'Bloolips in The Island of Lost Shoes' leaflet

S/PTC/3/2/3

October 1995

A5 sheet, full colour photo on one side, black and white text on blue, grey and green on reverse. Publicity leaflet for Bloolips' ("the world's best and only gay music hall clown troupe") production "The Island of Lost Shoes" 31st October - 2nd December at the Drill Hall, Chenies Street, WC1. Bloolips was founded by Bette Bourne (born Peter Boune) in 1977 as a gay theatre/performance art group. It used and developed a type of male drag or 'gender-bending' cross-dressing that grew out of the cross-dressing developed by drag gay within the London Gay Liberation Front in the early 1970's. The company ceased performing in the early 2000's.

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