Get out the glitter and rhinestones--the Cockettes are back!

Founding member Pam Tent (Sweet Pam) brings the flamboyant ensemble of counterculture radicals who decked out in drag and glitter for a series of legendary midnight musicals at San Francisco's Palace Theatre back to screaming, swishing, bumping, grinding, fighting, screwing, fabulous life in her memoir, Midnight at the Palace: My Life as a Fabulous Cockette.  

Based on her own writings from the time, as well as taped interviews with the Cockettes conducted by member Martin Worman, Pam Tent's Midnight at the Palace is an anecdote-rich blow-by-blow narrative of the Cockettes, complete with love affairs, cat fights, communal living, recreations of the most outrageous shows, including the original songs and dialogue, and 16 pages of dazzling photographs. 

In this richly detailed memoir, Pam Tent offers a fascinating glimpse into the tumultuous life of a liberation movement--both artistic and sexual--whose influence is still apparent in the worlds of theater, music, fashion, gay politics, gay spirituality, and urban club life.