Shelly's Leg

Original title: Shelly's Leg

16 minutes • 2025 • 10.0 Score

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.

Wes Hurley

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