Get Out! GAY Magazine – Issue 520
Featuring content from the hottest gay and gay-friendly spots in New York, each (free!) issue of Get Out! highlights the bars, nightclubs, restaurants, spas and other businesses throughout NYC’s metropolitan area that the city’s gay a population is interested in.
Featuring content from the hottest gay and gay-friendly spots in New York, each (free!) issue of Get Out! highlights the bars, nightclubs, restaurants, spas and other businesses throughout NYC’s metropolitan area that the city’s gay a population is interested in.
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BY EILEEN SHAPIRO<br />
CELEBRITY CORRESPONDENT<br />
DAVID KENNERLEY<br />
“GETTING IN: NYC CLUB FLYERS FROM THE <strong>GAY</strong> 1990’S”<br />
A work of art, a statement, a tribute,<br />
a journey through history….Arts<br />
and entertainment journalist David<br />
Kennerley’s new book “GETTING IN:<br />
NYC Club Flyers from the Gay 1990s”<br />
is all of the above and more, and<br />
includes a riveting introduction by<br />
world renowned columnist, author,<br />
and everything else Michael Musto.<br />
Artistically, it offers the exquisitely<br />
vibrant pictures of the flyers from<br />
the iconic LGBTQ clubs that thrived<br />
in the 90’s, including the Limelight,<br />
the Roxy, Twilo, the Copacabana,<br />
and others that might have been<br />
lost forever if not carefully saved by<br />
David through the years. The book<br />
takes you on a journey through the<br />
illuminated tapestry of the crudely<br />
macadamized cement streets of New York City, leading to the gateways of the<br />
club scene, where a multichromatic, sophisticated anarchy of dance, music,<br />
drag, club kids, and the fear of AIDS took place. “GETTING IN: NYC Club Flyers<br />
from the Gay 1990s” is set for release late August.<br />
INTERVIEW<br />
Hi, David.<br />
Congratulations on your<br />
book.<br />
Thanks. It’s my first one.<br />
It’s taken me three years<br />
to do. So it’s kind of a big<br />
deal for me.<br />
Well, it’s a coffee table<br />
book, right?<br />
I use that term because<br />
it’s got lots of amazing<br />
photos and it’s hardcover<br />
and it’s substantial, but<br />
it’s really more than that<br />
because it’s also a history<br />
of gay clubs. It’s got<br />
timelines and a map that<br />
shows you where all the<br />
clubs were in the ‘90s. So<br />
it’s sort of a combination.<br />
What inspired you to do<br />
this?<br />
When I was in my late<br />
20s, I started going<br />
clubbing in New York<br />
City, starting in 1990. I<br />
hadn’t come out yet. So I<br />
was still sort of bi-curious<br />
and trying to figure out<br />
my own way. And then<br />
I discovered the Roxy,<br />
which was a big gay club<br />
on West 18th Street. Big<br />
clubs were so unusual to<br />
me, because I had never<br />
really gone to any before,<br />
and I was fascinated when<br />
they would hand out these<br />
flyers. You know, for the<br />
big parties, the promoters<br />
would hand them out. And<br />
I was just like, “Why are<br />
people throwing these<br />
out?