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Invitation, Fey-Way Studios, group show, First Anniversary, March 3, 1979, drawing
by Camille O’Grady. During the inclusivity of the Titanic 1970s, before the iceberg of
the gay gender wars, women and men mixed together in the art and life of SoMa. Rob-
ert Opel paired with Camille O’Grady. Steve McEachern of the Catacombs paired with
Cynthia Slater of the Society of Janus. Robert Mapplethorpe paired with Patti Smith,
but did not bring her to San Francisco where she would have been prima inter pares. The
artists listed were: “Camille O’Grady, Gill Mann, Tom, Jim Stewart, Jonni Marchant,
Lionel Biron, Rick Borg, Lou Rudolph, Gordon Pollock, Christina McCabe, Michael
Drew, Kent, Stryder, The Hun, Larry Hunt, Tom Hinde, Mark Kadota, Robert Opel.”

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