NYPress.com – By Gerry Visco
“Sex was like a handshake back then,” Rumi Missabu of the famed gender-bending performance troupe The Cockettes tells me, seated in my living room over a plate of pasta primavera. We were watching his interview in the German documentary called Free Love. That’s some warm handshake!
In those golden olden days, you didn’t need much money without health insurance and student loans to pay off. Rent was dirt cheap, and artsy types didn’t have to slave at 9 to 5 gigs. Hash was in the brownies, acid in the Kool-Aid, and everyone was feelin’ pretty damned groovy…