Jayne County
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Biography: Jayne County (born Wayne Rogers in 1947) is an American performer, musician and actress whose career has spanned several decades. Formerly known as Wayne County, she went on to be rock's first transsexual singer. Though she has never been a commercial success, she has been an influence on musicians such as David Bowie, The Ramones, Patti Smith, and Lou Reed. Pianist Jools Holland's first studio outing was with County on her single "Fuck Off". She is known for her outrageous stage antics and her songs "Are You Man Enough To Be A Woman", "Fuck Off", "Stuck On You," and "Night Time". County was previously an actress at Andy Warhol's The Factory.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 12, 1947
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Gender: Other
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Jubilee
Overview: Queen Elizabeth I visits late 1970s England to find a depressing landscape where life has changed since her time.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-01
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Queer Realities and Cultural Amnesia
Overview: A documentary about queer realities and cultural amnesia.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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The Punk Rock Movie
Overview: Documentary on the London punk-rock scene, circa '78
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-09
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Jayne County: Man Enough to Be a Woman
Overview: Veteran trannsexual performer Jayne County (formerly Wayne County) captured on film performing a storming full show with her backing group The Electric Chairs at Blackpool's "Holidays In The Sun" festival in 1996. Setlist: I Hate Today, Night Time, Wonder Woman, Paranoia Paradise, Bad In Bed, Are you a Boy or are you a Girl?, Man enough to be a Woman, Rock & Roll Resurrection, (If You Don't Want To F*ck Me) F*ck Off, Brainwashed.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-29
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Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC
Overview: Documentary about the legendary nightclub Max's Kansas City and the New York Rock Scene of the 70s.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-03-10
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Beyond Queer: Voices from Bohemia
Overview: Former Warhol Superstar and creator of the seminal sexual politics performance spectacular Bitch!Dyke!Faghag!Whore!, Penny Arcade, washed up on the shores of the Lower East Side of New York as a teenager in 1967. After decades in the Downtown art world, Penny’s personal relationships with dozens of outrageous characters, from the world famous to the fascinatingly obscure, led to the creation of the Lower East Side Biography Project, an oral history of New York’s Bohemian culture from the 1950s to the present. These half-hour biographies have broadcast weekly on Time Warner Manhattan Cable Television for 20 years. Beyond Queer is a feature documentary compiled from these television interviews.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-28
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Jayne County and the Electrick Queers: Imma Gonna Go to Hell When I Die
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-31
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Wig
Overview: Spotlighting the art of drag, and centered on the New York staple Wigstock, this documentary showcases the personalities and performances that inform the ways we understand queerness, art and identity today.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-04
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City of Lost Souls
Overview: A fictionalized account about the lurid lives of a group of eccentric cabaret artists who have come from America to Berlin looking for social acceptance and a place to give full reign to their creative nature.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-02-27
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The Blank Generation
Overview: The cream of the New York new wave/punk crop, filmed live at CBGB when the scene was just beginning. Includes performances by Patti Smith, Blondie, Television, the Ramones, Talking Heads, the Heartbreakers, the Shirts, Wayne County, the Marbles, the Dolls, Miamis, Harry Toledo, and the Tuff Darts (w/Robert Gordon).
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-22
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Wigstock: The Movie
Overview: The three-decade-old annual Manhattan gathering of drag queens and their fans is portrayed in this colorful documentary. The film concentrates on the spectacle of the event, providing abundant examples of the elaborate costumes, flamboyant wigs, and campy musical performances that characterize the event.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-09
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Jobriath A.D.
Overview: Called "The American Bowie," "The True Fairy of Rock & Roll" and "Hype of the Year," Jobriath's reign as the first openly gay rock star was brief and over by 1975. Now, 35 years later, "Jobriath A.D." spotlights his life, music, groundbreaking influence and the new generations of fans slowly re-discovering him.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-15
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Night Lunch
Overview: This is Poe and Král's first effort, shot on small-gauge stock, before their more well-known endeavor The Blank Generation (1976) came to be. A "DIY" portrait of the New York music scene, the film is a patchwork of footage of numerous rock acts performing live, at venues like Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, the dive bars of Greenwich Village and, of course, CBGB.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-09
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Nelson Sullivan's Video Diaries
Overview: From 1983 to 1989, New Yorker Nelson Sullivan captured more than 1,900 hours of video footage and saved most of it on VHS tapes, making a collection of 601 episodes documenting his everyday life in the East-Village, as well as following some flamboyant local icons like RuPaul, Sylvia Miles, and Phoebe Legere.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-07-03
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Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution
Overview: A documentary on Queercore, the cultural and social movement that began as an offshoot of punk and was distinguished by its discontent with society's disapproval of the gay, bisexual, lesbian and transgender communities.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-12
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Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
Overview: An East Village performance space fought against the Bowery homeless shelter who threatened to shut them down. Some of the most iconic figures in music have performed here.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-24
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Punk Revolution NYC
Overview: This documentary film traces the entire history of New York's punk movement; the VU years, the Warhol influence, the Dolls reign, and the handover of power to the bands who shared the sensibilities and attitude introduced to the city by Warhol and the Velvets a decade before. With the aid of performance footage, rare archive, exclusive interviews and some of the most exciting music ever recorded, this programme offers an experience of these events second only to having lived through them. Features new interviews with Richard Hell, Suicide's Alan Vega, Blondie's Gary Valentine and many more.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-19
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Beautiful Darling
Overview: James Rasin's documentary “Beautiful Darling” honors American Transgender actress and best-known Warhol Superstar, Candy Darling, and her all-too-brief life and career, with a combination of current and vintage interview material, rarely seen archival photos and footage, and extracts from Darling's movies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-02
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The Fuzztones vs the World
Overview: This film chronicles the highs and lows of an extraordinary band, The Fuzztones whose career spans over 40 years of Garage Rock. Formed in New York City in 1980, their redefining brand of Psychedelic Punk spawned an exciting new scene.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-02-06
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