Pat Bond’s Last Best Christmas Party
<p>Pat Bond was a pioneer lesbian performer. She began performing after her moving and funny interview in the 1977 documentary on gay people, <em>Word is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives. </em>She toured the country with her solo shows, beginning in 1979. For most members of the audience, it was the first time they had ever seen an out lesbian performer.</p>
<p><em>Gerty Gerty Gerty Stein Is Back Back Back</em> was her most popular performance. She played the legendary <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Stein" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Gertrude Stein</a> and recounted humorous stories of Gertrude’s life in Paris with her lover <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_B._Toklas" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Alice B. Toklas</a>. The show was a huge success and was televised repeatedly on PBS stations across the country. Her other well-known stage shows were <em>Conversations with Pat Bond</em>, centering mainly on reminiscences of her wild youth in San Francisco; <em>Murder in the WAC</em>, focusing on the Army’s lesbian purge in the late 1940; and <em>Lorena Hickock and Eleanor Roosevelt: A Love Story</em>. (Wikipedia) This last play inspired my own play on the subject of Hick and Eleanor.</p>
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