Bloolips

London, UK

Founded in 1977 by Bette Bourne, was a cabaret and drag troupe who performed internationally for 25 years.  Bloolips came out of the radical queens group of the Gay Liberation Front 1970-1974, a collective of pro-feminist men from the GLF Notting Hill drag queen commune that included Bette Bourne, Gretel Feather, and Lavinia Co-op.  Most of Bloolips’ shows were written by playwright Jon Taylor with titles such as Lust in Space, Sticky Buns and The Ugly Duckling. The troupe won an Obie Award (Off Broadway Theater Award) for the New York production of Lust in Space. In 2019, ‘Bloolips and Radical Drag,' an exhibition at Platform Southwark London, celebrated the legacy of the radical drag theatre company. 

Watch Taylor’s Interview with the Bloolips

Photo Credit:
Bloolips, Lust in Space, 1980, publicity photo.
Courtesy: Bloolips Archive, Bishopsgate Institute, London