"I Do Aerobics 4 the Gay Agenda" - 3" Button
3” in Diameter. Designed by Michella Rivera with handwriting from Sebastian.
From Emilia: “I met Sebastian through Jibz several years ago when I needed a new accountant. Jibz told me she had just gotten hooked up with a CPA who produced the Cockettes at the Palace in the 70s! He’s an activist and his office is covered in stickers and buttons. If you ask him, he will tell you about his time as a filmmaker and a “showman” and take you around the house to see some of photos and prints of the posters designed by his friend Todd Trexler. The work that they were all doing at that time was trailblazing and its influence on queer culture is felt to this day! Ever a gentleman, he was happy to contribute his handwriting to our gay-agenda-button, and we are so honored!”
Sebastian’s bio: Sebastian had his fifteen minutes of fame in the early nineteen seventies when he programmed a midnight film series, The Nocturnal Dream Shows, at the Pagoda Palace Theater in North Beach, a district in San Francisco. From that series emerged the flamboyant and outrageous group of drag performers, The Cockettes, who were the rage of the city for several years. While promoting and managing The Cockettes he also promoted Sylvester, the blues and disco singing sensation, and introduced to West Coast audiences, Divine, the star of John Waters films and Baltimore fame. While working with the Cockettes Sebastian wrote, produced and directed the cult classic, Tricia's Wedding, the Cockette's satirical version of Patricia Nixon's marriage to Ed Cox with an all-out, knockdown, dragged out LSD induced conclusion. In the 1970s Sebastian continued making short films and working sporadically in theater. He was born and grew up in Houston, Texas but has lived in New York, San Francisco, Yelapa, Mexico and currently makes his home in Los Angeles.
3” in Diameter. Designed by Michella Rivera with handwriting from Sebastian.
From Emilia: “I met Sebastian through Jibz several years ago when I needed a new accountant. Jibz told me she had just gotten hooked up with a CPA who produced the Cockettes at the Palace in the 70s! He’s an activist and his office is covered in stickers and buttons. If you ask him, he will tell you about his time as a filmmaker and a “showman” and take you around the house to see some of photos and prints of the posters designed by his friend Todd Trexler. The work that they were all doing at that time was trailblazing and its influence on queer culture is felt to this day! Ever a gentleman, he was happy to contribute his handwriting to our gay-agenda-button, and we are so honored!”
Sebastian’s bio: Sebastian had his fifteen minutes of fame in the early nineteen seventies when he programmed a midnight film series, The Nocturnal Dream Shows, at the Pagoda Palace Theater in North Beach, a district in San Francisco. From that series emerged the flamboyant and outrageous group of drag performers, The Cockettes, who were the rage of the city for several years. While promoting and managing The Cockettes he also promoted Sylvester, the blues and disco singing sensation, and introduced to West Coast audiences, Divine, the star of John Waters films and Baltimore fame. While working with the Cockettes Sebastian wrote, produced and directed the cult classic, Tricia's Wedding, the Cockette's satirical version of Patricia Nixon's marriage to Ed Cox with an all-out, knockdown, dragged out LSD induced conclusion. In the 1970s Sebastian continued making short films and working sporadically in theater. He was born and grew up in Houston, Texas but has lived in New York, San Francisco, Yelapa, Mexico and currently makes his home in Los Angeles.
3” in Diameter. Designed by Michella Rivera with handwriting from Sebastian.
From Emilia: “I met Sebastian through Jibz several years ago when I needed a new accountant. Jibz told me she had just gotten hooked up with a CPA who produced the Cockettes at the Palace in the 70s! He’s an activist and his office is covered in stickers and buttons. If you ask him, he will tell you about his time as a filmmaker and a “showman” and take you around the house to see some of photos and prints of the posters designed by his friend Todd Trexler. The work that they were all doing at that time was trailblazing and its influence on queer culture is felt to this day! Ever a gentleman, he was happy to contribute his handwriting to our gay-agenda-button, and we are so honored!”
Sebastian’s bio: Sebastian had his fifteen minutes of fame in the early nineteen seventies when he programmed a midnight film series, The Nocturnal Dream Shows, at the Pagoda Palace Theater in North Beach, a district in San Francisco. From that series emerged the flamboyant and outrageous group of drag performers, The Cockettes, who were the rage of the city for several years. While promoting and managing The Cockettes he also promoted Sylvester, the blues and disco singing sensation, and introduced to West Coast audiences, Divine, the star of John Waters films and Baltimore fame. While working with the Cockettes Sebastian wrote, produced and directed the cult classic, Tricia's Wedding, the Cockette's satirical version of Patricia Nixon's marriage to Ed Cox with an all-out, knockdown, dragged out LSD induced conclusion. In the 1970s Sebastian continued making short films and working sporadically in theater. He was born and grew up in Houston, Texas but has lived in New York, San Francisco, Yelapa, Mexico and currently makes his home in Los Angeles.