An Archives Onstage panel featuring Hugh Ryan, David Getsy, Joe Jeffreys, and others, and moderated by Helen Shaw.

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Describing themselves as “revolutionaries in action,” Hot Peaches made unabashedly queer, political theatre following the Stonewall Riots in the early 1970s and continuing into the early 2000s—working through the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and culture wars in the 90s. Through it all, the group demonstrated the co-constitutive resilience of queer art and life, and their archives, held in NYU Special Collections, offer deeply relevant and timely insights toward collaborative queer survival in hostile times. Moderated by Helen Shaw and featuring David Getsy, Joe Jeffreys, Hugh Ryan, and others, this panel will explore the legacy and ongoing importance of the Peaches and of downtown queer performance more broadly, from post-Stonewall to the present, asking: What is the potential of queer and trans performance during times of political crisis?

This discussion is presented as part of Archives Onstage: Hot Peaches—a semester-long celebration of the ongoing impact of the group, with events across campus, starting in September.

NYU's "Archives Onstage," an interdisciplinary, cross-campus series, aims to activate the NYU Division of Libraries’ significant performing arts-related archival holdings in relation to contemporary art and scholarship on campus. Using panels, talks, performance and more, the series situates these archives as integral to the past, present, and future lives of the university and its neighboring downtown artistic communities. Co-sponsored by NYU Libraries and NYU Skirball.

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