Hibiscus (born George Edgerly Harris III; September 6, 1949 â€" May 6,
1982) was an American actor and performance artist. He was the founder
of the psychedelic gay liberation theater collective known as the
Cockettes in early 1970s San Francisco.Harris was born in Bronxville,
New York in 1949 to George Harris II and Ann M. Harris. The family
moved to Clearwater Beach, Florida. The Harris parents became
interested in theater and began performing with a local community
theater called "The Little Theater". George and his siblings started a
children's theater troupe, the El Dorado Players. In 1964, the family
moved to New York, and Harris appeared in commercials, television, and
in 1966 in an Off Broadway play titled Peace Creeps by John Wolfson
with Al Pacino and James Earl Jones.In 1967, George Harris III and his
father George Harris II appeared in New York in the Off-Off-Broadway
play Gorilla Queen by Ronald Tavel.Hibiscus (then George Harris)
joined the October 21, 1967 anti-war march on the Pentagon (in order
to "levitate" it) and appears in the historic photograph of that
event, Flower Power; he was the turtleneck sweater-wearing protester
photographed putting flowers into the gun barrels of the MPs.
1982) was an American actor and performance artist. He was the founder
of the psychedelic gay liberation theater collective known as the
Cockettes in early 1970s San Francisco.Harris was born in Bronxville,
New York in 1949 to George Harris II and Ann M. Harris. The family
moved to Clearwater Beach, Florida. The Harris parents became
interested in theater and began performing with a local community
theater called "The Little Theater". George and his siblings started a
children's theater troupe, the El Dorado Players. In 1964, the family
moved to New York, and Harris appeared in commercials, television, and
in 1966 in an Off Broadway play titled Peace Creeps by John Wolfson
with Al Pacino and James Earl Jones.In 1967, George Harris III and his
father George Harris II appeared in New York in the Off-Off-Broadway
play Gorilla Queen by Ronald Tavel.Hibiscus (then George Harris)
joined the October 21, 1967 anti-war march on the Pentagon (in order
to "levitate" it) and appears in the historic photograph of that
event, Flower Power; he was the turtleneck sweater-wearing protester
photographed putting flowers into the gun barrels of the MPs.
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