“I knew little about the art world then I still am not really very interested,” Bidgood says.
“When I made my entrance, all dolled up in glitter and soft, fat ostrich feathers, I imagined I was working the boards at the Ziegfeld Theatre playing to the balcony!”ĭuring the late 50s, he attended the Parsons School of Design in Greenwich Village, and began designing costumes for society balls. “I always wanted to be on the Broadway stage,” Bidgood recalls.
It was fast and it was more exciting than your second orgasm.”īidgood got his start performing as Terri Howe at Club 82, an East Village drag club, when it was illegal for men and women to cross dress on any occasion other than Halloween. “New York was exactly as it appeared to be in MGM musicals. “The city was so clean, so bright and shiny then, the concrete sidewalks seemed embedded with glitter – they actually shimmered in the summer sun like they were like studded with tiny diamonds,” Bidgood tells Another Man.
