TY  - BOOK
AU  - Padgett,Marty
TI  - A night at the Sweet Gum Head: drag, drugs, disco, and Atlanta's gay revolution 
SN  - 9781324007128
AV  - HQ76.2.U52 G86 2021
U1  - 306.76/60922758B 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - W. W. Norton & Company
KW  - Greenwell, J. R.
KW  - Smith, William E.,
KW  - Gay men
KW  - Georgia
KW  - Biography
KW  - Female impersonators
KW  - Gay activists
KW  - Gay culture
KW  - Atlanta
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Gay liberation movement
KW  - Gays
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "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
ER  -