A night at the Sweet Gum Head: drag, drugs, disco, and Atlanta's gay revolution
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Published:
New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2021].
Format:
Book
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Desc:
xiv, 361 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781324007128, 1324007125, 9781324007128
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-343) and index.
Description
"An electric and intimate story of 1970s gay Atlanta through its bedazzling drag clubs and burgeoning rights activism. Coursing with a pumped-up beat, gay Atlanta was the South's mecca-a beacon for gays and lesbians growing up in its homophobic towns and cities. There, the Sweet Gum Head was the club for achieving drag stardom. Martin Padgett evokes the fantabulous disco decade by going deep into the lives of two men who shaped and were shaped by this city: John Greenwell, an Alabama runaway who found himself and his avocation performing as the exquisite Rachel Wells; and Bill Smith, who took to the streets and city hall to change antigay laws. Against this optimism for visibility and rights, gay people lived with daily police harassment and drug dealing and murder in their discos and drag clubs. Conducting interviews with many of the major figures and reading through deteriorating gay archives, Padgett expertly re-creates Atlanta from a time when a vibrant, new queer culture of drag and pride came into being"--,Provided by publisher.
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Padgett, M. (2021). A night at the Sweet Gum Head: drag, drugs, disco, and Atlanta's gay revolution. First edition. W. W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Padgett, Marty, 1969-. 2021. A Night At the Sweet Gum Head: Drag, Drugs, Disco, and Atlanta's Gay Revolution. W. W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Padgett, Marty, 1969-, A Night At the Sweet Gum Head: Drag, Drugs, Disco, and Atlanta's Gay Revolution. W. W. Norton & Company, 2021.
MLA Citation (style guide)Padgett, Marty. A Night At the Sweet Gum Head: Drag, Drugs, Disco, and Atlanta's Gay Revolution. First edition. W. W. Norton & Company, 2021.
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