Cockettes (9 results)

Magazine. 100p. includes covers, 8x10.5 inches, fashion, news, reviews, glossy gay male fashion and entertainment magazine in pictorial wraps. Includes a four page article on the Cockettes illustrated with backstage and NYC photos.

Magazine. [40p] including covers, 8.5x11 inches, photos, ads, listings, reviews, features, lightly worn and toned else good pastebound newsprint entertainment magazine. The Eighth of March Anti-Vice Squad Committee marches for the abolition of the Vice Squad. Defund the Police? Where have I heard that later? Also a half-page, three column review of "Journey to the Center of Uranus" by The Cockettes!

Magazine. 48p. including covers, 8.5x11 inches, ads, illustrated with photos and a calendar of events, very good magazine in soiled, worn, stapled pictorial wraps. Report on Supervisor Feinstein at SIR. March to State Capitol. Gay In Cuba Conclusion. Polk Street festival. Short piece with photo on The Cockettes. Hollywood Gay Parade. S.I.R. was an extremely important homophile organization in the 1960s-70s and "Vector" was the main gay magazine for the Bay Area during those years. The magazine began life as a newsletter in 1964, merely several folded and or stapled sheets with news and calendars. The late Sixties found the magazine concentrating more on local and national news of interest to gay men. The final years saw the magazine turn more to a standard gay men's magazine with photos of young men from around the Bay Area.

Wraps. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Outrageous photographs of The Cockettes, the notorious LSD-inspired, hippie drag-queen theatrical group from San Francisco whose members also included women. These photos were intended to be cut out and made into paper dolls that could be dressed in their own outfits. This book was originally conceived as a souvenir book for their show at the Anderson Theater on the Lower East Side of NYC. The Cockettes' uninhibited performances were in sync with the cultural and social changes of the time and they achieved a cult following as well as much coverage from the mainstream media. Their stage appearance and theatrics anticipated the glam-rock scene that came into prominence later in the '70s. A rare and fabulous piece of San Francisco counterculture ephemera. Quarto: unpaginated. Original pictorial paper wrappers. A fine copy. Accompanied by a postcard advertisement for a 2011 exhibition of Cockettes photographs by Fayette Hauser at the drkrm/gallery in Los Angeles.

Newspaper. Eighteen issues broken run of the second year's issues of the Bay Area's first mass-distribution gay newspaper. Issue numbers include: volume 2:3, 5, 6, 12-26. Headlines include: Gay Militants Zap S.I.R. Dinner. Anti Vice Squad Demonstration. Gay Political Power Growing. McGovern: the Great Gay Hope. The World Just Ain't Ready for the Camp Awards. Christopher Street Parade. S.I.R. Burns - Arson?

Condition: Fine. Pictorial handbill, illustrated with a line drawing of the Tinsel Tarts, 11 x 8.5". Handbill announcing The Cockette's performance of Tinsel Tarts in a Hot Coma at the Palace Theatre in San Fransisco, March 5 & 6, 1971. Lightly toned with diagonal crease at center else Fine. Rare Cockettes handbill for a performance at The Palace Theatre in San Fransisco. The Cockettes were an improvisational Bay Area group, "a mockery of of established Broadway and Hollywood theatre - along with an extended parody of institutionalized entertainment" (John Rothermel; "Cockettes Creative Conflicts"). John and Yoko, Andy Warhol and Truman Capote were just a few of the dazzling attendees of this LSD-inspired gay liberation theatrical group of hippie drag queens, and some women, from the Haight-Ashbury counterculture. The Cockettes were known for their fabulous, outrageous costumes (or lack thereof) and song-filled theatrical performances. "Wally, whose headresses were often two feet high, once told me his street drags were so hot that he couldn't even get into local San Fransisco gay bars. Wally and Hibiscus used to compete in the early shows, each trying to outdo the other via headdress and costume." (Rothermel) A fantastic piece of ephemera to commemorate the self-proclaimed "freaky" drag group.

Vintage flyer for a performance by The Stooges (billed here as Iggy and The Stooges), hippie theater troupe The Cockettes, and all-girl underground rock group The GTOs, on July 16, 1971 at the Hollywood Palladium. The concert was canceled after The Stooges formally broke up on July 9, 1971. A preview of The Cockettes' satirical 1971 film "Tricia's Wedding" (here as "Tricia Nixon's Wedding"), where they reenact a version of President Nixon's daughter's wedding to Edward Cox that includes Eartha Kitt spiking the punch bowl with LSD, was also to be shown. Even before it was canceled, it's hard to imagine how this concert would have come together, given the clashing styles of the three acts. The Cockettes, founded in 1969 in San Francisco, were a queer performance art group that performed improvised musical numbers in elaborate genderbending costumes, and had become a sensation among the West Coast arts and culture scene. The GTOs were a satirical rock band formed in Los Angeles, with ties to Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa, who would produce their only album, 1969's "Permanent Damage." 8.5 x 11 inches. Fine.

Vintage two-color poster for an unseen performance by punk icons the Stooges, queer hippie theatre troupe the Cockettes, all-girl rock group The GTOs, and John Mendelsohn's short-lived rock band Super Star, held at the Hollywood Palladium on July 16, 1971. The show would ultimately be canceled after The Stooges formally broke up on July 9, 1971. A preview of The Cockettes' satirical 1971 film "Tricia's Wedding" was also to have been shown. The film featured The Cockettes reenacting President Nixon's daughter Tricia's wedding to Edward Cox, interspersed with a number of humorous scenes, including Eartha Kitt spiking the punch bowl with LSD. Even before it was canceled, it's hard to imagine how this concert would have come together, given the clashing styles of the acts. Founded in 1969 in San Francisco, the Cockettes were a performance art group that performed improvised musical numbers in elaborate genderbending costumes, and had become a sensation among the West Coast arts and culture scene. The GTOs were a satirical rock band formed in Los Angeles, with ties to Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa, who would produce the band's only album, Permanent Damage (1969). And the Stooges were simply the Stooges. 11.25 x 26 inches. About Near Fine.

Condition: Fine. Color lithographic poster. Designed by John Flowers, printed in purple and gold on light rose-colored paper. Measures approximately 17.5" x 11". Neatly tipped-in at the corner edges into a mat frame. A fine copy. A beautifully printed poster advertisement from the Cockettes legendary series of midnight shows given at the Palace Theater in North Beach, San Francisco. A psychedelic drag queen troupe founded by Hibiscus (George Harris), the Cockettes performed outrageous parodies of show tunes, and much else. Breaking many social, cultural, and sexual boundaries along the way, they inspired the glitter rock-era of David Bowie, Elton John, The New York Dolls, and filmmaker John Waters. A scarce survival.