As part of the Joy in People exhibition this is film about a British Glam wrestler (the son of a Welsh coal miner) who rose to fame in the 1970's. Street used wrestling to escape a life in the mines and reinvented himself later in his career becoming an  androgenous  'exotic' persona. His outrageous attire  and behaviour hinted at his being gay but never declared it openly and he later married his manager, Miss Linda. The image was a reaction to heckling he received from the crowd at a bout and enjoying the attention he received from playing a 'poof' , he became increasingly  outrageous. He bleached his hair and wore glitter make up, his trademark was applying make up to his opponents  when he had them pinned  down and disabled in the  ring.

 

The film  combines social history with camp images of wrestling,  and encapsulates the transition  Britain was experiencing, going  from being a centre of heavy industry to a producer of entertainment and services. 

 

​As a profesisonal wrestler it wasnt just fighting someone and bettering them, although that did appeal it was the dressing up to do it' Adrian Street