Scrumbly Koldewyn is one of the founding members of a hippie drag troupe active in San Francisco. The Cockettes were only around for a few years, beginning in 1969, but left a whole catalog of ...

Flashback to 1969, the year the performance artist known as Hibiscus founded the Cockettes, a theater collective that requires not just one adjective, but several, to fully describe its aesthetic: ...

Half a century ago, a bedazzled assortment of psychedelically-influenced, collective-living, sexually experimental, and inherently theatrical gay men and straight women forever transformed the Bay ...

A fascinatingly detailed snapshot of the flamboyant outer reaches of countercultural San Francisco in the hippie years and an emotional celebration of diversity, liberation, sexual anarchy and ...

Onstage, it's pandemonium: A sea of bodies writhes in an elaborate tangle of velvet, lace, baubles and exposed flesh. The makeup is fabulous and the chests are hairy as men, women and indefinables ...

It's been almost four decades since San Francisco's famous Cockettes disbanded, but that hasn't stopped the pioneering glam-and-glitter anarchists from spawning another hit. "Pearls Over Shanghai," ...

A fascinatingly detailed snapshot of the flamboyant outer reaches of countercultural San Francisco in the hippie years and an emotional celebration of diversity, liberation, sexual anarchy and ...

The misbegotten gender-bending progeny of Busby Berkeley, Karl Marx, and Timothy Leary, the amateurish theatre troupe The Cockettes burned brightly for two and a half eventful years in the late '60s ...