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Gender Cruise on the Circle Line - Part One

Glenn Belverio

1991 00:29:00 United StatesEnglishColorMono4:38mm video
Tags:
Activism , Comedy , Gender , LGBTQ , Performance , Politics , Television , TV production

Description

This two-part video Gender Cruise on the Circle Line involves Brenda and Glennda leading a group of drag queens, drag kings, and other gender nonconforming people on a three-hour ride on the Circle Line boat around Manhattan.

An episode of The Brenda and Glennda Show, hosted by Brenda Sexual and Glennda Orgasm. Featuring Queen Esther, Felony, Kassandra Kaye, Bedda Lettuce, Winona Lettuce, Charles Lofton, Vivienne Maricevic, Chris Martin, Emily Nahmanson, Danny Torr, Miss Understood, Jack Waters, and Jon Winkleman. Directed by Stevin Michels. This show was made possible in part by funds from the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art supported by The Jerome Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts.

"The Circle Line is a tourist attraction, so the point of our intervention was to bring drag/trans/gender visibility to a public space."

— Glenn Belverio

About Glenn Belverio

Glenn Belverio is an independent film and video maker who lives and works in New York City. He began producing and co-hosting the popular Manhattan Cable series The Brenda and Glennda Show in 1990, a talk show that took the art of drag out of the nightclubs and into the streets, mixing politics with humor. In 1993, the series became Glennda and Friends, a post-queer talk show featuring provocative co-stars such as gay pornographer Bruce LaBruce and guerrilla scholar Camille Paglia. Belverio and Paglia's collaborative project Glennda and Camille Do Downtown later became a short film, and was well received at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival. Glenn's work has screened at venues such as the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, and the New Museum, NY. Glennda and Camille Do Downtown won the Best Short Documentary prize at the 1994 Chicago Underground Film Festival.

Also See: Glenn Belverio: An Interview