peter laughner/rocket from the tombs

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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Adele Bertei readings and author talks. Mark your calendars for these events and check out these podcasts:

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

Such fun.