Remembering Our Dead

Tara O'Hara

Tara was a drag queen. Sometime in 1983 (we don't know the date) she was found severely beaten in a ladies’ room in Tiergarten and taken to hospital, lying in a coma for weeks until the doctors pulled the plug.

Her male persona was raised by a Jehovah's Witness family in New Orleans. In the early 80s, he was working in Berlin as an English teacher.

When he discovered Romy Haag's drag club he came back again and again, and started wearing drag to the club. This lead to a part in the show and he gave up both teaching and the Jehovah's Witnesses.

She was in Rosa von Praunheim's 1983 film, Stadt Der Verlorenen Seelen (City of Lost Souls) along with Jayne County and Angie Stardust where they all play versions of themselves. Tara was murdered in 1983.

https://zagria.blogspot.com/2011/06/

https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/returning-to-the-city-of-lost-souls/

https://www.theskinny.co.uk/sexuality/deviance/remembering

http://www.jaynecounty.com/city.html

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0641342/

https://www.facebook.com/QueerNYC/videos/396843131162293

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10_JeZ7LEIRhvewTCoL5mVkH6MQJzf7fSXl4-P6QJ0v0/edit#gid=0

Report added: 24 Feb 2019. Last updated: 13 Jan 2021

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