Tyler Ingolia collection of Popstitutes videotapes
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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Original videocassette recordings of performances by the Popstitutes. Performers who appear in the videos include Michael Collins, Brad Kellogg, Alvin Orloff; cabaret performer, writer, and transgender activist Justin Vivian Bond; transwoman cabaret singers Veronica Klaus and Bambi Lake; composer and filmmaker Jack Curtis Dubowsky; pop novelty act the Del Rubio Triplets; punk performers and writers Jennifer Blowdryer and Danielle Willis; Drew Daniel of the experimental electronic music duo Matmos; painter and queercore performer Jerome Caja; avant-garde drag performer The Steve Lady (Steven Price); and Fudgie Frottage (Lu Read), co-founder of the San Francisco Drag King Contest. None of the videos have been published or posted online.
The collection also includes an unreleased documentary about the Lavender Tortoise, a combination of bus tour and performance art that brought a coachload of drag queens and queer punks to Los Angeles and Disneyland in 1991. Several Klubstitute regulars participated in the trip. Also included is a video of an early show at Trannyshack, a week drag cabaret and queer dance club hosted by Heklina from 1996 to 2008 at The Stud in San Francisco. A number of performers who had made their names at Klubstitute went on to appear at Trannyshack.
Dates
- 1988-1997.
Creator
- Ingolia, Tyler (Collector, Person)
- Collins, Michael, 1958-1995. (Person)
- Kellogg, Bradley. (Person)
- Orloff, Alvin, 1961- (Person)
- Bond, Justin. (Person)
- Klaus, Veronica. (Person)
- Lake, Bambi, 1950- (Person)
- Dubowsky, Jack Curtis. (Person)
- Blowdryer, Jennifer. (Person)
- Willis, Danielle. (Person)
- Daniel, Drew, 1971- (Person)
- Caja, Jerome, 1958-1995. (Person)
- Steve Lady, 1971-2008. (Person)
- Frottage, Fudgie. (Person)
- Del Rubio Triplets (Novelty act) (Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
The Popstitutes were an influential San Francisco queer performance group and punk band founded in 1986 by Michael Collins ("Diet Popstitute"), Brad Kellogg ("Bad Popstitute"), and Alvin Orloff ("Remix von Popstitute"). Tyler Ingolia performed as a dancer and extra with the Popstitutes, and appeared regularly in sketches presented at Klubstitute, the itinerant weekly queer club night hosted by the Popstitutes in the first half of the 1990s.
Extent
14 videocassettes. (14 videocassettes.)
Abstract
Original videocassette recordings of performances by the Popstitutes. Performers who appear in the videos include Michael Collins, Brad Kellogg, Alvin Orloff; cabaret performer, writer, and transgender activist Justin Vivian Bond; transwoman cabaret singers Veronica Klaus and Bambi Lake; composer and filmmaker Jack Curtis Dubowsky; pop novelty act the Del Rubio Triplets; punk performers and writers Jennifer Blowdryer and Danielle Willis; Drew Daniel of the experimental electronic music duo Matmos; painter and queercore performer Jerome Caja; avant-garde drag performer The Steve Lady (Steven Price); and Fudgie Frottage (Lu Read), co-founder of the San Francisco Drag King Contest. None of the videos have been published or posted online.
Physical Description
Video cassettes.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524rareref@cornell.eduhttp://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- RMC Staff
- Date completed:
- June 2016
- EAD encoding:
- Jude Corina, June 2016
- Date modified:
- RMC staff, January 2018
NOTES
Collecting program: Human Sexuality Collection.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- June 2016
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu