Getting in : NYC club flyers from the gay 1990s / David Kennerley ; foreward by Michael Musto ; contributing editor, Marc Zinaman.

  • Kennerley, David (Journalist)
Date:
[2023]
  • Books

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Also known as

Getting in : New York City club flyers from the gay nineteen nineties

Description

"[J]ournalist David Kennerley takes an electric visual stroll through New York's 1990s gay club scene. Not with photos, exactly, but through fliers -- more than 200 of them -- featuring polychromatic drag queens and come-hither hunks who enticed him to dance to Frankie Knuckles and Junior Vasquez remixes at popular nightclubs like Twilo and the Palladium, and parties like Jackie 60 and Lick It! 'People threw the fliers on the ground,' Kennerley, 63, said in a recent interview at a Midtown cafe. 'I thought, why would you throw this out? It's going to be a memento.' Kennerley assembled the book from his collection of over 1,200 fliers that he acquired from several sources -- promoters outside clubs, now-closed gay shops and bars, club mailing lists -- all before social media. A self-described "bit of a hoarder,' Kennerley considers the book an act of queer music history preservation." -- New York Times, Aug. 28, 2023.

Publication/Creation

New York, NY : DAKEN Press, [2023]

Physical description

232 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 23 x 27 cm

Edition

Second edition.

Notes

Includes maps and various timelines.

Contents

Getting huge: megaclubs & sweaty mayhem -- Getting into Roxy: drag queens & Chelsea boys -- Getting intimate: smaller clubs & frivolity -- Getting noticed: celebrities & wannabes -- Getting serious: activists & politicos -- Getting around: circuit parties & special events -- Getting off: back rooms & sex clubs.

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    Awaiting cataloguing for Wellcome Collection

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ISBN

  • 9798218175887