TITLE | DESCRIPTION | DATE CREATED | IS FORMAT OF |
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Costume Contest at the Ramrod and Sinderella Outtakes | Costume Contest at the Ramrod, a gay bar in San Francisco, CA, and Sinderella Outtakes, circa 1965-1970. Film by Henri Leleu (1907-1996), a gay man who was active in the San Francisco leather scene and participated in LGBTQ community groups. File name: glbths 1997-13 7 003 sc |
1965 to 1970 | |
Halloween at the Ramrod 1968 | Halloween at the Ramrod, a gay bar in San Francisco, CA, 1968. Film by Henri Leleu (1907-1996), a gay man who was active in the San Francisco leather scene and participated in LGBTQ community groups. File name: glbths 1997-13 7 007 sc |
1968 | |
Halloween at the Ramrod 1969 | Halloween at the Ramrod, a gay bar in San Francisco, CA, 1969. Film by Henri Leleu (1907-1996), a gay man who was active in the San Francisco leather scene and participated in LGBTQ community groups. File name: glbths 1997-13 7 008 sc |
1969 | |
Halloween Costume Ball at the Hayloft | Halloween Costume Ball at the Hayloft, a gay bar in Los Angeles, CA, 1965. Film by Henri Leleu (1907-1996), a gay man who was active in the San Francisco leather scene and participated in LGBTQ community groups. File name: glbths 1997-13 7 002 sc. |
1965 | |
Aleshia Brevard interview, part 1 | Susan Stryker interviews Aleshia Brevard, an actor, model, author, theatre professor, and trans woman. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Brevard worked at Finocchio's drag revue as a Marilyn Monroe impersonator; a trans co-worker, Stormy, helped her to begin transitioning. She lived at the edge of the Tenderloin, and although she was not a central part of the trans community there, she felt more comfortable there than elsewhere. Stryker interviews Brevard about her early drag career, her transition, and the bars and venues where she spent time. This includes extensive attention to the culture and working conditions at Finocchio's. Portions of this interview were used for Stryker and Victor Silverman's documentary Screaming Queens. |
2001 | |
Aleshia Brevard interview, part 2 | Susan Stryker interviews Aleshia Brevard, an actor, model, author, theatre professor, and trans woman. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Brevard worked at Finocchio's drag revue as a Marilyn Monroe impersonator. In this section, Brevard narrates over a series of photographs from her career in entertainment. Portions of this interview were used for Stryker and Victor Silverman's documentary Screaming Queens. |
2001 | |
Larry Buttwinick drag party | A digitized 8mm film of people in drag at a house party, circa 1965-1975, from the Larry Buttwinick papers (2006-44).. The people are having fun, getting dressed, modeling, and celebrating. The film is from the collection of Larry Buttwinick (1924-2004), a gay man who attended drag parties starting in the 1950s.
Larry Buttwinick (1924-2004) was a gay Jewish man and an original member of the Imperial Court of San Francisco. His life intersected with prominent LGBTQ figures such as Jose Sarría (drag star, political activist, and founder of the Imperial Court) and Henry Diekow (a drag artist also known as the Baroness von Dieckoff). Buttwinick was born in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles in 1924 and served in World War II before moving to San Francisco in 1954, where he remained until his death in 2004. He was also a member of the Society for Individual Rights (SIR), an early gay and lesbian rights organization, and one of the founders of the Lavender Seniors of the East Bay. |
1965 to 1975 | |
Castro #2 | 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. |
1976 | |
The Castro: A Definitively Biased View | A documentary short film about life in the Castro. Depicted are neighborhood streetscapes and business interiors, including several antique stores, a spice shop, a clothing store, and a restaurant; an interview with Scott Smith inside Castro Camera; a conversation with performer Pristine Condition; an interview a gay activist, possibly Chris Perry, who was handing out whistles as part of a campaign to stop anti-gay violence; a street theater performance; and a a conversation with a man registering voters on the street. |
1976 | |
Drag Party | Home movie footage of a Halloween drag party, taken by Daniel Smith, a member of the Queer Blue Light Video collective. Circa 1970s.
From the Daniel A. Smith and Queer Blue Light Videotapes collection (#1999-52), GLBT Historical Society. In 2011, GLBT Historical Society volunteer John Raines digitized 79 of the nearly 100 tapes in the collection. Raines added titles (derived from notations on the physical media) and a GLBT Historical Society watermark to the videos. |
1971 to 1979 | |
Passion of Barbara Martinez rehearsal clip [002] | A tape from the Daniel A. Smith and Queer Blue Light Videotapes collection. Queer Blue Light was a gay activist video collective active in San Francisco in the 1970s. Daniel Smith was a member of the collective. The physical tape is labeled "Animation Fest." It features footage of rehearsal for the theater piece the Passion of Barbara Martinez.
In 2011, GLBT Historical Society volunteer John Raines digitized 79 of the nearly 100 tapes in the collection. Raines added titles (derived from notations on the physical media) and a GLBT Historical Society watermark to the videos. |
1975 |