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On Saturday, I attended the 50th Anniversary celebration of #TheCockettes, the San Francisco drag troupe (1970-73) which birthed bearded drag and whose members included #Sylvester and was the West Coast home of #Divine. #JohnWaters joined to share his favorite memories.

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It was amazing to be in an audience which included many people in their 70s and 80s (and older) dressed in drag.

[Video Description: Filmmaker John Waters telling seniors in the audience that if they did LSD in the early 1970s, they should do it again.]
One thing I learned during the evening was that Hibiscus (George Harris III), the Founder of #TheCockettes was the individual shown placing flowers into the rifles of soldiers in that 1967 photo made famous around the world. He also invited the concept of bearded drag.

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