Pickups Tricks (1973)

Pickups Tricks is a beat documentary of Hibiscus and the Cockettes who were pioneers of San Franciscos underground queer theater in the early 70s It is a multifarious blend of sexual anarchy a raucous and unscripted mix of liberation and elation as rough and spirited as the lifestyle that created it The film profiles Hibiscus founding member of the Cockettes the psychedelic drag queens that performed midnight musicals at the Palace Theater in San Francisco The film includes a rare screen appearance of Allen Ginsberg cleanshaven and costumed in acute drag as a Yiddishe Mama with a paintedon third eye pickupstrickscom