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Canessa Gallery

March 1 - March 31, 2012

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708 Montgomery Street San Francisco, CA 94111
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Children of Paradise Life with the Cockettes
Opening Reception Friday, March 2nd, 5-10 pm Film Night Saturday March 17th, 7-10 pm
                                                                   Closing Party                
                                            Friday March 30th, 7-10 pm
          As the psychedelic San Francisco of the 1960s began evolving into the pansexual San Francisco of the 1970s, The Cockettes, a flamboyant ensemble of hippies -- gay, straight, and undecided -- decked themselves out in gender-bending drag and tons of glitter for a series of legendary midnight musicals at the Palace Theater in North Beach. The Cockettes were born on stage, New Year’s Eve, 1969. The collective passion was to take every fantasy, desire, idol and dream and in the most joyously flamboyant way possible, put it onto the stage.