Sluts A Go-Go 8mm Home Movies

These rare early 8mm Films from Greg Foss’s collection capture the Sluts A Go-Go at San Francisco Gay Freedom Day and having fun making silly short films in fantastics cheap drag. Digitized for Doris Fish Forever thanks to a generous donation by Gwyn Waters.

A photography enthusiast, Greg Foss captured many candid moments of this early drag history and allowed me to scan nearly 400 photos to the dorisfish.com archive, in addition to his 8mm film and massive Betamax collection . There are many more yet to share. Thank you, Greg!

Gay Freedom Day 1981 “Artists United in Drag”

The “Artists United in Drag” group at Gay Freedom Day 1981 led by Doris Fish on stilts, Tippi, Ginger Quest, and an unidentified queen. This was memorialized by Doris in a pastel drawing and photographed by Danny Nicoletta.

Gay Freedom Day 1980 (?) “I’ve Got a Gun”

The Sluts at Gay Freedom Day. This was memorialized in an unfinished painting in X’s collection.

Gay Freedom Day 1980 “Nachos”

The Sluts at Gay Freedom Day part two. Doris has nachos.

Sluts Glamour Night (3 Wigs)

A party at 422 Oak with Doris, X, and Freda on the turqouise lounge. As seen in photographs from the Ginger Quest collection.

Doris at The Mint

Doris exits 422 Oak and walks to The Mint on Market St for the Annual Tricycle Race, mingles with a fabulous crowd of hunky gay men, and rides a mechanical bull. Ginger Quest begged her to ride and she rode the longest of anyone.

Gay Freedom Day 1982 (?)

Doris exits 422 in blue alien drag and hangs out at Civic Center on Gay Freedom Day

Tippi’s Tragedy

A funeral for Tippi ends with a raid of her jewelry collection.

Dinner at 11

Doris, X, Tippi and Freida eat dinner in drag at 422

A Night of TV

Ginger Quest and a friend watch the Love Boat in drag on the tuirquoise lounge at 422 Oak St.

A Day On The Nile

Ginger Quest and friends frolic in drag at the Russian River