“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 ...

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, the self-styled “All-American Jewish Lesbian Folksinger,” is known to many as a pioneering punk rocker in the '80s, then a progressive acoustic bard with a unique knack for infusing a gruff ...

On Feb. 10 from 4-5:30 p.m., the University of Michigan Institute of Research on Women and Gender is presenting the lecture "Phranc and the Art of the Cardboard Cobbler." The event will feature ...

Streaming platforms for Phranc: The Butch Closet haven’t been announced yet. Check back soon for updates on where you can watch it online.

When Santa Monica’s resident queerdo Phranc submitted her newest multimedia performance piece to this year’s fifth annual OUTsider Festival, she felt pretty confident. Still, she was surprised by ...

Incongruity of seeing this 1950s sitcom-dad-styled androgyne hawking kitchenware to housewives -- and very successfully, too -- sustains amusing Angeleno Phranc's docu featurette "Lifetime Guarantee." ...

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 ...

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 ...