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BY EILEEN SHAPIROCELEBRITY CORRESPONDENTTHE QThe Newest New York Nightlife PhenomenonNew York City’s newest nightlife phenomenon promises to bean immersive, innovative and exciting adventure. It’s spawnedfrom the need for the LGBTQ community to finally emergefrom isolation and rock this town. Owners Bob Fluet, FrankieSharp, and Alan Picus are planning to open when things aresafe enough, Sharp telling insider Michael Musto that theclub will be in Hell’s Kitchen. The three major owners agreedto give us a sneak preview.INTERVIEW withFRANKIE SHARPHI, FRANKIE. FOR THOSEREADERS THAT HAVE NOTBEEN TO ONE OF YOUREVENTS, TELL THEM A LITTLEABOUT YOU AND YOURNIGHTLIFE BACKGROUND.I moved to New York on Sept11, 2009 from San Francisco. Iwanted to work in fashion, soI got a job assisting a designershowroom owner, which turnedinto some boring desk jobselling fashion wholesale. Itwas a dreadful experience, onlybecause I realized I’d rather beout till 4 AM at the clubs, andhaving to be in the office at 9AM was NOT working for me.
I got fired from that job andeventually fell back on whatI knew best: THROWING APARTY. So I started organizinga small weekly night called“EVERYTHING” at the oldBedlam space in the LowerEast Side, owned by the guyswho now own Atlas and ClubCumming. It was a tiny hole inthe wall party, but with hugepersonality. You had this sceney,intimate dance party, but withbig guest DJs and performerslike Hood By Air, Casey Spooner,Andy Cohen from Bravo, MykkiBlanco and Sky Ferreira, andwe were one of the first partiesto start booking the Ru girls. Itwas about celebrating the queerspectrum in all of its nonbinaryflow and to keep the vibe therecross-genre, cross-generational,cross-cultural. It was a little dashof everything, which is why Icalled the night “EVERYTHING:A Party For Everyone”.I won a Paper magazine awardfor Best New York Party thatyear, which caught the eye ofthe celebrity venue owners ofthe Westway (also of the JaneBallroom) to produce theirbig gay weekly rager, whicheventually became the infamous“WESTGAY”. WestGay ran forfour years and changed my life.It was the same “everythingand the kitchen sink” approach,but this time with a budget.So it was glamour, but it wasall sleaze at the same time. Itwas sickening House beats inone room and Britney Spearsand disco in the other. In themain room, we had performerslike Azealia Banks, ZebraKatz, Scissor Sisters and everybeloved drag queen, both localand from television. Lady MissKier of Deee-Lite DJ’d openingnight and that was quite ascene. Warhol superstar HollyWoodlawn (RIP) performed thereonce. That night, she leanedover to me and said “Thankyou for bringing me home”--the most amazing complimentanyone has ever given to meabout a night I produced. I’llnever forget it. Clearly, I have anaffinity for old New York.Since then, I’ve been producingweekly parties everywhere--at the Jane Hotel, Rebar,Metropolitan in Brooklyn, bothDream Hotels and a multitude ofone-off club nights in between.I was Program Director for 3Dollar Bill, getting them off theground their opening year, andcontinued to consult for themafter. All of this shaped me formy experience of becoming anowner and operator of THE Q, avenue of my very own.WHICH EVENTS WILL YOU BEOFFERING AND PROMOTINGFOR THE Q?We will be doing all of our ownevents, as we don’t plan to bringin outside promoters.
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