Click here for a video partly taken in Mansfield Traquair Church
(close to the Gay and Lesbian Centre on Broughton Street) in 1996. The
Phoebe Traquair murals are very colourful, though they have since faded
somewhat.
According to film-maker David Hutchison:
Subie Coleman is singing at start. She used to work in the old Blue Moon.
The guy playing the minister is a gay man called Declan Docherty who
used to go to Joy a lot and was a fashion designer.
The guy in the pierrot-like outfit was called Graham. I think he might have
used name Amanda Lingamaon as a stage name but that might be wrong.
Felica Hunt was the drag name of an Italian guy in the Cabaret-type outfit
who worked at the Blue Moon. Kissing girls Lois and Sam were lesbians
that used to go to the Blue Moon. I think they were part of a girl group
called The Wild Women of Wongo. The plastic arch and backgrounds of
Phoebe Traquair murals were filmed in the church .
I went to Paris with Subie for a party and filmed outside around the
Moulin Rouge, etc. Graham and the girls were filmed at an Andriani
Paranay fashion show at the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh. Declan was
filmed in a green screen at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in
Dundee. The green plastic mannequin was a sculpture I called
MacRanda (after Carmen Miranda) which was shown in the Blue Moon
and also at Café Graffiti(Mansfield Church). Hairdresser George Patterson
also showed it in his fashion show.
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