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

by Martin Padgett

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324007125
• ISBN13: 9781324007128
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.2"