Did you miss the in-person performances of OUT of Site: Haight Ashbury last summer? Don’t worry!

The recording of the full performance is captured as a digital documentary so we can keep sharing it.

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 Experience the prismatic solo performance of award-winning actor Tina D’Elia as she takes to the secret queer underground you've never seen in SF’s most iconic neighborhood!

OUT of Site, San Francisco's performance-driven queer history tour, returned for a dazzling third edition starring award-winning stage, television and film actor Tina D'Elia. Following the sold-out tours of North Beach and South of Market, this year's edition reveals the untold queer history of the neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury, a name synonymous worldwide with the hippie counterculture that emerged here in the 1960s.

Performing two key figures from the era, D'Elia steers audiences on a journey from the historic Doolan-Larson Building at Haight and Ashbury Streets to the erotic underground of Buena Vista Park to the former site of the notorious Haight Theater and several other points in between.

“The scenes, written by local playwright Michelle Carter, cover lots of ground and are at various times funny, interactive and haunting.” —SF Examiner

“Leading us from the corner of Haight Ashbury on a walking tour that takes us into Golden Gate Park, Tina D'Elia magically transports us back in time until we are actually experiencing our own small hippie happening among the trees.”
—Bay Area Reporter

Meet D'Elia as Peggy Caserta, a successful out lesbian business owner on Haight Street and inventor of bell bottom jeans, outfitting rock's new royalty like the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane.

She was also Janis Joplin's laid-back lesbian lover, later scapegoated as the cause of Joplin's untimely death.

Watch the same performer re-emerge as George Harris III aka Hibiscus, the original flower power child who would go on to found the psychedelic pansexual theater collective known as the Cockettes.

Bedecked in thrift-store finery, decaying flowers and dripping with glitter, Hibiscus left a lasting mark that's visible today across the worlds of drag, theater, music and fashion. 

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Featuring Tina D’Elia

Come get lost in the past! It’s the only way OUT!

Photos by Robbie Sweeny, featuring Tina D'Elia and Seth Eisen

Learn more about our Visual Designer’s process of creating our store front display!

Read more about the history that influenced our work by visiting the DEEP DIVE blog!

DEEP DIVE is a series of blog posts, dialogues, wonderings, and archival research into the history & culture of the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco in the 1960s and 1970s, and the queer & counterculture communities that flourished there. This series is the product of nearly 6 months of research and conversations, including oral history interviews & correspondences with Joey Cain, Michael Sumner, David Weissman, Jim Siegel, Fayette Hauser, Peggy Casserta, and Mike Caffee; books such as Smash the Church, Smash the State! The Early Years of Gay Liberation (Tommi Avicolli Mecca); Flower Power Man (Mary Lou Harris, Jayne Anne Harris, Eloise Harris); I Ran Into Some Trouble (Peggy Casserta); films such as The Cockettes (David Weissman, 2002) and Pickup’s Tricks (Gregory Pickup, 1973); and many more organizations, friends, and resources too numerous to name.

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THANK YOU TO OUR INDIVIDUAL DONORS!

This project could not happen without the support of our greater Bay Area community. Click below to make a tax-deductible donation that helps us pay our artists a living wage and provide low cost tickets to those with financial barriers.

THANK YOU TO OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS:

OUT of Site: Haight-Ashbury is a project of CounterPulse’s House Artist Program.

OUT of Site began as a collaboration with Shaping San Francisco, a participatory community history project documenting and archiving overlooked stories and memories of San Francisco. Shaping San Francisco's public programming includes a FREE Public Talks Series, as well as bicycle and walking tours. A digital archive operating since 1998, Foundsf.org is an open source online historical resource for information on our City's past.

OUT of Site is made possible through generous support of our community partner San Francisco Heritage and its Doolan-Larson Residence and Storefronts, a National Treasure and city landmark at the corner of Haight-Ashbury.

We are so thankful for our partnership with the Haight Street Voice, a hyper-local community journal with a global perspective, and their gracious welcoming of OUT of Site into the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood!

THANK YOU TO OUR FUNDERS:

This production is supported in part by the California Arts Council- a state agency (Learn more at www.arts.ca.gov), the Fleishhacker Foundation, San Francisco Grants for the Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission, CA$H | Theatre- a grant program of Theatre Bay Area, the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, and the Zellerbach Family Foundation

OUT of Site Haight-Ashbury takes place on the traditional, unceded territory of the (Ramaytush Ohlone) people. We recognize their sovereignty, as there are no treaties on these lands, and we are dedicated to building a new relationship between our nations based on respect and consent.

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