Jackie Curtis

John Holder Jr. (born February 19, 1947; died May 15, 1985), better known as Jackie Curtis, was a famous transgendered film star, poet and playwright. Curtis was born in New York City to John Holder, Sr. and Italian-American Jenevive Uglialoro, and later died there of a drug overdose. He spent part of his life living and performing as a man (sometimes adopting a James Dean persona) and sometimes as a woman. While living and performing in drag, she would typically wear lipstick, glitter around the eyes and in his frizzed-out red hair, and a dress, frequently ripped and torn, as were her stockings. This unique style, a combination of trash and glamour which Curtis pioneered in the late 1960's when frequenting such high profile nightclubs as Max's Kansas City, has prompted assertions that Jackie inspired the "Glitter rock" or "Glam Rock" persona of the 1970s.

Plays

• Glamour, Glory and Gold (1967)
• Lucky Wonderful
• Amerika Cleopatra (1968)
• Heaven Grand In Amber Orbit (1970)
• Femme Fatale
• Vain Victory: Vicissitudes of the Damned (1971)
• I Died Yesterday (1983)
• Champagne (1985)