The Cockettes - Trailer
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Uploaded by StrandReleasing on Feb 6, 2009
Available on DVD at strandreleasing.com
As the psychadelic San Francisco of the 1960s began evolving into the gay San Francisco of the 1970s, The Cockettes, a flamboyant ensemble of hippies (women, gay men, and babies) decked themselves out in gender-bending drag and tons of glitter for a series of legendary midnight shows at the Palace Theater in North Beach. With titles like "Tinsel Tarts in a Hot Coma" and "Pearls Over Shanghai", these all-singing, all-dancing extravaganzas featured elaborate costumes, rebellious sexuality, and exuberant chaos.
In their 2 1/2 year existence, The Cockettes created 20 shows, and were featured in 4 films. They created a unique burst of cultural experimentation and artistic outrageousness that continues to influence the worlds of theater, music, fashion, gay politics and spirituality, and urban club life.
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I love The Cockettes!!!! They were sooooo free and anarchic.
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I want to be a Cockette. Alas, I have no cock :(
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The nature of decadance is that it spreads like a plague. Then what do you have? A decadant society. You can't go many places from there, and that's when the real revolutions happen... and even bigger problems arise.
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Just bought this on DVD
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shame the sound is choppy
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Anyone who's gay and thinks of themselves as "alternative" needs to see this movie IMMEDIATELY.
Psst... this version of the trailer's audio is skipping. May want to fix it (or re-upload it).
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Sound is seriously screwed. And hell I'm straight and *I'm* inspired. Not sure I'd survive the drugs these days though.
gedq 2 years ago 4
The Cockettes were great! I saw them several times in NYC in the 1970's!
rrrina 1 year ago 2