peter laughner/rocket from the tombs

I guess «rewrite» might be a more precise description than «cover»

There's a review for theis book by Adele Bertei on Peter & the Wolves Peter laughner's mid 70s band in the most recent Ugly Things
https://www.smogveil.com/products/adele-bertei-peter-and-the-wolves-book

apparently a shorter middle book between a memoir on her growing up and moving to NYC I think. Which she has covered in longer books.
Sound like things i want to read anyway. hope SmogVeil is easier to get hold of than Hozac books are. Though a European outlet for Hozac would also be good. I thik there have been some books from them on the Cleveland scene too, Hozac that is.

I wonder if Bertai’s statement is accurate : “Segregation didn’t exist in gay culture in the 1970sehhh, think---going by interviews w people of color and whitss in Tim Lawrence's histories of NYC dance culture in the 70s-80s-90s, also his examination of documents, it depended on where you were and when---the old Fire Island gay subculture was being modified from some of its insular, even politically conservative, incl. color-wary, shall we say, POVs, but still there was some of that, and some venues were there---also, there were certainly club-owners who *tried* for a whiter, or white-only, clientele, along w a richer one, especially as the most relevant parts of NYC became more gentrified in early 80s, but even way before that to some extent, with a place intended from its launch to be a celebrity-magnet, for instance, or some little place that just *caught on*, so prices go up and maybe there are other filters, so a a place like The Gallery was something of a grassroots, multi-racial,multimedia, trans-genre etc counter to that---and the punk drag Pyramids was an explicit counter to largely white, affluent, "clone," "lookist" The Saint (though evidently there were people of color who went to The Saint, it just wasn't known for that...)
The whole thing was more fluid than some wanted it to be, but could be dicey. Lawrence's books don't have that much to say, so far (I haven't gotten all the way through the one that delves into the 80s), about lesbian-exclusive or lesbian-centric scenes, maybe those had fewer racial "filters," at least that she might have been aware of as a white woman---? And looking back through the mists of time etc.

One that delves into the *90s*, I meant to say.

In his Fresh Air interview, archived on npr, RuPaul talks about the Atlanta punk drag scene of his youth; he and his crew prob knew about Pyramids (and the self-described "gay street gangs" aspect of the drag houses crews in Paris Is Burning), but either way, it could cut across racial lines as much as dance music, to some extent, at least in gay and gay-inclusive scenes (though also, of course, Lester Bangs said: https://www.villagevoice.com/2020/01/05/the-white-noise-supremacists])

Originally published 4-30-79.

https://brooklynrail.org/2021/05/books/Adele-Bertei-with-Luc-Sante

This is the piece James Redd and I were referring to. Bertei & Sante did a chat in NY recently also, and she's been making the rounds re her Laughner book and her new Labelle one.
She was also on Mike Watt's interview show podcast awhile back.

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(actually not, and haven't found them on the Sirus site yet)
Maybe they'll fix the link---whole newsletter is here as webpage, so I'll check again sometime:
https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Smog-Veil-Records-Clearing-The-Air--174-JUNE-2021.html?soid=1102941868062&aid=oKPggqljO7M

Still love The Day The Earth Met…, thinking of taking a deep dive into the box set.

Such fun.