O Solo Homo: The New Queer Performance

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Author: Holly Hughes

ISBN-10: 0802135706

ISBN-13: 9780802135704

Category: American Literature Anthologies

The First Lady of queer performance joins forces with a theater critic and professor to presents this assemblage of the best solo work by some of the most acclaimed and influential artists in the field of gay performance art.

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O Solo Homo is a diverse, definitive, and hugely entertaining collection representing the cutting edge of queer solo performance. The pieces in O Solo Homo touch nerves that run deep — from sex, politics, community, and health to the struggles and joys of family, friends, and lovers. Peggy Shaw, of Split Britches, revisits how she learned to be butch. The late Ron Vawter, of the Wooster Group, juxtaposes the lives of two very different men who died of AIDS: diva filmmaker Jack Smith and Nixon crony Roy Cohn. Tim Miller, one of the NEA Four, surveys the landscape of gay desire before and after the advent of AIDS. And Carmelita Tropicana, the “National Songbird of Cuba,” makes an unforgettable, hilarious return to Havana.

AcknowledgmentsO Solo Homo: An Introductory Conversation1Milk of Amnesia - Leche de Amnesia17Naked Breath49My Left Breast93skin & ornaments121You're just Like My Father175I Remember Mapa199Virtually Yours229Without Skin or Breathlessness279Downtown313Attachments349Hello (Sex) Kitty: Mad Asian Bitch on Wheels375Clit Notes411Roy Cohn/Jack Smith441