Castro #2

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Content Type	Content Type Video
Collection(s)	Collection(s) GLBT Historical Society Film and Video Collection, GLBT-VIDEO
Description	Description Raw footage from the 1976 documentary short film The Castro: A Definitively Biased View. The tape depicts a ventriquist act and a drag performance utilizing yellowface at an unnamed performance venue. Yellowface refers to a tradition of theatrical and musical performance, originating in the mid-19th century, in which white actors deployed racist and stereotypical costumes, makeup, props, gestures, dialects, and musical sounds to connote ""Chineseness"" and/or ""Asianness"" and, in turn, foreigness and racial inferiority. It also includes a conversation with a man registering voters on the street, interior shots of Cliff's Variety store, and extended footage of a street theater performance.
Resource Type	Resource Type Moving Image
Extent	Extent 1 item
Subject	Subject LGBTQ Drag Theater
Geographic Subject	Geographic Subject Castro (San Francisco, Calif.)
Persons	Persons Creator (cre): Willem, Ericka Creator (cre): Hart, Edward
Date Created	Date Created 1976
Publication Note	Publication Note This public digital collection was supported by funding provided by the State of California, administered by the California State Library.
Rights	Rights Courtesy of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender (GLBT) Historical Society, San Francisco CA. This work is made accessible for purposes of education and research. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user. Contact the GLBT Historical Society Archivist for more information about reproduction and permission requests and our Take-Down Policy.

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