On the Campaign Trail with Joan Jett Blakk + Fast Trip, Long Drop

Examine the depths of queer identity in this one-night-only program featuring an episode of The Brenda and Glennda Show and Gregg Bordowitz’s deeply personal documentary.

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On the Campaign Trail with Joan Jett Blakk (1992)
Dir. Glenn Belverio
29min

In this episode of The Brenda and Glennda Show, the guerilla-drag public access talk show, host Glennda Orgasm meets up with guest co-host Joan Jett Blakk to discuss Blakk’s 1992 presidential run outside the Democratic National Convention in Manhattan. The pair dive into topics including the police state, weaknesses of the two-party political system, feminism, and political elitism.

Fast Trip, Long Drop (1993)
Dir. Gregg Bordowitz
54min

In the spring of 1988, video-maker and activist Gregg Bordowitz tested HIV-antibody positive, prompting him to quit drinking and taking drugs, and to finally come out to his parents as gay. This imaginative autobiographical documentary began as an inquiry into these events and the cultural climate surrounding them, but morphed when, while writing the film, a close friend was diagnosed with breast cancer and Bordowitz’s grandparents were killed in a car accident. The cumulative impact of these events challenged his sense of identity, the way he understood his own diagnosis, and the relationship between illness and history.

Featuring an introduction by writer Glenn Belverio preceding the November 17 screening.