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Title: Joseph Castel video footage of José Sarria
Dates: 1996
Collection Number: 2023-48
Creator/Collector:
Castel, Joseph
Extent: 1 VHS tape
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: VHS tape featuring footage of gay activist and performer José Sarria’s 1992 performance of “Carmen” in Hayward, California,
interspersed with interview footage. Both the performance and interview footage were taken in 1992 by filmmaker and playwright
Joseph Castel, who would go on to produce the film Nelly Queen: The Life and Times of José Sarria (2020). In 1996, Castel
made this cut of the footage for the activist and theater director and actor Hank Tavera, with whom Castel was producing a
play about Sarria for the Mission Cultural Center in San Francisco.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright to material has not been transferred to the GLBT Historical Society. All requests for reproductions and/or permission
to publish or quote from material must be submitted in writing to the GLBT Historical Society Archivist. Permission for reproductions
and/or permission to publish or quote from material is given on behalf of the GLBT Historical Society as the owner of the
physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by
the researcher.
[Identification of item]. Joseph Castel video footage of José Sarria. Collection Number: 2023-48. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of Bladimir Maldonado, July 2023. The tape was originally from the collection of D. Kehau Wessel and Hank Tavera.
Scope and Content of Collection
VHS tape featuring footage of gay activist and performer José Sarria’s 1992 performance of “Carmen” in Hayward, California,
interspersed with interview footage. Both the performance and interview footage were taken in 1992 by filmmaker and playwright
Joseph Castel, who would go on to produce the film Nelly Queen: The Life and Times of José Sarria (2020). In 1996, Castel
made this cut of the footage for the activist and theater director and actor Hank Tavera, with whom Castel was producing a
play about Sarria for the Mission Cultural Center in San Francisco.
LGBTQ
Drag
Latinx people
Latinos
Sarria, José
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)