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Glennda and Camille Do Downtown

Glenn Belverio

1993 00:29:00 United StatesEnglishColorMono4:3Hi8 video
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Activism , Comedy , Gender , LGBTQ , Performance , Politics , Television , TV production

Description

In this video, Glennda Orgasm and social critic Camille Paglia walk the streets of downtown Manhattan and discuss the status of mainstream feminism in the early 1990s. They visit the Stonewall Inn, Washington Square Park, and a gay bookstore, and confront a group of anti-pornography protesters. 

An episode of Glennda and Friends, hosted by Glennda Orgasm and Camille Paglia. Featuring The Centaurians, Brian Roach, and Rennard Snowden.

"In the film Glennda and Camille Do Downtown, Ms. Paglia and the drag queen Glennda Orgasm face down anti-pornography demonstrators, shouting, 'Granola lesbian wimps! ...You people can go to hell! O.K.?"

— "Advertisements for Themselves", Wendy Steiner, The New York Times, November 1994

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

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