Dear Shaded Viewers,
If you’re in London on September 4, you won’t want to miss this special screening of two videos from the Glenn Belverio Archive—A Case for the Closet featuring Bruce LaBruce and Glennda and Camille Do Downtown featuring Camille Paglia—at Verdurin, 2 Clunbury Str, London N1 6TT. Space is limited! Tickets & info: https://verdur.in/event/downtown/
“If the city is the site of culture, downtown is the space of a permanent social war. In the early 1990s, the drag queen Glennda Orgasm (Glenn Belverio) documented the cultural clashes which animated New York City in a series of public access television programmes Glennda and Friends. The shows capture a maelstrom of activity – gays seeking conversion therapy, feminists denouncing other feminists, for example – not all of which was solely satirical.
With co-hosts that included the feminist critic icon Camille Paglia and the gay film director Bruce LaBruce – both already then notorious for their pronouncements on art, porn, and sex – Belverio created a record of a city where ideas had consequences and led people onto the proverbial barricades.


