The Cockettes

This movie tells of the rise and fall of San Francisco's legendary theatrical troupe of hippies and drag queens. The original gender revolutionaries! A flamboyant ensemble of gender-bending hippies, THE COCKETTES created a series of LSD-fueled musicals in early 1970s San Francisco. These all-singing, all-dancing extravaganzas featured outrageous costumes, rebellious sexuality, and exuberant chaos. With archive footage of Peggy Cass, Allen Ginsberg, Anthony Perkins, the Grateful Dead and many more.

Keywords

  • Doing Gender
  • Label: docfilm42
  • Pioneers
  • Queerness: Living Out Loud
  • drugs
  • history
  • theater
  • trans*
  • underground

Actors

  • John Waters
  • Larry Brinkin
  • Candy Darling
  • Allen Ginsberg

Director

  • Bill Weber
  • David Weissman

Documentary, Queer


1h 39min


16+

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United States of America
2002
A flamboyant ensemble of gender-bending hippies created a series of LSD-fueled musicals in early 1970s San Francisco.

A flamboyant ensemble of gender-bending hippies created a series of LSD-fueled musicals in early 1970s San Francisco.


This movie tells of the rise and fall of San Francisco's legendary theatrical troupe of hippies and drag queens. The original gender revolutionaries!


A flamboyant ensemble of gender-bending hippies, THE COCKETTES created a series of LSD-fueled musicals in early 1970s San Francisco. These all-singing, all-dancing extravaganzas featured outrageous costumes, rebellious sexuality, and exuberant chaos.


With archive footage of Peggy Cass, Allen Ginsberg, Anthony Perkins, the Grateful Dead and many more.

Festivals

Cast & Crew