‘Barbara Forever’ Won’t Let You Forget

After listening to a critique of the Miss America pageant on a public radio station, Barbara Hammer declared herself a feminist. Then she left her husband. Then she became a lesbian. This was the early 1970s, and it wasn’t long before someone gifted baby gay Hammer a Super-8 and she commenced pointing it—lovingly, relentlessly—at every human crease and crevice in her life. Around this time, Hammer