Shelly's Leg (2025)
• June 24th, 2025 • 0h 16min
Documentary
Overview
In 1970, an eccentric young stripper named Shelly Baumann loses her leg in a freak parade canon accident, then uses her settlement money to open 'Shelly's Leg' disco - one of the nation's first and most consequential openly gay spaces.
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