Drag Show, 1977.

Author: Kenna, Peter [and] Spears, Steve J.

Publisher: Woollahra: Currency Press.

Format: Softcover octavo with illustrated card wrappers, illustrated throughout in colour and b&w, 144pp, 23 x 19cm.

All things drag in 1970s Australia, with two plays published herein:

• Mates by Peter Kenna (Australian, 1930–1987), first performed in 1975; and
• The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin by Steve J. Spears (Australian, 1951–2007), first performed in 1976.

Also includes interviews with and essays by some of Australia’s out queers, at a time when police were still actively pursuing homosexual people under “public order” offences. These include Holly Brown, Rose Jackson, Serena Cullen, and Trina Taylor.

Illustrated with many wonderful images of performers at home, at Les Girls, with the Seahorse Club, and of these two ground-breaking Australian plays.

Old tape marks and previous owner’s name in ink to endpapers, light foxing to upper edge.