Shelly's Leg

Shelly's Leg (2025)

June 24th, 20250h 16min

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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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