Midnight at the Palace: My Life as a Fabulous Cockette Pam Tent Paperback - 372 pages (23 December, 2004) Alyson Publications Inc.,U.S.; ISBN: 155583874X

THE INSIDE STORY OF THE RISE AND FALL OF THE COCKETTES BY ONE OF ITS FOUNDING MEMBERS
David Weissman and Bill Weber's documentary, The Cockettes, wowed audiences at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival and shone a bright new light on this legendary troupe. Now comes the definitive history of the group from a founding member.
This is the totally candid history of one of the most flamboyant ensembles of countercultural radicals ever to have hit the States. Arriving in San Francisco in 1969 from suburban Detroit, Pam Tent had dropped out of college to join the come-as-you-are party that was going on in her new hometown. The Cockettes were born one LSD-fuelled night when she and her friend, Hibiscus, commandeered the stage of the Palace and performed a chorus line dance to "Honky Tonk Woman" while dressed in cellophane hula skirts. In their two and a half years of existence they created 20 exuberantly chaotic shows that had titles like "Tinsel Tarts in a Hot Coma" and "Pearls over Shanghai".
Pam Tent's account recalls the heyday of the troupe, the inevitable fighting that accompanied fame and the reviews that were less than complimentary. The Cockettes gave their last performance in the autumn of 1972, but their unique burst of cultural experimentation and artistic outrageousness continues to influence the world of theatre, music, fashion, gay politics, gay spirituality and urban club life.

Paperback, Excellent condition, the marks you see on see cover are reflections as this book is bound with some sort of foil