CHERRY VANILLA, TONY ZANETTA: QUEERCORE PODCAST

THEATER OF THE RIDICULOUS, PERFORMER

Andy Warhol's Pork playbill featuring Cherry Vanilla (center) by unknown, 1971.

In this episode you'll hear the unedited audio recording of a Zoom webinar called No Intermission, which took place on March 29, 2026, featuring the legendary underground artists, Cherry Vanilla and Tony Zanetta, and their reflections on the powerful convergence of queer liberation, the avant-garde theater scene, and rock and roll that occurred in New York and London during the latter half of the 1960s and into the early 1970s—including the Theatre of the Ridiculous, Andy Warhol's Factory, and the early development of David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust character. The result is a vibrant account of how queerness expressed itself through confrontation, community, and creativity, as well as through art, sexual expression, and the challenge of societal norms, with all of these acts often seen as one radical action.

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