The Cockettes (Graphic with Vintage Print Effect/Divine/Hibiscus) Size:S Framed as first-person testimony

Framed as first-person testimony

the song mirrored the very experience of stepping into a gay club in the ’70s: anticipation

it used provocation and blunt language to claim shelf space in a culture that otherwise denied queer lives any legitimacy in print

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but as a woman of radical empathy—one of the first televangelists to speak openly with and about gay men during the height of the AIDS crisis

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