiten up your skin and perform as white celebrities for the most part or light-skinned celebrities.Dr. Lady J:And then you were still going to lose no matter how well you did. Because they wanted your audience, they wanted you to participate. They wanted you to bring your people who would pay the tab, but they didn't want to allow you anything real. They didn't want to allow any of that. And so when you watch her confront Mother Flawless and tell her, "Yeah, I am showing my color, and I have a right to show my color." The entirety of this separate world of Black competition comes about because of this moment of just complete, "I'm done with this, I'm frustrated with this. And I will not do this anymore. I will not be this for you." And so being able to move on with that, I think she's one of the most important people.Dr. Lady J:And aside from her, I would say if you know a lot about drag history, you already know about her, look up Lady Chablis, you'll find out a ton of things. She was a trans woman. She never used the word drag queen and didn't like it. But I would still say she's part of the history because that's the culture she was a part of. And she did own like 12 pageant titles.Gray :Awesome. And you said there was a third as well, in your top three?Dr. Lady J:Oh, I forgot what the other one was now. The other one, I know one of the other ones I was going to say was to look up the women who were part of The Cockettes. Just look up The Cockettes and see that there was a troop of cis women, trans people, Black people, white people, babies, adults, the whole gamut.Dr. Lady J:And that was the 60s. And again, everybody thinks they're reinventing the wheel now. And it's because we have no awareness of our own history. It's like, as if we were trying to create art and all artists were trying to create art without having any idea that Cubism existed before, or that Impressionism existed before or any of these things. That's kind of the world we exist in. And that's a lot of why I try to do so much drag education, not just because we deserve to know our own history, but because it helps us get better as artists to not just keep repeating the same stuff.Gray :Awesome. Thank you. Yeah. I really think that Crystal LaBeija is a wonderful figure to highlight. And The Queen is a very interesting documentary. If a little dated, still, I think, worth a watch if only for Crystal's scene at the end.Dr. Lady J:I think it's important for people to see how bland some of the white drag scene was. Like, that's important. It's important for you to see the people that were getting somewhere despite not really doing much. Because that speaks volumes about the history itself.Gray :I think we definitely all have a lot of work to do in kind of uncovering the real, or perhaps the realer history of drag. So Dr. Lady J, I want to thank you so much for taking the time to chat about the work that you do. This has been a fantastic conversation that I think could be twice or three times the length. You have so many wonderful things to say. And I'm so glad that we were able to bring you to campus to share your keynote with us for the Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies Research Symposium. So I do want to give credit to our wonderful producers for this podcast. Chris Cavera and Marco Mendoza. Marco deserves extra thanks for sound editing in these very challenging conditions. We really appreciate you, Marco. Want to give a special thank you to the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society, and to Dr. Jolie Sheffer for allowing us to host this episode.Gray :Be sure to like, and subscribe to the BG ideas podcast, wherever you listen. And of course, follow LGBTQ+ programs on Facebook, /BGSULGBTQRC, and on Instagram @BGSU_LGBTQ. And there you can stay up to date and all of our programming and our events. But above all else, stay safe. And thanks for listening.

Paco and George talk about some recent docsTHE SPARKS BROTHERS - (Edgar Wright, 2021) In Theaters / PurchaseTHE DONUT KING (Alice Gu, 2020) HuluSUMMER OF SOUL (Questlove, 2021) Hulu THE COCKETTES (Bill Weber & David Weissman, 2002) Documentary Plus Controversy around Summer of Soul footage We are also super excited about the upcoming Val Kilmer doc! George found footage of him at Pehrspace.Follow us on:Twitter: @supdocpodcastInstagram: @supdocpodcastFacebook: @supdocpodcastsign up for our mailing listAnd you can show your support to Sup Doc by donating on Patreon.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Even though folks have been crossdressing for entertainment since the dawn of time, the rise of the modern drag queen can be traced back to a some relatively recent events and a few key artists.While American society in the 1960s was opening up to the many possibilities offered by the sexual revolution, a lot of drag artists took the art of female impersonation very seriously, and didn't stray too far from a feminine ideal. It was folks on the fringe like Divine, Sylvester, the Cockettes, Holly Woodlawn and David Bowie who shaped drag into a multi-faceted art form we see today.Today, queer educator, doctor of drag Lady J Martinez O'Neal Davenport joins us to take a look at the rise of the modern drag queen, from Holly Woodlawn and the Warhol Superstars to David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust persona to RuPaul who made her-story by being the first drag queen to get signed by a major record label.

Hats off to Larry, because he is giving us a monster of an episode! Join Damian as he sits down with Lookout Records, Lookout zine & The Lookouts band impresario: LARRY LIVERMORE!!! From answering John Lennon's calls at White Panther headquarters, to Lookout's accidental funding, to how the weed/acid divide led to strife in the scene, to the hippies in SF finding punk: THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!  Also, don't miss Larry's two fantastic books as well as a ton of his music on Don Giovanni Records now!!!! Also Touched On: Showing up to talk about Cannabis... not Sasquatch  Trying to burn down your university living in the Cockettes' old apartment the origins of Lookout records Motown Records The EpiFat Sound VS. The Lookout Sound The start of Very Small records Getting to know Sons Of Ishmael Staying up all night talking about about acid with Ray Cappo at the MRR house  The Gilman Geeks vs. Slapshot Neurosis Following the Weakerthans around like they were the Grateful Dead Seeing the MC5 when they were a mod band “We play Avon Rock” Destroy All Monsters Quitting the White Panthers Rock and Roll Revolutionaries: Tim Yo and Jon Sinclair  pothead/ acidhead divide Iggy Pop tearing up your Cream submission Hanging with Don Vinyl taking shitty LSD and listening to bad Jefferson Starship & SO MUCH MORE!!!BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS

“Bisogna sempre essere se stessi, a ogni costo. È la forma più alta di moralità.” Questa frase di Candy Darling, icona transgender della Factory di Andy Warhol, morta a soli 29 anni, è la chiave che ci aiuta a comprendere l'arte creata nel pieno dell'esplosione dell'Aids, anni eccezionali e tormentati, anni in cui essere omosessuale voleva dire essere considerato un untore. In questa puntata, Costantino e Francesco raccontano la vita e le opere di artisti che hanno rivendicato, a costo della propria vita, la libertà di essere se stessi. Da Jack Smith a Robert Mapplethorpe, da Derek Jarman a Félix González-Torres.In questa puntata si parla di Candy Darling, Jack Smith, Cindy Sherman, John Waters, David Lynch, Maria Montez, Jonas Mekas, Robert Mapplethorpe, Antonio Canova, Dracula, Patti Smith, Sam Wagstaff, Mick Jagger, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michel Foucault, Peter Hujar, Richard Avedon, Susan Sontag, William Burroughs, Sylvester, The Cockettes, David Wojnarowicz, Félix González-Torres, Ross Laycock, General Idea (Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal, AA Bronson), Tom Cruise, Robert Indiana, Caspar David Friedrich, Keith Haring, Elio Fiorucci, Salvatore Ala, Vincent van Gogh, Hans Haacke, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Paul Morrissey, Paul Thek, Rudi Fuchs, Pontus Hultén, Harald Szeemann, Derek Jarman, Ken Russell, Sex Pistol, Thorbbing Gristle, The Smiths, Jack Birkett (Orlando), Caravaggio, Tilda Swinton, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Friedrich Nietzche, Diamanda Galás e Phillip-Dimitri Galás.

This episode will be known only as the originator of the Rough Fuck Me Daddy Bouquet. And what more reason do you need to listen? In this episode: News- 1:29 || Main Topic (Florists)- 12:03 || Gayest & Straightest- 1:04:10 On Monday's bonus segment, Dan shares floral-inspired gay history about Hibiscus and The Cockettes. Bonus content at www.patreon.com/gayishpodcast.

Happy Birthday to writer and performer Dolores Deluce, who used to live with Divine, the drag queen from John Water's films and performed often with the San Francisco Cockettes. {Best of Feast of Fun, originally posted as FOF #1875 - Confessions of a Counter Culture Diva - 10.08.13}In the 1960s, Dolores Deluce was rejected by her family for giving birth to a biracial child, only to be embraced by a different kind of family.Her new family included Divine, the Cockettes, assorted Venice Beach bad boys, and her many loving gay “husbands.” Along the way she met many freaky celebrities like John Waters, Edith Massey, Rip Taylor and Joan Rivers, and was even crowned “Miss Alternative L.A.”Our guest today, Delores Deluce, was one of the few women to perform with the Cockettes, the highly influential theater group of hippie drag queens in San Francisco of the early 70s.A five-foot diva in six-inch heels, Dolores slept with many a gay man in the Bay Area during the free love era, mostly because they were all really, really high. Surprisingly, she's lived to tell her story in her memoir: My Life, A Four Letter Word: Confessions of a Counter Culture Diva.Listen as Dolores talks about her friendships and run-ins with Divine, John Water's colorful cast of characters and watching friends of hers like disco superstar Sylvester die from AIDS.• Featured Book:Delores Deluce - My Life, A Four Letter Word: Confessions of a Counter Culture Diva: https://amzn.to/3nrztdG

The Cockettes with Pam Tent in conversation with David Eastaugh The Cockettes were an avant garde psychedelic hippie theater group founded by Hibiscus(George Edgerly Harris III)[1] in the fall of 1969. The troupe was formed out of a group of hippie artists, men and women, who were living in Kaliflower, one of the many communes in Haight-Ashbury, a neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Hibiscus came to live with them because of their preference for dressing outrageously and proposed the idea of putting their lifestyle on the stage. Their brand of theater was influenced by The Living Theater, John Vaccaro's Play House of the Ridiculous, the films of Jack Smith and the LSD ethos of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters. The troupe performed all original material, staging musicals with original songs. The first year they parodied American musicals and sang show tunes (or original musical comedies in the same vein). They gained an underground cult following that led to mainstream exposure.

Bill speaks actress and singer Mink Stole about her life and career. Topics include the rehearsal process on John Waters movies, Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable show, taking friends from The Cockettes to see PINK FLAMINGOS (and their reactions), her “Think Mink” advice column, LOST HIGHWAY, Peaches Christ, learning new skills in public, Prescott Townsend, Peggy Gravel’s opening rant in DESPERATE LIVING, the pleasures of voting in person, THE BROWNIE STORY, Dreamland fashions and what color shoes she wore the day after Labor Day. Watch Mink Stole as Peggy Gravel in the opening to DESPERATE LIVING https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc3QsZHu5SI Follow the Mink Stole fan page for all the latest news and event details: https://www.facebook.com/minkstolefans Listen to Do Re MiNK by Mink Stole And Her Wonderful Band: https://theminkstole.bandcamp.com/album/do-re-mink-2 Buy MULTIPLE MANIACS, FEMALE TROUBLE and POLYSTER from The Criterion Collection: https://www.criterion.com/shop/browse?director=waters-john Read Gerald Peary’s interviews with Mink Stole, John Waters, and other Dreamlanders discussing their Provincetown experiences in the 1960s: http://www.geraldpeary.com/interviews/wxyz/waters-p-town.html   Read Chloé Griffin’s  Edgewise: A Picture of Cookie Mueller: https://www.amazon.com/Edgewise-Picture-Mueller-Chloé-Griffin/dp/3942214202 Read the Wikipedia on Dreamlanders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamlanders

Friday, August 16, 1974, was a hot summer day in New York City…it was 31 degrees, but the humidity made it feel a lot hotter…and if you were down in the Bowery amidst all the concrete, it was hotter still...and it smelled… This part of the city was, to be honest, rather uncivilized…it was a slum…lots of garbage, broken windows, abandoned buildings, drug addicts and homeless people…but there were also businesses and places to hang out—like a dive bar at 315 Bowery at Bleeker called CBGB… Even though it was a Friday night, there was almost no one in the bar…there was the owner, the owner’s dog, two people from a transvestite band from San Francisco called The Cockettes, the manager of another band called television and an artist from the neighhourhood who had moved up from Chihuahua, Mexico, and a scenester named Leggs McNeil …that’s it… And sometime around 9:00, four guys in leather jackets, t-shirts, torn jeans and converse high-tops got up on the tiny stage… “They counted off this song,” he remembers, “and it was just this wall of noise…they looked so striking…these guys were not hippies…this was something completely new”… Fifteen minutes after their set started, it was over…they had blown through all their songs—and had also found time to fight about which song was next and to struggle with broken guitar strings…it scared the crap out of the owner’s dog… When it was over, the owner said to the band “nobody’s gonna like you, but I’ll have you back”… And he did...the band came back the following night…and again…and again….and again…by the end of 1974, the group had played cbgb a total of 74 times… But back to August 16th…that was the night music began to change forever…you’d never have guessed it, but when the bass player counted in that first song, it was the equivalent of “let there be light”… See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution is a 2020 American documentary film, directed and produced by Nicole Newnham and James LeBrecht. Barack and Michelle Obama serve as executive producers under their Higher Ground Productions banner."In the early 1970s, teenagers with disabilities faced a future shaped by isolation, discrimination and institutionalization. Camp Jened, a ramshackle camp “for the handicapped” (a term no longer used) in the Catskills, exploded those confines. Jened was their freewheeling Utopia, a place with summertime sports, smoking and make-out sessions awaiting everyone, and campers experienced liberation and full inclusion as human beings. Their bonds endured as many migrated West to Berkeley, California — a hotbed of activism where friends from Camp Jened realized that disruption, civil disobedience, and political participation could change the future for millions."Nicole Newnham (Writer, Director and Producer) is an Emmy-winning documentary producer and director, four-time Sundance Film Festival alumnus and five-time Emmy-nominee. She has recently produced two virtual reality films with the Australian artist / director Lynette Wallworth: the breakthrough VR work Collisions, which won the 2017 Emmy for Outstanding New Approaches to Documentary, and Awavena, featured at the World Economic Forum in Davos and at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.Jim LeBrecht (Writer, Director and Producer) has over 40 years of experience as a film and theater sound designer and mixer, author, disability rights activist and filmmaker. LeBrecht and BSA’s credits include some notable films. Just some of the titles that have garnered acclaim are The Blood of Yingzhou District, which won the Academy Award for short documentary in 2006, Minding The Gap, Unrest, The Force, The Island President, The Waiting Room, The Kill Team, Daughter From Danang, The Cockettes, We Were Here, and Audrie and Daisy.  https://cripcamp.comTwitter:@JimLeBrecht@NicoleNewnhamhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Heumann

Who are our allies on the outside? Who are our enemies on the inside? •Bonus episodes! Listen to my exclusive series of standalone queer history episodes called Forgotten Fairy Tales on my Patreon. Also, cute buttons! Mugs! Archival research photos! Join me on Patreon at patreon.com/queerserial. This week’s bonus episode features real archival audio from KPFA’s 1958 “The Homosexual In Our Society,” a 1958 radio program featuring Mattachine Society Publications Director Hal Call, Dr. Blanche Baker, attorney Morris Lowenthal (featured in previous episodes), and Dr. Karl Bowman. Next week’s episode is an interview with a founding Radical Faerie!If you’re loving the show, please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts to help new listeners find the show! Thank you for your support. :)Wanna put faces to the names? Follow the show in photos on Instagram and Twitter @queerserial.Teachers, hit me up for transcripts of the episodes! queerserial@gmail.comResources, donations, and the full voice cast for the podcast can be found at queerserial.com.This season is also brought to you in part by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, San Francisco! We love the Sisters.Check out “The Cockettes,” “We Were Here,” and other films by David Weissman at davidweissmanfilms.com. I also recommend the many queer projects by Matt Baume, including “The Sewers of Paris” and “Culture Cruise” (especially his queer Frasier analysis episodes!) at mattbaume.com.Music is by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. Licensed under Creative Commons by attribution 4.0. The original Mattachine Society jester logo and audio clips of Harry Hay are courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Audio clips from The Rejected are licensed by Thirteen Productions and WNET.Thanks for listening! Next week: Episode 6 “Faces Behind the Names”

In honour of Pride Month, Amy had the life-changing pleasure of speaking with founding member of the legendary late 60s psychedelic experimental Drag Theater Troupe The Cockettes. In her career in performance, costuming and wearable art, Fayette has worked with such icons as Any Warhol, John Waters, Divine, Bette Midler and many more. Join us as we talk about communal living, psychedelics, the occult, radical self expression, freedom and Fayette's new book The Cockettes: Acid Drag & Sexual Anarchy, out now! BUY THIS BOOK!!!

An original member of the psychedelic drag performance troupe, The Cockettes, Rumi Missabu spent most of his life lost in obscurity until a long and winding road led him back to the spotlight. Support this podcast

A glimpse into Season 1 of the QueerCore Podcast, hosted by August Bernadicou, a 26-year-old gay historian. We'll hear stories from LGBTQ pioneers and activists including Rumi Missabu, an original member of the Cockettes; Reverend Troy Perry, founder of the MCC, the first queer church in the US; Dr. Donald Kilhefner, co-founder of the Los Angeles LGBTQ Center and many more.  Support this podcast

The Cockettes special with Fayette Hauser in conversation with David Eastaugh The Cockettes were an avant garde psychedelic hippie theater group founded by Hibiscus (George Edgerly Harris III) in the fall of 1969. The troupe was formed out of a group of hippie artists, men and women, who were living in Kaliflower, one of the many communes in Haight-Ashbury, a neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Hibiscus came to live with them because of their preference for dressing outrageously and proposed the idea of putting their lifestyle on the stage. Their brand of theater was influenced by The Living Theater, John Vaccaro's Play House of the Ridiculous, the films of Jack Smith and the LSD ethos of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters. The troupe performed all original material, staging musicals with original songs. The first year they parodied American musicals and sang show tunes (or original musical comedies in the same vein). They gained an underground cult following that led to mainstream exposure. The Cockettes were the subject of a 2002 documentary titled The Cockettes and directed by David Weissman and Bill Weber.

  You'll probably get glitter in your soul listening to these on-location interviews and sparkly pieces of the 50th Anniversary of the Cockettes from the Thrillpeddlers, Sluts-A-Go-Go, The Cockettes documentary, a threesome of sexy gender-queer Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence; Sister Dana Van Iquity, Sister Roma, and Sister Freida Desire, oh my! Plus, Original Cockettes composer Scrumby Koldewyn & Michael from Pearls Over Shanghai, Tahara from the Angels of Light (a non-commercial spin-off of the Cockettes), California Senator Scott Weiner, comedian Paul Brumbaugh, the rainbow-riffically eclectic Verasphere, a stunningly sexy impression of Mick Jagger from a Thrillpeddler in mind-bendingly tight hot pink shiny pants, and various incendiary, luminous psychedelic Drag pleasurevolutionaries and sexual freedom fighters from 1969's Summer of Love in San Francisco and commune protest movement recorded for posterity in the Victoria Theatre in the SF of today at 16th and Mission by yours truly January 4th, 2020.

Hey Queens, So first and foremost this is the longest episode yet! We promise to keep you rolling as we break down the legendary life of Harris Glenn Milstead AKA ..DIVINE and how she changed the ART of drag! The shit we get into on this episode is so fantastic, we had to bring in our first REAL expert. Kick back, untuck, and enjoy the ride with us your art lovers, not art experts and Sarina Styles... The premiere Louisiana Queen of Queens. XOXO J&Hps. Hillz really wants to be a drag queen now! Thanks a lot Sarina!!

We celebrate 50 glittery, gender-bending years of The Cockettes,  an avant-garde theatre & dance troupe from San Francisco's psychedelic Summer of Love. The Cockettes introduced their mind-bendingly joy to so many iconic names that shaped pop culture; Filmaker John Waters, Actress Divine, The Rocky Horrow Picture Show, Heklina, & the spin-off theatre group, The Thrill-Peddlers. Let’s explore the scene, the inspiration, the shadow, and take a deep dive into a part of the glamtastic history of San Franfreakshow with “Goldie” star Birdie Bob Watt and Dan Karkoska aka DJ Dank producer of Cockettes Are Golden: A 50th Anniversary Celebration with Comedian Paul Brumbaugh. Birdie Bob Watt graces the Mutiny FM theatre with “Cruising” a Cockettes original song! We’ll also hear “Hot Greeks,” “69 is Fine,” “No Nose Nanook”from Pearls Over Shanghai , “ Blood on Your Face” from Vice Palace, “Endless Masturbation Blues” & “Oriental Nights.” Tinsel Tarts in A Hot Coma is another Cockettes show previously on Sexploration with Monika.  Comedian Patrick Carlin, George Carlin’s little brother, joins us peppering the conversation on his salty left-coast perspective on how to incite a chow hall riot, the value of a good cry, & the importance of finding your very own misfits.

With the success of Dragula, a lot of new followers have developed for the world of alternative drag. But alternative drag already pierced the mainstream decades before. In today’s episode we take a look at the 1960s and 70s at how the counterculture changed drag forever and introduced some of its wildest monsters and most outrageous and successful artists who used drag. Music, theater, film, photography, and even mime influenced and were influenced by drag at this time and these uses aaltered the way drag functioned forever. So come along as we look at everything from The Cockettes’ commune life and bearded drag queens, Sylvester’s takeover of the music world, and so much more!

Well, well, well. What do we have here? An exciting little chat with cabaret artist and bearded drag lady Timberlina about their love for The Cockettes? Yes, that's exactly what we have here!! The Cockettes were a legendary, radical queer theater collective. Don't you want to hear about them? Of course you do!!!  Links: Timberlina The Cockettes Years and Years

Trans activist and SF Pride Lifetime achievement Award Honoree: Donna Personna.

Meet a pathbreaker and a powerful persona. Donna Personna is an artist and activist for transgender rights who got her start with the Cockettes. She has served on the boards of Trans March and Transgender Day of Remembrance, and on the committees to name streets after Vicki Marlene and Compton's Cafeteria in San Francisco's Transgender Cultural District. In 2018, she raised San Francisco's first transgender flag at City Hall with Mayor London Breed. Donna was the subject of the Iris Prize-winning 2013 short film My Mother and was featured in the film Beautiful by Night. Donna has been covered in media outlets such as Out, The Advocate, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Daily Beast. The immersive play she co-wrote, The Compton's Cafeteria Riot, recreates San Francisco transgender history and received many accolades, including SF Weekly's Best of 2018. Join us as Michelle Meow brings her long-running daily radio show to The Commonwealth Club one day each week. Meet fascinating—and often controversial—people discussing important issues of interest to the LGBTQ community, and have your questions ready. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Abby Dees and Wenzel Jones discuss the Lesbians assaulted on a London Bus, Washington Supreme Court upholds its non-discrimination laws against “religious freedoms” claims, Straight Pride in Boston, Trump banning PRIDE Flags on embassy flag poles, Dyke march in D.C. banning Star of David on PRIDE Flags to keep the peace, and Jeanne Manford creating PFLAG all in the Honest Tea. Also... Steve Pride catches up with the director The Cockettes a documentary release 17 years in the making Wenzel and Abby ask Facts of Life and Deadwood actress, author and stand-up-comedian Geri Gewell, “What’s Your Story?” Thanks for listening! Please Rate, Comment and Share this podcast. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imruradio/message

It’s the last week of the Maximum Fun Drive - ya’ll have been rocking it, and Nnekay is back to ring in all the Maximum Fun Drive fun! We also have a special Guest Cohost Bay Area Legend Steven LeMay, star of the SF drag stage production of of Sex & the City, he’s been on Project Runway and he shares so many great insights especially into the evolution of drag, history of drag, ageism in the gay, and performance community, his thoughts on current Drag Queens and the popularity of mainstream Ru Paul’s drag race, along with his journey into finding himself as a “female illusionist”. James is taking you to court with 5 cases across the country that are dismantling marriage equality, and could get pushed up to the Supreme Court... or is it 6? James and Steven will debate about that. Plus politics, the election, and lots of fun, and Nnekay will be back to chime in to tell you how you can get involved in this year’s Maximum Fun Drive! Let’s do it! LINKS: https://www.thedailybeast.com/these-five-court-cases-could-change-the-future-of-lgbt-rights?ref=scroll https://www.huffpost.com/entry/michigan-lgbtq-adoptions-deal_n_5c9565aae4b057f7330addab https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-high-school-at-the-center-of-pennsylvanias-trans-bathroom-showdown Get involved with Maximum Fun Drive! Become a member or upgrade your membership: https://maximumfun.org/donate Follow Steven LeMay: IG: @chezlemay Shop at Steven's Store Retrofit vintage clothing: https://www.etsy.com/shop/retrofityourworld?ref=l2-shop-info-avatar&listing_id=664118158 http://www.retrofityourworld.com/ Twitter: @minoritykorner Ask Minority Korner Anything: minoritykorner@gmail.com Like Us On Facebook: Minority Korner

Sal starts a monthly book exchange with a bigot. Devlyn can’t shut up about Billie Jean King. We proclaim Bobby Hill a gay icon. Special guest filmmaker David Weissman joins us! David directed some fantastic queer history documentaries, like The Cockettes, We Were Here, and now Conversations with Gay Elders. We chat about David’s youth in San Francisco, Sylvester, Harvey Milk, and cruising.Check out more of David Weissman’s work at davidweissmanfilms.com.Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @theythempod theypodcast.com to submit content, suggestions, or if you are a Chicago pro-LGBTQ+ business interested in sponsoring the show!

Peaches Christ, AKA Joshua Grannell, has mentored a whole generation of San Francisco drag performers, including the fantastically-tattooed Veruca Bathsalts, AKA Seth Shubin. In this third installment of Meet the MAYtriarchy, we talk to them both about the fellowship of performance, keeping drag transgressive, and how their creative contributions are part of a much bigger cultural movement and legacy. Joshua Grannell is a filmmaker best known as his alter-ego “Peaches Christ”, an underground drag superstar and cult movie impresario. Joshua is the writer and director of the feature film All About Evil. The award-winning dark comedy gore film stars Natasha Lyonne, Thomas Dekker, Cassandra Peterson, Mink Stole, and Peaches Christ herself. Joshua’s infamous cult-movie parody events are produced by his company Peaches Christ Productions at the Castro Theatre and regularly draw over 2,000 attendees to each new show before touring the West Coast. Other Peaches hosted events have featured special guest stars John Waters, Cloris Leachman, Appolonia, Barry Bostwick, Pam Grier, and more. Peaches Christ has been featured in the films Milk, I Am Divine, Diary Of A Teenage Girl, Mansfield 66/67, and on HBO’s Looking. In 2018, Joshua created a new company called "Into The Dark" that will produce immersive theatrical haunted shows in the Bay Area written & directed by him. The first show,Terror Vault, is happening at The San Francisco Mint in October. Seth Shubin, the self-proclaimed "Jerk of all trades" (also known as his sometimes alter ego "Veruca Bathsalts") is a nanny and costume designer for Peaches Christ Productions by day, bartender, drag queen and event producer by night. Originally hailing from Philadelphia he moved to the bay in 2013 to live out the San Francisco hustle, pursuing all his hopes and dreams. Seth throws the widely popular queer punk night "Desperate Living” every first Friday of the month at The Stud as well as the bi-monthly over the top film series “Film School Drop Outs” at The Roxie Theater. A lover of Cats, Clowns and all things trash. .·:*'`*:·..·:*'`*:·.·:*'`*:·..·:*'`*:·.·:*'`*:·. MOMMA B’S GOODIE BAG OF HELPFUL LINKS Learn more about San Francisco’s legacy of drag performance with The Cockettes: https://www.cockettes.com Learn more about Peaches with these docs! https://vimeo.com/137921217 and https://youtu.be/ggP8oVFtOss Yes, you TOO should plan a trip to San Francisco around a Peaches Christ performance: www.peacheschrist.com A helpful guide made for educators about pronouns, that can be helpful to anyone who wants to be more aware of how they use pronouns: https://www.glsen.org/sites/default/files/GLSEN%20Pronouns%20Resource.pdf .·:*'`*:·..·:*'`*:·.·:*'`*:·..·:*'`*:·.·:*'`*:·. Advice from Mom is a production of Wise Ones Advice Services. It was produced by Juliet Hinely & Rebecca Garza-Bortman. Editing by Juliet Hinely and Samantha Land. Mixed and mastered by Jake Young. Publicity by Anna Beyder. This interview was recorded at KQED in San Francisco. Audio assistance by Bryan Garza. Our theme music is by my band, Love Jerks. Special thanks to Cass Adair for his help on this episode. This podcast is for informational purposes only and is not intended to offer diagnosis or treatment of any medical or psychological condition. All treatment decisions should be made in partnership with your health professional.

Inför denna hänryckningens helg ska vi ägna oss åt en amerikansk man som gjorde till sin uppgift att öppna människors alla sinnen på vid gavel med hjälp av en kemisk substans Timothy Leary. Timothy Leary var mannen som fick LSD att betraktas som både en frälsning, och en förbannelse. En inte helt okontroversiell bedrift, för att uttrycka sig milt. Somliga kom att betrakta Timothy Leary som en guru som ledsagade dem till fantastiska fröjder. Andra ansåg att han ledde människor in i fördärvet. Den amerikanske presidenten Richard Nixon kallade honom till och med för den farligaste mannen i Amerika, som ett led i att brännmärka droger, och dess förespråkare.  Effekterna av LSD, i alla fall de gynnsamma, gick inte människor i olika subkulturer och kreativa yrken förbi. Författare, skådespelare och artister av olika slag var snabba att snappa upp att här fanns något att testa för att tänja på hjärnan, och fantasins, gränser. I veckans program pratar vi med konstnären Fayette Hauser, som kom till San Fransisco 1968 och var en av grundarna till den lika utflippade som legendariska teatergruppen The Cockettes. Vi besöker också New York Public Library där Timothy Learys eget arkiv nu finns (tidigare beslagtaget av FBI). Vi pratar också med författaren Magnus Linton och Fred Nyberg, seniorprofessor i biologisk beroendeforskning på institutionen för farmaceutisk biovetenskap vid Uppsala Universitet.

Scrumbly Koldewyn remembers the '60s San Francisco theatre scene; Jenny Gilbert & Shahdiha Bari debate environmentalism and fashion at the V&A and Clare Lilley Director of Programmes at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park looks at the use of thread and textiles in art. Plus drag at The Royal Vauxhall Tavern in London with performers Lavinia Co-op and Rhys Hollis, plus Ben Walters who is researching this history.The environmental impact of fashion over more than 400 years is examined in the first UK exhibition to look at this topic. That's how the V&A is billing its new show Fashioned From Nature. Jenny Gilbert from De Montfort University visits the display and talks to Shahidha Bari about her research into textiles. Fashioned from Nature runs at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London from April 21st to January 27th 2019. The Yorkshire Sculpture Park is displaying Beyond Time an installation in the C18th chapel by Chiharu Shiota until September 2nd.Scrumbly Koldewyn is one of the founding members of the Cockettes, the legendary psychedelic hippie theatre troupe based in San Francisco in the 60s The tenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race has just started to air on Netflix. The Royal Vauxhall Tavern is South London's oldest surviving gay venue and is the UK's first building to be Grade II listed in recognition of its importance to LGBTQ community history. Producer: Debbie Kilbride

In honor of Mothers everywhere, we have several stories about new projects being brought into the world this week: a film project that's all about learning from the past, the Eugene Symphony's three ambitious new compositions, and a play that takes us across the boarder. Plus, Charles Bradley sings tribute to his own mom.Into the Beautiful NorthAn adaptation of Luis Alberto Urrea’s bestselling novel “Into the Beautiful North” premieres at Milagro Theatre this week. The story follows three women from a small town in Mexico—a town with a total male population of zero. Immigration to the US has lured their community's men away, but our heroines, spurred on by the classic western flick “The Magnificent Seven,” are determined to bring back at least half a dozen of the good ones.Rough Waters for Arts Central - 4:50For twenty years, the Bend-based nonprofit Arts Central has brought arts education to central Oregon under the leadership of executive director Cate O’Hagan. Last month, though, O’Hagan quit after coming into conflict with the organization’s board over her role and the nonprofit's office space. We look at what this could mean for the region.Changes, from Charles Bradley - 8:47NPR called Charles Bradley’s “the most unlikely soul career of the millennium,” and the singer’s new album, “Changes,” reflects this and more. Bradley talks with NPR's David Greene about the album's unlikely starting place in a Black Sabbath cover, before opening up about how deeply the album is influenced by the loss of his mother. Bradley plays the Crystal Ballroom on May 19.The Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival Is One of a Kind - 16:33Every year, the Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival, or QDoc for short, brings films (and often their makers) from around the world to Portland, about subjects ranging from gay athletes to New Zealand's favorite yodeling lesbian twins. It's the only such festival in the world, and this year it celebrates its 10th year May 19–22 at the Hollywood Theater. The co-founder David Weissman, a filmmaker best known for his docs "The Cockettes" and "We Were Here," stops by to talk about the festival and his newest project, "Conversations with Gay Elders."Eugene Symphony's Big 5-0 - 23:30The Eugene Symphony has a reputation for programming challenging works, but the symphony is pushing itself to a new level for its 50th anniversary with three new commissions by world class composers. Hear Oregon composer Robert Kyr's “Dawning of the World (Piano Concerto No. 1)” during the season finale on May 12.Return to Neverland with Peter and the Starcatcher - 30:45What does it take to recapture the wonder of being a kid? Turns out, the Tony-winning musical "Peter and the Starcatcher," which bills itself as a grown-ups' prequel to Peter Pan. We ask Broadway veteran Rodney Hicks to see the Portland Playhouse's local premiere for the next stop in our “What Are You Looking At?” series, and are rewarded with a night of uproarious laughs and unbridled imagination, playing through May 29.Mohsin Hamed - 38:58Pakistani and British author Mohsin Hamed reliably produces books with painfully clever titles and wisely-portioned doses of experimentation. His novels “The Reluctant Fundamentalist" and "How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia,” were short listed for the Man Booker Prize and made the New York Times Best Seller list, respectively. “Discontent and Its Civilizations,” a collection of essays, came out last year and his newest novel, “Exit West,” is slated for release in 2017. Hamed visited Portland recently and found time to sit down with Think Out Loud’s Dave Miller. It's always good to go out with a bang, so listen in for that conversation at the end of the show.

Dedicated to capturing the oral history of queer San Francisco, Out In The Bay host Marilyn Pittman interviews one of the legendary figures of the 60's, 70's, and 80's: former Cockettes member, Dolores Deluce. Her memoir, "My Life, A Four-Letter Word: Confessions of a Counter-Culture Diva," made Amazon's Top 20 and is an intimate, honest look back at life in the city during its radical heyday. Friends with Divine, Sylvester; lover to many gay men, witness to the devastation of AIDS, Dolores is a survivor with stories to tell. Thursday, October 22, 2015, 7pm Pacific.

You may wonder what is a "Tinsel Tart in a Hot Coma?” But this musical isn't about making sense, it's about outrageousness!  It does ~have~ a plot about a Hollywood star (or a "Tinsel Tart") going back to New York, but this musical trades narrative for being outrageously sparkly, queer, and sexually provocative. If you listened to the "Hot Greeks" Sexploration with Monika episode, you'll remember the Cockettes, who have been described as "mindless libertineage," and "beautiful, funny, liberating, psychedelic messengers from the gods." There's a story within a story here that arcs from SF to NYC and goes all the way back to the late 1960's North Beach. Until June 1st 29th, 2013, the Thrillpeddlers are reviving another Cockette's Theatre of The Ridiculous sextravaganza with 3 of the original Cockettes, Scrumbly Koldewyn, “Sweet Pam” Tent, and Rumi Missabu. This troupe of glittery anti-establishment drag queens took "Tinsel Tarts in A Hot Coma" on the road to the Big Apple in 1971. They got a lot of press, and while not all of it was good, they penetrated the culture, inspiring glam rock, glitter rock, 80's glitter-glam fashion, a host of spin off troupes, bands, documentaries, YouTube make-up tutorials and more. The "Tinsel Tarts" you can see now at the Hypnodrome, is no less glittery but restored, rewritten, and rehearsed... from a 1971 outline to Thrillpeddler's full-length version. The Thrillpeddlers are still clearly having a blast onstage... but the set doesn't really look like cardboard anymore. We'll speak with original Cockettes Sweet Pam Tent and Rumi Missabu in this episode of Sexploration with Monika, and the person who may have coined the term "drag king," Leigh Crow, aka Elvis Herselvis. In the previous Sexploration with Monika episode about the Cockettes, we interviewed the other original Cockette - composer Scrumbly Koldewyn, plus Thrillpeddler's artistic director Russell Blackwood. "Tinsel Tarts in a Hot Coma" has just been extended and will run until June 29th!