The Fabulous Cockettes • Offset lithograph poster, 1972
Founded in 1969 by William R. Schademan (1945-1979), the Cockettes were a popular and successful San Francisco-based performance troupe. Their overall ecclectic vision augmented by elaborate costumes, music, imagination combined with hippie psychedelia had catapulted them to local stardom and they were considered the darlings of the Bay City counterculture. Their fame led to a New York tour in 1971.









