Glenn Belverio | Revisiting The 90s Queer Punk Art Movement | HITW 143

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On this episode I welcome New York-based journalist and editor Glenn Belverio to the podcast.

In our conversation we talk about the 90s queer punk and post-queer movements, gay activism, his collaborations with Camille Paglia and Canadian gay icon Bruce LaBruce, and Gen Z’s growing interest in 90s counter culture.

In the 1990s, Glenn was a filmmaker and performance artist, whose 1993 collaboration with Camille Paglia on the short film Glennda and Camille Do Downtown, gained international attention. The film played at the Sundance Film Festival and won first prize for best short documentary at the Chicago Underground Film Festival.

Throughout the 1990s Glenn appeared on his public access TV show as his drag alter ego Glennda Orgasm. Harvard scholar Laurence Senelick noted that Belverio's performances as Glennda represented a radical edge in gay culture at the time, "as the politically correct gay community turned its back on drag." Through these performances, Belverio was thought to be engaging in the kind of political and cultural critique that Paglia termed "drag queen feminism".

Lately, Glenn has been participating in exhibitions of the underground zine culture as part of the Copy Machine Manifestos exhibit that is currently running at the Vancouver Art Gallery, as well as hosting screenings of his 90s film and TV work.

Glenn's video archive: https://www.vdb.org/artists/glenn-belverio

Glennda & Camille Do Downtown: https://youtu.be/aE2014xRGMQ

East Village Drag Queens Get Ready: https://youtu.be/1XT4AS-qwPA

Copy Machine Manifestos: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/copy_machine_manifestos_artists_who_make_zines

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