OUT of Site: Haight-Ashbury Trailer – FESCH.TV

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OUT of Site, San Francisco’s performance-driven queer history tour, returns this summer with a dazzling new edition starring award-winning stage, television and film actor Tina D’Elia. Following the sold-out tours of North Beach and South of Market, this year’s edition reveals the untold queer history of the neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury, a name synonymous worldwide with the hippie counterculture that emerged here in the 1960s.

Audiences will meet Peggy Caserta, a successful out lesbian business owner on Haight Street and inventor of the bell bottom jeans, outfitting rock’s new royalty like the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane. She was also Janis Joplin’s laid-back lesbian lover, later scapegoated as the cause of Joplin’s untimely death.

The tour will also feature George Harris III aka Hibiscus, the original flower power child who would go on to found the psychedelic pansexual theater collective known as the Cockettes. Bedecked in thrift-store finery, decaying flowers and dripping with glitter, Hibiscus left a lasting mark that’s visible today across the worlds of drag, theater, music and fashion.

Videographer & Editer: Robert Elcock