Cheap Seats

3 Apr 2016

Mighty real tribute to Sylvester

Arts, Spoken Word

Join Dene and Sam in the Cheap Seats for one last time as we travel to San Francisco for a spoken-word tribute to Sylvester, the Queen of Disco.

Sylvester was an early founder of the black, cross-dressing and trans women group ‘The Discuotays’. Later, he joined the drag troupe ‘The Cockettes’ and went on to enjoy a successful solo singing career with the disco-hit (and JOY anthem!) ‘You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)’ in 1978.  Sylvester died in 1988 at the age of 41.

In 2013 the San Francisco Public Library hosted a night of poetry and readings about disco, dance and love in tribute to Sylvester, marking the 25th anniversary of his death.  Our host is Oakland poet Marvin K White, and he is joined by Jaime Cortez, Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano and Joel Barraquiel Tan, who is better known as Sister Baba Ganesh of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.

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3 Apr 2016

Mighty real tribute to Sylvester

Arts, Spoken Word

[caption id="attachment_263" align="alignright" width="300"] Sylvester by Michael Zagarisvia Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 2.0[/caption] Join Dene and Sam in the Cheap Seats for ...

29 Mar 2016

Transgender in Cleveland

Spoken Word

[caption id="attachment_254" align="alignright" width="300"] 'Downtown Cleveland Ohio'Image by Chris Gent via Creative Commons[/caption] Join Dene in the Cheap Seats in Cleveland, ...

13 Mar 2016

Queer poetry

Arts, Performing Arts, Sexuality, Spoken Word

[caption id="attachment_246" align="alignright" width="300"] Image by Dennis Hill via Creative Commons[/caption] Dene is back in the Cheap Seats for a night ...