An Evening at the Sugary Food Gum Head: Drag, Drugs, Disco, as well as Atlanta's Gay Change

An Evening at the Sugary Food Gum Head: Drag, Drugs, Disco, as well as Atlanta's Gay Change

Coursing with a pumped-up beat, gay Atlanta was the South's capital-- a sign for gays as well as lesbians maturing in its homophobic communities as well as cities. There, the Sugary Food Periodontal Head was the club for achieving drag fame.

Martin Padgett stimulates the fantabulous disco years by going deep into the lives of 2 males who formed and also were formed by this city: John Greenwell, an Alabama runaway who found himself and also his avocation executing as the beautiful Rachel Wells; and Bill Smith, who required to the streets as well as town hall to change antigay legislations. Versus this positive outlook for presence as well as civil liberties, gay individuals dealt with day-to-day cops harassment and medication handling as well as murder in their discos as well as drag clubs. Performing meetings with many of the significant numbers and checking out weakening gay archives, Padgett expertly re-creates Atlanta from a time when a vibrant, new queer culture of drag and satisfaction entered being.