Glennda and Camille Do Downtown
1993 | 00:29:00 | United States | English | Color | Mono | 4:3 | Hi8 video
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles
Tags: Activism, Comedy, Gender, LGBTQ, Performance, Politics, Television, TV production


In this video, Glennda Orgasm and social critic Camille Paglia walk the streets of downtown Manhattan and discuss the status of mainstream feminism in the early 1990s. They visit the Stonewall Inn, Washington Square Park, and a gay bookstore, and confront a group of anti-pornography protesters.
An episode of Glennda and Friends, hosted by Glennda Orgasm and Camille Paglia. Featuring The Centaurians, Brian Roach, and Rennard Snowden.
"In the film Glennda and Camille Do Downtown, Ms. Paglia and the drag queen Glennda Orgasm face down anti-pornography demonstrators, shouting, 'Granola lesbian wimps! ...You people can go to hell! O.K.?"
— "Advertisements for Themselves", Wendy Steiner, The New York Times, November 1994
Prizes + Awards
Best Short Documentary, Chicago Underground Film Festival, 1994
Exhibitions + Festivals
Sundance Film Festival, 1994