The Cockettes
Legendary early 70s drag performance troupe The Cockettes are undergoing a revival thanks to a new documentary film (which debuted at the Sundance Festival in January) and two museum retrospectives in San Francisco. J.H. Tompkins traces the group's history and interviews several members at a reception. . . . Moon Trent's Cockettes history site has photos, stills, a list of group members and more.
San Francisco Bay Guardian (May 2002)
The San Francisco Bay Guardian letters page has an anecdote about Janis Joplin catching a Cockettes show in 1969.
San Francisco Bay Guardian (May 2002)
The Cockettes, the documentary about the renowned 1970s drag performance troupe, opens in Austin today, and the local alt-weekly gives it a rave review. The refreshingly Flash-free official film site has a history of the group, collected reviews, filmmaker profiles, "making of" background, archival photos and video clips. Did you know: "In anticipation of the televised wedding of President Nixon's daughter Tricia, The Cockettes made a film called TRICIA'S WEDDING, featuring a transvestite Tricia, a drunken Mamie Eisenhower, a party crashing Lady Bird Johnson, and a drag Eartha Kitt spiking the punch with LSD, resulting in a mad orgy." (Aug 2002)
