![]() ![]() His most popular attire was a leopard thong and high-heeled shoes. As an Austin fixture Ĭochran was typically seen around 6th Street and Congress during business hours, frequently wearing women's clothing. He spent nine months in the Naval Reserve in 1974–75, worked for Safeway grocery stores in Seattle, skinned road-kill in Colorado and tanned the hides, worked as a disc jockey near Steamboat Springs, Colorado, lived in a converted bookmobile in Shreveport, Louisiana, Tampa, Florida, and Atlanta, and then took a year to ride a tricycle to Austin in January 1996. ![]() In his 30s, he suffered a month long coma after a head injury, in which he lost his stutter. Cochran told the Austin American-Statesman that he was briefly married from 1985 to 1986. He lived in the Pacific Northwest and at one time worked as a truck driver frequently traveling up and down the West Coast. He attended Florida State University in Tallahassee on an academic scholarship, but never graduated. He had a rocky childhood, with his father verbally and sexually abusing him. ![]() He also has a cousin named Gabriel Lujan who lives in Round Rock, Texas. He was the third of six children (three boys and three girls) born to Albert and Enid (née Atwater) Cochran, both now deceased, and had an identical twin brother who died at birth. Early life Ĭochran was born on June 24, 1951, and raised in the Redland district of Homestead, Florida. Ĭochran was considered the man who personified " Keep Austin Weird". Retrieved November 26, 2013.Albert Leslie Cochran (June 24, 1951 – March 8, 2012) was an American homeless man, peace activist, cross-dresser, urban outdoorsman, and outspoken critic of police treatment of the homeless. "It's Weird Social Science: Thesis on Austin now a book". Weird City: Sense of Place and Creative Resistance in Austin, Texas. " 'The Keep' movement catches on in Indy". "Group to celebrate Keeping Louisville Weird". "Austin Journal "Keep Austin Weird" Originator Remembered for Choosing Community Over Capital".
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