Jayne County
Birthday: 1947-02-12
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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.
Movies
Jubilee
Queen Elizabeth I visits late 1970s England to find a depressing landscape where life has changed si...
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Queer Realities and Cultural Amnesia
A documentary about queer realities and cultural amnesia....
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Jayne County: Man Enough to Be a Woman
Veteran trannsexual performer Jayne County (formerly Wayne County) captured on film performing a sto...
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Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC
Documentary about the legendary nightclub Max's Kansas City and the New York Rock Scene of the 70s....
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Beyond Queer: Voices from Bohemia
Former Warhol Superstar and creator of the seminal sexual politics performance spectacular Bitch!Dyk...
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Wig
Spotlighting the art of drag, and centered on the New York staple Wigstock, this documentary showcas...
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City of Lost Souls
A fictionalized account about the lurid lives of a group of eccentric cabaret artists who have come ...
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The Blank Generation
The cream of the New York new wave/punk crop, filmed live at CBGB when the scene was just beginning....
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Wigstock: The Movie
The three-decade-old annual Manhattan gathering of drag queens and their fans is portrayed in this c...
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Jobriath A.D.
Called "The American Bowie," "The True Fairy of Rock & Roll" and "Hype of the Year," Jobriath's ...
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Night Lunch
This is Poe and Král's first effort, shot on small-gauge stock, before their more well-known endeavo...
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Nelson Sullivan's Video Diaries
From 1983 to 1989, New Yorker Nelson Sullivan captured more than 1,900 hours of video footage and sa...
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Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution
A documentary on Queercore, the cultural and social movement that began as an offshoot of punk and w...
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Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
An East Village performance space fought against the Bowery homeless shelter who threatened to shut ...
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Punk Revolution NYC
This documentary film traces the entire history of New York's punk movement; the VU years, the Warho...
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Beautiful Darling
James Rasin's documentary “Beautiful Darling” honors American Transgender actress and best-known War...
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The Fuzztones vs the World
This film chronicles the highs and lows of an extraordinary band, The Fuzztones whose career spans o...
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Once Upon a Time in New York: the Birth of Hip Hop, Disco and Punk
How the squalid streets of '70s New York gave birth to music that would go on to conquer the world -...
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Born to Lose: The Last Rock and Roll Movie
Veteran documentary filmmaker and hipster Lech Kowalski creates this film about his friend and hard-...
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