She is a 66-year-old self-proclaimed all-American Jewish lesbian folk singer and cardboard cobbler, a queer punk icon who forged her feminist voice before most riot grrrls were born. “Queercore was a ...

“The metaphor of the closet for queers has been hiding—being ‘in the closet,'” says Phranc. “But the closet is also a place to keep things, a place of safety. It’s a place where you get dressed, you ...

A butch lesbian who came out early and with gusto; a singer/songwriter who started out a punk legend but embraced a more progressive folk; a sculptor with a gift for transforming paper and cardboard ...

Multi-media installation, The Butch Closet by Phranc, opens in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery Thursday night. Ellie Vice/Daily. Buy this photo. The multi-media exhibit, which opened Thursday ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Phranc holds a life-size cardboard guitar at Craig Krull Gallery in Santa Monica, where her show "The Butch Closet" has recently ...

Phranc holds a life-size cardboard guitar at Craig Krull Gallery in Santa Monica, where her show "The Butch Closet" has recently opened. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) She is a 66-year-old ...