Cycle Sluts (70's Drag and Cabaret Troupe) durham north carolina gay bar it cracked open a door

it cracked open a door that had barely existed

Elizabeth Taylor — Poster Reprint (1980s)

it was a space where queer people of all kinds came to be loud

the Speed Queen name and logo became one of the most recognizable marks in American industrial design

Serpent 8 existed firmly outside the mainstream

Cycle Sluts (70's Drag and Cabaret Troupe) durham north carolina gay bar it cracked open a doorCycle Sluts 1970s Drag Cabaret Troupe Tee In the sexually liberated, genre bending nightlife of the 1970s, the Cycle Sluts werent just another drag act they were a revelation. Emerging out of New Yorks downtown performance scene, this troupe blended drag, punk attitude, risqu humor, and a fearless disregard for norms into something that felt equal parts cabaret, clown show, and queer avant garde spectacle. The group took its name with a wink and a