By 1969, the Haight-Asbury district of San Francisco was the epicentre of countercultural life – a community where hippies could tune in, drop out, and reinvent themselves to their heart’s delight. With psychedelics as their guiding force, they rejected societal conventions to pursue the possibility of utopia on earth.
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“It was a real fluid scene,” says Fayette Hauser, author of The Cockettes: Acid Drag & Sexual Anarchy, 1969-1972 (Process Media). “When I got there it was dynamite and intense. Everyone was gorgeous. The body consciousness was in full bloom. Everyone was so sexy.”
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Hauser moved into a house on Lyon Street inhabited by a panoply of artists who started going out as a pack. Dressed to the nines, the group quickly drew attention from like-minded people. This included ‘Hibiscus’ (born George Edgerly Harris III), a native New Yorker who studied avant-garde theatre.
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