Producer(s)

Jean Donohue

Theme

Gay/TransGender

This one-hour documentary is the story of a soul’s journey, a hero’s quest for meaning and transcendence. It is a story of Robert Morgan and a town, Lexington, Kentucky, whose history of contradiction and denial in the end becomes the strength and value carrying them forward into the future. This hour looks at the untold stories of an unknown gay history and unique Southern underground culture existing from the American Civil War to the present. It is the story of a town in whose unique history lay the fertile ground for a 150 year lineage of drag queens, ‘southern belles,’ hustlers, gays, artists, and the Muse’s wild children.

This film is about people who spoke truth to power. They were highly creative, outrageous and effective artists who made radical decisions to bring their voice into public life through drag personas, experimental film, video art, guerilla theatre, photography and art. The characters in this documentary spoke from that underground’s moral center claiming their right of expression, refusing to be invisible while giving voice to 150 years of underground life.

Features stories and memories of Robert Morgan, Henry L. Faulkner, Jimmy Gordon, Bradley Pickleseimer, Tennessee Williams, Marion 'Mike' Broadus, James Herlihy, Rock Hudson.

This work-in-progress is produced and directed by Jean Donohue