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Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 19 | dG1fdV9kUm1aQnc2d1E
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00:00Hi, I'm Maxine.
00:05Before the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
00:08There's Divine saying,
00:10Crab on your anus means you're loved and brought down the house.
00:13Before Watergate.
00:15Drop those trousers.
00:16San Francisco gave birth.
00:19To the legendary.
00:21It's so tacky.
00:22Magical.
00:23Would you like to go up or down?
00:26Musical.
00:27Immortals of dazzling glamour and artistry.
00:30The Cockettes.
00:32The notorious group of performers
00:34who created a social and sexual revolution
00:38that changed America forever.
00:40Yay!
00:42We had the Cockette House.
00:44That was our family.
00:45I thought we were the most beautiful, creative people in the city.
00:51This was the dream.
00:53We were on a spiritual quest.
00:54This was what we were born to do.
00:56We were born to change everything.
00:58We really did believe there'd be a revolution any minute.
01:04We were playing to packed houses.
01:06And that put us into a whole new ball game.
01:09And we were going to New York.
01:11Everybody who was in New York at that time was there.
01:14Andy Warhol was there.
01:16And John Lennon.
01:19Critics are calling the Cockettes
01:21the best time I had at the movies at Sundance.
01:24Inspiring.
01:26Charming.
01:27Exuberant.
01:28And wildly entertaining.
01:31The Cockettes.
01:33It was complete sexual anarchy.
01:38Which is always a wonderful thing.
01:41We are the Cockettes.
01:44We love you.
01:44We love you.
01:45We are the反wings.
01:46We're the
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