About
Allegra is a queer filmmaker, archivist, and storyteller who has spent over 40 years documenting LGBTQ+ life, culture, and resistance. Beginning at MTV News in the 1980s, they went on to work at Channel One, Current TV, and the Oprah Winfrey Network, consistently pushing to bring queer stories into mainstream media.
Across decades, Allegra has captured frontline moments—from the AIDS crisis and ACT UP protests to early transgender youth stories, the fight for marriage equality, and today’s evolving queer and trans movements. Their work forms a vast and deeply personal archive—what they call the “evidence of our living.”
Their recent sold-out multimedia performance, GET USED TO IT! transforms that archive into a live experience, blending storytelling and rare footage to connect past and present. The show reflects their ongoing mission: to bear witness, preserve history, and make visible the lives and struggles too often erased.
GET USED TO IT!
GET USED TO IT! is a one-person multimedia performance built from a life spent behind the camera—filming queer stories while trying to understand my own.
Created and performed by Allegra, the piece moves through decades of footage—from the AIDS crisis and early activism to marriage equality and today’s queer and trans communities—woven together with the stories of what was happening behind the scenes.
What begins as documentation becomes something more personal. These aren’t just the moments I captured—they’re the moments I was living through. The love, the loss, the confusion, the survival.
This archive is not just history—it is the evidence of our living. And we will not be erased.
Told from the perspective of someone who was there, GET USED TO IT! connects past and present—and reveals why I’m still here, still filming.
