If you had never been too or even heard of DRAGSTRIP66, then you really do not know what you had been missing. Once a month this neighborhood Mexican restaurant in Silverlake, L.A. was transformed into a beloved destination for music, dance, fashion, and performance art. Much more than just a dance club, it was an irreverent and decadent celebration of self-expression, community, and imagination that invited everyone to participate in its misfit-inspired magic.
The club shut it’s doors for the last time 5years old just when it was celebrating its 20th Anniversary and now PHIL SCANLON and PAUL V. VITAGLIANO are making a ‘frockumentary’ that traces all the frivolity and very serious fun all those glorious days. Whilst you may have never made it through their hallowed doors, fierce drag queens, queer rockers, muscle boys, and celebrities all turned out to rock the dance floor, and the Midnight stage shows featured performance icons like Jackie Beat, Sharon Needles, Mink Stole, Sabrah Summers, Momma, Joey Arias, Varla Jean Merman, Kay Sedia and countless others.
They had this wonderful attitude ‘ dress like a mess and get in for less‘.
What this film will capture, thanks to some wonderful archival footage, is a look at the pre-social media, mid 1990’s and the compelling conditions that inspired a talented group of friends to build what would become an iconic venue of the gay community in Los Angeles.
They need help finishing this film, and we need this crucial glorious record of an important part of our gay history, that is even more poignant as the Club was such an essential element of the Silver Lake queer community.
Watch the 10-minute teaser below which we know will have you completely entranced, and then click on the link as you will so want to donate to get this wonderful frockumentary finished.
https://ds66thefrockumentary.com/Labels: 2018, culture, documentray, gay history, L.A.
