"Free Zone: Drag at the Pyramid Club in the 1980s," Panel Discussion at Esopus Space (Excerpt)

On Wednesday, June 30th, Esopus Space and the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation co-hosted a panel discussion, "Free Zone: the Drag Scene at the Pyramid Club in the 1980s," at Esopus Space. The event related to the exhibition currently on view at the gallery, "Clayton Patterson: Pyramid Portraits," which consists of 44 photographs by Patterson of the extraordinarily inventive drag queens who performed at the Pyramid Club on New York's Lower East Side in the mid-1980s. Panelists included performance historian Joe E. Jeffreys, drag legend Agosto Machado, performance artist Iris Rose, GVSHP executive director Andrew Berman, and photographer/documentarian/artist Clayton Patterson. It was a beautiful evening, filled with fascinating reminiscences about the club, its denizens, and the Lower East Side in that particular period. Video by Elsa Rensaa.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Esopus Space
• Clayton Patterson
• Pyramid Club
• drag
• drag queens
• downtown performance
• lower east side
• east village
• agosto machado
• joe E Jeffreys
• Andrew Berman