Talk:Hibiscus (entertainer)

Needs Work

• I tagged it for cleanup since the article does provide some useful information, but definitely isn't up to Wikipedia standards. Crovax 20:18, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

• The information provided in the previous article was extremely one sided and not terribly informative. I've cleaned it up considerably. RWFanMS 18:24, 30 December 2005 (EST)

• I've sent an e-mail to the only known address of someone who knew the photographer. When I've received the information needed I will provide it here. The webaddress is as follows for the site that I've found with their e-mail address: http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Heights/2493/blairmemorial.htm --

RWFanMS 23:23, 30 December 2005 (EST)

• Still needs sourcing & some text edits. I added this to the LGBT wikiproject. --Lendorien 16:11, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Angels of Light Article needs to be created

The link "Angels of Light" connects to the page for the musical project of Michael Gira, formerly of Swans. This is incorrect - the band formed over a decade after Hibiscus died. I've removed the link for now. --—Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.156.207.252 (talk • contribs) 07:19, 5 May 2006

Flowers in rifle barrels photo

The assertion that Hibiscus (George Harris III) is the person in the "Flowers in rifle barrels" photo needs citations, as it is disputed by other anecdotal material on the Web stating that that person is actually someone named "Super-Joel" Tornabene. --IslandGyrl 02:42, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

I believe that was Hibiscus in that photo and was answered in the documentary by David Weisman (sp?) about the Cockettes. -- Benjiboi 11:18, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

There is a picture of another guy standing in front of a line of soldiers in front of the Pentagon with his arms outstretched who may be Hibiscus. I can't confirm that. But the guy in the sweater is 100% SuperJoel. I was the Yippie! office manager and ran housing in Chicago and I knew SuperJoel intimately.We were at many demos together. He has also been identified by his brother but disputed by people who didn't know him. That this is even a question is absurd. Its not like the Eisenstat VE day photo where the faces are obscured. If you need more people who can identify this picture as of SuperJoel I can supply them starting with Paul Krassner, Abe Peck and even Mark Rudd who hated him. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.237.91.47 (talk) 04:42, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

The Washington Post source cited in the article says "By most accounts, he was George Harris, ..." (emphasis added). It does not say the guy in the photo was definitely him. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 02:23, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

Place of death

I noticed the article is in category AIDS-related deaths in California. Actually, he died in New York. I managed to find a PDF of a contemporary article in The Body Politic via LGBT Life with Full Text database. One website claims that his was "the very first AIDS-related death to be reported by the New York Post." I plan to search for that and other contemporary sources, such as a March 1982 Advocate article by Mark Thompson titled "Hibiscus: An Errant Child of Paradise.", "Remembering Hibiscus" by David Hirsh, New York Native. 4/27/92, Issue 471, p20. 1p.; "Founder of Cockettes, Hibiscus, Dead of GRID," Advocate. 6/24/82, Issue 345, p12. 1/6p. --Larrybob (talk) 18:30, 27 March 2014 (UTC)