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+ | Spiers interviewed. CBC description: "Exuberant cross-dressers, gay-baiting hecklers and glamorous female impersonators: they're all part of the scene at Toronto's Club Manatee on Halloween night in the early 1970s. The unlicensed gay dance club hosts a popular drag show every Halloween, attracting both friendly and hostile crowds. In this CBC-TV film from 1973, vignettes from the street outside are interspersed with scenes of three men and a woman dressing up for the evening – the men in women's clothes and makeup, the woman with a man's hat and pencil moustache. Warning: This item contains offensive language." | ||
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Revision as of 08:11, 4 March 2011
Obituary of Herbert Spiers under construction, along with a list of representative photographs (dated, if possible), and an alphabetical bibliography of works about and by Spiers, and a Timeline of his life.
Obituary
To be written
Basic Info:
- Born: November 8, 1945, Columbus, Ohio
- Died: March 2, 2011, 11:35 pm, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City
- Surviving Partner: Joe Daniel
- Surviving Relatives:
Bibliography
CBC Digital Archives: "Drag queens on Halloween". Broadcast Date: Oct. 30, 1973
- Spiers interviewed. CBC description: "Exuberant cross-dressers, gay-baiting hecklers and glamorous female impersonators: they're all part of the scene at Toronto's Club Manatee on Halloween night in the early 1970s. The unlicensed gay dance club hosts a popular drag show every Halloween, attracting both friendly and hostile crowds. In this CBC-TV film from 1973, vignettes from the street outside are interspersed with scenes of three men and a woman dressing up for the evening – the men in women's clothes and makeup, the woman with a man's hat and pencil moustache. Warning: This item contains offensive language."
Spiers, Herb. Ph.D. Thesis.
Spiers, Herb. Photograph. Cover, The Body Politic (Toronto), <pub data, page?>
Spiers, Herb. Photograph naked. The Body Politic (Toronto) <pub data, inside page? >
Timeline
1945, November 8: Born, Columbus, Ohio
1973, October 30: CBC Digital Archives: "Drag queens on Halloween". Broadcast Date: Oct. 30, 1973 Spiers interviewed. CBC description: "Exuberant cross-dressers, gay-baiting hecklers and glamorous female impersonators: they're all part of the scene at Toronto's Club Manatee on Halloween night in the early 1970s. The unlicensed gay dance club hosts a popular drag show every Halloween, attracting both friendly and hostile crowds. In this CBC-TV film from 1973, vignettes from the street outside are interspersed with scenes of three men and a woman dressing up for the evening – the men in women's clothes and makeup, the woman with a man's hat and pencil moustache. Warning: This item contains offensive language."
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