13 magazines, 110 club flyers, 31 promotional matchbooks. 4to and various sizes. Rare queer nightlife ephemera from New York City, with a collection of alternative weeklys from the 1970s-1980s, a collection club flyers from the 1990s through early 2000s, and matchbooks from queer establishments from probably the 1970s-1990s. A very interesting collection of the traces of queer social life in New York City establishments over three decades. Contents include: -- Group of ephemera, mostly club flyers: -- Approx. 110 items, various sizes including 4 folding posters. -- Events at clubs including the following New York Clubs (except where noted): Rebar, Jackie 60, Sound Factory, Roxy, Limelight, Warsaw, Twilo, Glamorama, Webster Hall, Escuelita, Speeed, Cheetah, Industria, Life, The Hudson, Irving Plaza, Uncle Charlies, Milk, Viscaya, The Men's Room, A Brand New Space, The Break, Wildflower, Tunnel, Eastern Bloc, Torpedo, Latin Flavor, Hommes Away from Home (Whistler, BC), Nocturnal, Percussion/More Men, Life Begins, Palladium, Spa, The Fifth Column (Washington, DC), The Men's Room, Welcome to the Future USA, Arena, Nocturnal (Southampton), Zone DK, Hell, Studio 54, King, and more. -- Featuring DJs like Honey Dijon, Bill Coelman, Frankie Knuckles, Billy Carroll, Johnny Dynell, Merritt, James Andersen, Carlos Pertuz, Manny Ward, Andrew Tonio, Junior Vasquez, Danny Tenaglia, Rupal (performance), and many more (giving a very in depth picture of the New York House Music in the 1990s club landscape). -- Other events for the following associations, foundations, and other programs: Society of Spanking, GMSMA (Gay Male S/M Activists), Tom of Finland, Meat Market Cardpack, SF AIDS Foundation, Gay Games, Folsom Fair North 2 (Toronto), the Hetrick-Martin Institute, the Bill Costa Estate, the Columbia Gay + Lesbian Dance, NY Erotic Art Fair, Mr. Leather New York, Raymond Dragon, and Daddy Hunt -- 13 magazines, filled with articles and a robust advertising culture that covers the gay underground in New York City: clubs and bars and their weekly theme parties, beauty salons and products, and other aspects of a largely ephemeral historical scene. -- Michael's Thing, 5 issues: Vol. 7 #33 Aug 15-21 1977, Vol. 7 #38 Sept. 19-25 1977, Vol. 8 #8 Feb. 20-26 1978, Vol. 10 #36 Sept. 8-14 1980, Vol. 12 #11 March 15-22 1982 Michael's Thing was a queer culture guide in New York that ran weekly from 1970-2000. Founded by Michael Giammetta in the wake of the Stonewall Riots, it covered the early pride parades, and the AIDS epidemic, as well as had insight into weekly clubs, cabarets, Broadway productions, and skin flicks. Possibly the longest-running queer alternative weekly. -- Topman, 6 issues: Sept 15, 1980; January 5, 1981; February 16, 1981; April 27, 1981; March 22, 1982; Feberuary 28, 1983 Topman is variously tagged as "New York's Top Weekly Pleasure Guide" or "No One Knows New York Like We Do", covered similar territory as Michael's Thing, with a larger focus on sex and cruising -- Where It's At, New York's Weekly Gay Guide, 2 issues: May 30, 1977; April 10, 1978 Another Weekly from the thriving 1970s queer alternative press, this one included a weekly list of the Best Disco releases put together by the important NYC DJ and producer, John "Jellybean" Benitez Promotional matchbooks and matchboxes 31 from the following iconic New York spots: Julius, The Spike, The Eagle, The Club Baths, The Toolbox, Pegasus, Lure, Harry's Back End, Uncle Charlie's Restaurant, The 5 Oaks, Last Call, Company Restaurant and Caberet, G Cocktails Chelsea, The Townhouse, Sapphire, Pieces, Twilight, Regents, The New TJ's, and XL. From further afield are matchbooks/boxes from The Hoist (London); Transfer, Backstreet, and The Eagle (Atlanta), and the Leather Stallion Saloon (Cleveland). 13 magazines, 110 club flyers, 31 promotional matchbooks. 4to and various sizes.

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Collection of Queer New York Nightlife Ephemera

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2004

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