A Night at the Sweet Gum Head: Drag, Drugs, Disco, and Atlanta's Gay Revolution by Padgett, Martin

A Night at the Sweet Gum Head: Drag, Drugs, Disco, and Atlanta's Gay Revolution

Coursing with a pumped-up beat, gay Atlanta was the South's mecca--a beacon for gays and lesbians growing...
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A Night at the Sweet Gum Head: Drag, Drugs, Disco, and Atlanta's Gay Revolution by Padgett, Martin

A Night at the Sweet Gum Head: Drag, Drugs, Disco, and Atlanta's Gay Revolution

CHF 30.72

A Night at the Sweet Gum Head: Drag, Drugs, Disco, and Atlanta's Gay Revolution

CHF 30.72
Author: Martin Padgett
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.



Author: Martin Padgett
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 06/01/2021
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.19h x 5.43w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781324007128


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/25/2021
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2021
Booklist 05/15/2021 pg. 6

About the Author
Padgett, Martin: - Martin Padgett has an MFA from the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and received a 2019 Lambda Literary Fellowship. He has written for Oxford American, Gravy, Details, and Business Week. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

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