An edifying must-see that has received accolades at film festivals the world over, We Were Here is the first film to take a deep and reflective look back at the arrival and impact of a definitive chapter in a city's queer history. It explores how the inhabitants were affected by, and how they responded to, a calamitous epidemic.Though a San Francisco-based story, We Were Here extends beyond San Francisco and beyond AIDS itself. It speaks to our capacity as individuals to rise to the occasion, and to the incredible power of a community coming together with love, compassion, and determination.In the face of adversity they stood strong and united. This is their story.
1969. San Francisco. Sexual Anarchy! Emerging at the end of the `60s The Cockettes were a theatrical troupe of assorted hippies drag queens and gay men who embraced the new drug-fuelled anti-establishment counterculture in San Francisco. Founded by the flamboyant `Hibiscus' they started out by doing improv musicals before the midnight film at the Palace Theatre. As their popularity grew so did the number of performers and the flamboyance of the events which continued into th
It was complete sexual anarchy, which is always a beautiful thing! John Waters Celebrating 50 years of the original gender revolutionaries, Peccadillo Pictures proudly presents The Cockettes digitally restored. A flamboyant ensemble of gender-bending hippies, The Cockettes created a series of LSD-fueled musicals in early 1970s San Francisco. When famed writer Truman Capote and film critic Rex Reed raved about a Cockettes show to their East Coast chums, it began a madcap saga of grand delusions that led to one of the most anticipated, and most disastrous, theatrical debuts in off-off Broadway history.
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