GETTING IN
Nyc club flyers from the gay 1990’s
by david kennerley
A handsome, coffee-table style book showcasing 230 flyers from NYC queer clubs from the 1990s, with commentary from nightlife luminaries of the era such as Michael Musto, Lady Bunny, DJ Larry Tee, Susan Morabito, Goldy Loxxx, and more.
FIRST EDITION SOLD OUT.
SECOND EDITION NOW AVAILABLE!
JUST A FEW OF THE CLUBBIES WHO CONTRIBUTED TO GETTING IN
MICHAEL MUSTO
Nightlife maven, TV commentator, book author, and contributor to publications like The Village Voice, Queerty, and The Daily Beast
LADY BUNNY
Wigstock co-founder, drag artist and DJ from the 1980s through today
WaltPaper
Club Kid, designer, author of New York: Club Kids
MARK ALLEN
Go-go boy, model, promoter, author, activist
ERNIE GLAM
Club Kid, promoter, journalist
LARRY TEE
DJ, promoter, music producer
MAX RODRIGUEZ
DJ from the 1980s through today
SUSAN MORABITO
DJ from the 1980s through today
What people are saying about getting in
Erik Piepenburg, The New York Times
“An electric visual stroll through New York’s 1990s gay club scene. Not with photos, exactly, but through fliers — more than 200 of them — featuring polychromatic drag queens and come-hither hunks.”
Christopher Murray, Gay City News
“For those who lived through the period and were habitués of the scene, the book will induce a range of flashbacks to sweaty dance floors and late night cab rides home. For those younger folks, it will allow for a strange early nostalgia for their own unfolding youth and perhaps encourage them to hold onto what inevitably, seemingly impossibly, vanishes.”
CHRISTOPHER BYRNE, CONNECTICUT VOICE
“The era may be gone, but Kennerley has preserved it beautifully. This is an important book both in terms of art and culture. GETTING IN should be at the top of your gift lists this holiday season.”
Pat Kiernan, SPECTRUM News NY1
“There’s a new book about the city’s gay club scene in the ’90s, viewed through a colorful lens. Instead of photos, it uses the flyers that would spread word about parties and places like the Palladium and Twilo. The writer of GETTING IN says he hated seeing people throw these flyers on the ground…so he viewed them as mementoes of a time.”
Art Smith, Gay Barchives
“The clubs were the soul of our community. That’s where we started organizing our protests; met our husbands, lovers, tricks for the night; and built a community. I am so glad you are putting this book out so people can see what we had back then.”
GREGG SHAPIRO, OUTSMART MAGAZINE
“The must-have coffee-table book of the holiday season.”
From hoarder to historian
THE 1990s IN NEW YORK CITY WAS A HEADY TIME FOR CLUBGOERS, ESPECIALLY THOSE WITH A QUEER BENT. Massive dance clubs like the Roxy, Palladium, Limelight, and Tunnel drew fiercely passionate crowds. But the plucky smaller venues like Splash, Crowbar, Pyramid, and Sound Factory Bar were just as vital. DAVID KENNERLEY ventured into these now-legendary clubs. And when it was time to leave, promoters handed out flyers for the next week's parties. Most people tossed them on the sidewalk, but he saved each and every one.
GETTING IN spotlights over 230 of the most eye-popping, culturally resonant examples from his collection. The invites are not only visually stunning –– depicting flamboyant Club Kids, shirtless hunks, and sassy drag queens –– but tell a story of a unique moment in history when the LGBTQ community was reeling from the AIDS crisis and nightspots provided a refuge. GETTING IN is the first book to showcase queer nightclub invites from this era.
Special thanks to contributing editor MARC ZINAMAN, art director/designer FRANK GARGIULO, and copy editor JAY BLOTCHER
About The AUTHOR
DAVID KENNERLEY is a journalist specializing in LGBTQ culture. For nearly two decades, he has been an Arts & Entertainment reporter for Gay City News, the NYC-based LGBTQ newspaper and website. David’s work has been published in other outlets including Metro New York, Genre magazine, and BravoTV.com.
Originally from the farmlands of Eastern Pennsylvania, David moved to NYC and became addicted to nightlife in the 1990s, where he became a club flyer hoarder and unexpected expert on queer nightlife of the period. Several examples from his ephemera collection were shown in the “Letting Loose and Fighting Back” exhibition at the New-York Historical Society honoring the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. David currently lives in the West Village neighborhood of Manhattan and occasionally still goes clubbing.
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