Cockettes (Theatrical troupe)

found: The Cockettes [VR] c2002:container (The Cockettes ... a theatrical troupe that was the sensation of the late 1960s and early 1970s hippie movement in San Francisco)

found: Wikipedia, viewed March 4, 2024:Hibiscus (entertainer) (born George Edgerly Harris III, September 6, 1949, Bronxville, New York; died May 6, 1982, New York City; American actor and performance artist; started his career in New York City and moved to San Francisco, where, in the early 1970s, he founded the psychedelic gay liberation theater collective known as the Cockettes; when the Cockettes wanted to start charging for their shows, Hibiscus left and formed the Angels of Light in San Francisco, which gave many free theatrical performances in the early 1970s in San Francisco and New York City; after moving back to New York, he put together a number of off-off Broadway revues, of which Sky High ran the longest; he also appeared in a daytime soap opera under his birth name; in the early 1980s, he and his sisters Jayne Anne, Eloise and Mary Lou and brother Fred, formed the glitter rock group Hibiscus and the Screaming Violets, supported by musicians Ray Ploutz on bass, Bill Davis on guitar and Michael Pedulla on drums)