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A Night at the Sweet Gum Head: Drag, Drugs, Disco, and Atlantas Gay Revolution Audiobook, by Martin Padgett Play Audiobook Sample

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

A Night at the Sweet Gum Head: Drag, Drugs, Disco, and Atlantas Gay Revolution Audiobook, by Martin Padgett Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Martin Padgett Publisher: Random House Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 6.67 hours at 1.5x Speed 5.00 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: June 2021 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780593459775

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

17

Longest Chapter Length:

72:13 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

06 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

35:36 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

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.

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