Season 6 · Episode 3
Poet, journalist and door legend · DJ, record producer and promoter · Jackie 60, Click + Drag, Mother
Released 2 Sep 2026 · 1:02:00 as a podcast
Every name, club, book, song, night and look from the interview - 228 references and 604 mentions in this episode. From the Mudd Club door, where they met, and Johnny's first DJ night there without owning a single record to Club 57 pop versus Mudd Club black, voguers outside Johnny's booth at the Tunnel, Elements of Vogue, Jackie 60's no-Club-Kid policy and its Silence of the Lunch Pails, the Brown Party and Night of a Thousand Stevies. Wow!
Taupe-cream top hat wrapped in black chiffon, long wavy platinum-blonde hair and a black top with a black lace edge - the Stevie Nicks side of her look
A bright blue cloth backdrop, shared with Johnny
Lunchboxes as purses
The no-lunchbox joke behind Jackie 60's no-Club-Kid policy
Where Johnny got his first DJ gig without owning a record and Chi Chi worked the door, then the upstairs door; they met there. Johnny calls it a punk joke on disco that became Studio 54 itself
FashionDark, leathery, punk (see Mood)
Heard as “Lombard / Mud / Mudd / month club”
The guests: Chi Chi Valenti - poet, journalist, Mudd Club door person and nightlife producer - and DJ, record producer and promoter Johnny Dynell, together since they met at the Mudd Club; creators of Jackie 60, Click + Drag and Night of a Thousand Stevies. Links to their Night Fever episode
FashionChi Chi's dominatrix-meets-Victorian-meets-Stevie Nicks look (see Mood); Johnny's floral shirt and tinted glasses on camera
Heard as “Chi Chi / Chichi / Dinell / Johnny”
Johnny arrived in summer 1975; dangerous then, they say, and below 14th Street was the centre of the universe
Weekly Tuesday club night by Chi Chi, Johnny, Kitty Boots and Richard Move: a few tables at Nell's at first, then a space at 14th and Washington for the whole 90s. It had a no-Club-Kid policy and different themes every week
FashionTheme-night dressing (see Mood)
Heard as “Jackie”
The couple hated it; Chi Chi went twice, yet appears in books of Studio photos. Johnny says its crowd later came down to the Mudd Club
FashionNight Porter look at the Lagerfeld party (see Mood)
Heard as “DJ at studio / Studio 54 / Studio Fifty Four / Studio Fifty four”
The Mudd Club had a punk sensibility; Johnny played bass in punk bands, was briefly in DNA and lived with Crass
FashionLeather, safety pins and Mohawks
Heard as “bunkers like / pump ben / punk / punks”
Part of Chi Chi's look; muse of Night of a Thousand Stevies. Chi Chi says there's a rumour she once came in person, and that she has sent the night a video
FashionShawls, chiffon and top hats (see Mood)
Heard as “Stevie / Stevie Nick / Stevie Nicks / stevie nix”
Themes James reads out: Mermaid, Backroom Bodega, Beeper Boys, Kittens, Santa Is Burning, Fiddler in the Hood, Klingon. Chi Chi says the four producers planned them a month or two ahead, mixing dominance nights, gay male nights and witchy poetry nights, some made for about $30
FashionWeekly costume themes
Heard as “Backroom / Beeper Boys / Bodega / Cling on”
Johnny was its DJ; where, he says, drag stopped imitating women. Randy says it was his and Fenton's way into New York
FashionDeconstructed drag (see Mood)
Heard as “Pyramid / pyramid”
Jackie 60 annual devoted to the colour brown and granola hippie culture, a takeoff on the White and Black Parties; themes included Navajo Hopi unity, recycling and a compost cabaret. People still ask for it, Chi Chi says
FashionWear something brown (see Mood)
Heard as “Brown Party / Brown party / Navajo Hopi / brown party”
Chi Chi met the voguers outside Johnny's Tunnel booth and researched the balls for her piece Nations; they were among the first to bring the scene downtown
FashionBallroom realness
Heard as “Vogres / Voguing / ball / ballhouse”
British anarcho-punk band Johnny says he more or less lived with; Chi Chi says they kept their records cheap and some members lived on the Lower East Side
FashionCrass T-shirts
Heard as “C R A S S / Crass / Kraus / crass”
Johnny calls it kooky and fun, a parallel line to the darker Mudd Club; James calls it pop, fifties retro and cartoony
FashionPop pastiche (see Mood)
Heard as “57 / fifty seven”
Johnny worked with him on the opera and Duck Rock and sent him tapes of the balls. As Johnny tells it, Malcolm sampled Paris Is Burning clips for Deep in Vogue; Chi Chi says he used the end of her piece Nations, and she sued and won a credit. She calls his work brilliant
FashionPunk impresario
Heard as “Malcolm / McLaren”
The no-lunchbox joke behind Jackie 60's no-Club-Kid policy
FashionLunchboxes as purses
Heard as “Lunch Pails / No lunch / no lunch”
Johnny put his head on the moth in the Silence of the Lunch Pails invitation; Chi Chi says nothing she saw in him suggested he could kill. Johnny says he asked Michael if he had killed Angel, and Michael said no
FashionClub Kid leader
Heard as “Michael”
One of the few, Johnny says, who went to both the Mudd Club and Club 57; they last saw James at his opening at the Broad. Johnny saw the Club Kids as possible new Keiths
FashionPop Shop T-shirts and graphic style
Heard as “Keith”
The Mudd Club began as a punk joke on disco, as Johnny describes it; the mid-70s were the start of disco
Heard as “Disco / disco”
The perfume Johnny remembers Chi Chi wearing when they met; she calls it the smell of the era
FashionPerfume
Heard as “Opium / YSL / opium”
Johnny first saw them at the Tunnel and liked only about ten, so Jackie 60 had a no-Club-Kid policy
FashionClub Kid costumes
Heard as “club kid / club kids”
Host; spent a week immersed in Chi Chi and Johnny lore and reads out his list of Jackie 60 themes. Links to his own Night Fever episode
Heard as “James / James St. James”
Where the punk crowd came from; Johnny played Max's in a band
Heard as “Max's”
Mudd Club owner who let Johnny DJ without owning a record and sent Chi Chi to the door instead of making her cigarette girl. Chi Chi says his intercom door rules were random (no black leather jackets one night), that he paid staff in fives and was too cheap to pay two people for one rope
Heard as “Steve Mass / Steve Mess / Steve was too cheap”
Johnny says New York and London were always connected; Crass lived near there, and Chi Chi MC'd Skin Two's rubber balls in London
One of Johnny's two dancers on Elements of Vogue; years later he joined Johnny in the booth at the Pose closing party
FashionVoguing
Heard as “Jose”
As Johnny tells it, Musto was intrigued by the Club Kids while Johnny couldn't see it
Heard as “Musta / Mustell / Musto”
Johnny's themes, such as Homo Erectus (gay archaeology) and a gay mariachi fiesta; he says Chi Chi's were smarter
FashionBeautiful-bodied boys (see Mood)
Heard as “Homo erectus / boys' nights / boys' themes / gay archaeology”
Began as a Jackie 60 theme in its first season and became the only annual they still do; named after the Pyramid's Night of a Thousand Barbaras. Chi Chi's Usenet post brought 40-50 Stevie fans to the second one
FashionShawls and tambourines (see Mood)
Heard as “Stevie Nick's night / Thousand CDs / Thousand Stevies / thousand Stev's”
Chi Chi lived there briefly around 1976 and felt something starting in New York; she found her Balenciaga coat in a thrift shop there
Chi Chi's best friend and running mate, not really her brother; a stylist who helped her sew and cut her first looks and, as James recalls Amanda saying, helped Amanda Lepore make hers. Chi Chi says he now lives in New Orleans
FashionGenius stylist; homemade early looks (see Mood)
Heard as “Kenny Valente / Kenny Valenti / Kenny was obsessed / Kenny would”
Director of Paris Is Burning; Chi Chi kept running into her at balls, and Johnny tried to help her raise money. As Johnny tells it, Malcolm McLaren sampled clips Johnny had sent him
Heard as “Jenny / Jenny Livingston”
Johnny's 1989 record with José and Luis as dancers; with Deep in Vogue, he says, the first vogue records
FashionVoguing
Heard as “Elements of Vogue / Elements of a”
Johnny says Angel used to come to Jackie 60, and that Michael denied it to him at the time
Heard as “before the murder / kill him / was killed”
The Brown Party dress code: granola hippie culture, brown rice and brown brick
FashionHippie browns
Heard as “granola / something brown”
Saturday night at Mother produced with Rob Roth, where fetish met gender hacking; Chi Chi calls it the tightest door she ever ran. Johnny says even he couldn't get in
FashionStrict fetish dress code (see Mood)
Heard as “Click and Drag / Click and drag / click and drag”
Co-host; with Randy, asks what punk meant to the guests (one of them admits not knowing Crass). Randy recalls their Pyramid nights together while at NYU
Heard as “Fenton”
Where Jackie 60 started with a few tables on Tuesdays; part of the couple's history as James introduces them
Heard as “Mills / Nell / Nells”
Chi Chi remembers James at a party there; Malcolm McLaren was living there when Johnny wrote to him
Heard as “LA”
One of the clubs Johnny went to after arriving in 1975 (not Chi Chi's own 14th Street loft)
Heard as “The Loft / the loft”
Johnny says the people who did Area started at the Mudd Club
Heard as “Area / Aria”
Where Chi Chi went while Johnny was at the Loft: same neighbourhood, different crowds
Heard as “Flaming / Flamingo”
Mudd Club doorman and author of a book about the club, a past guest on the show. Chi Chi says the two of them worked the door, were shot at and had a frozen bird thrown at them; Johnny remembers crowds in the street shouting his name
Heard as “Richard Bach / Richard and I / Richard, Richard”
Mudd Club DJ who, Johnny confirms, showed him how to DJ for his first Saturday night gig
Heard as “Anita”
In the Mudd Club crowd from the start, as Johnny remembers, moving between there and Studio 54
FashionPunk and new wave style icon
Heard as “Blondie, of course, Debbie / Debbie Harry / her and Debbie”
Chi Chi's huge shared loft was there; Johnny says downtown meant below 14th Street
Uptown disco Chi Chi visited on a rare expedition and checked her Balenciaga coat
Heard as “Magique / Majique / magi”
A Balenciaga coat from a Chicago thrift shop that Chi Chi checked at Magique; Johnny teases that she still thinks about it
FashionThrift-shop couture
Heard as “Coat / coat”
Photographer Johnny lived with in a loft on Franklin and Church; as Johnny tells it, she came back raving about Studio 54's opening and they both hated the idea
Heard as “Henny”
James's description of the look Chi Chi has cultivated for decades; she says it was much more severe at first
FashionBlack corsetry, lace and Stevie Nicks shawls
Heard as “Victorian / dominatrix”
James recalls she credited Keni Valenti with helping her; Chi Chi met her at the start of her journey and says Keni saw Jayne Mansfield in her
FashionJayne Mansfield-style glamour
Heard as “Amanda”
Johnny's picture of the Mudd Club's very dark, leathery S&M scene; Chi Chi adds kind of witchy
FashionBlack leather
Heard as “Leathery / SMN”
James recalls her saying on the show that nobody wore fetish gear to clubs before her, and puts Chi Chi in that story too
FashionFetish gear in clubs
Heard as “Diane”
Johnny jokes he was the exception to Steve Mass's door bans - let in, but charged double
Heard as “meat loaf / meatloaf”
Chi Chi says the Love Ball idea came from reading Nations; Johnny remembers her coming over at the House of Field ball saying they had to do a ball
Heard as “Suzanne”
Being shot while Chi Chi researched the balls; Johnny tried to help raise money for it
FashionBallroom realness
Heard as “Paris is burning / Paris's Burning / Paris's burning”
Published Chi Chi's first big piece, Nations, in late 1988; she says Details paid her for it
Heard as “Details / details”
Chi Chi's piece on night tribes, among them the House of Xtravaganza; she says it inspired the Love Ball and Malcolm McLaren used its ending
Heard as “Nations / nations”
James recalls a ghost-themed night at Nell's where Miss Guy came as Sharon Tate's ghost; the night's name is unclear in the audio
FashionGhost costumes (see Mood)
Heard as “ghost of”
Miss Guy's ghost costume at a night at Nell's, as James recalls
FashionGory ghost drag
Heard as “ghost of”
Malcolm McLaren's track; as Johnny tells it, built on clips from Paris Is Burning, while Chi Chi says it used the end of her piece Nations and she is credited
Heard as “Deep in Vogue / Keep in vogue / deepened vogue”
Came a year after Elements of Vogue, as Johnny points out
Heard as “Before Vogue / before the other one”
His house on the West Side, where the Pyramid crowd gathered, as Johnny and James recall
Heard as “Nelson”
Johnny says West Village drag girls did not like the East Village girls
Heard as “West Side / West Village / west side”
Johnny remembers her outfits as beyond belief and quotes her: they weren't trying to look like women but like drag queens. Randy and Fenton got their Ninth Street apartment through her circle
FashionNo-money, beyond-belief outfits
Heard as “Sister / sister”
Jackie 60's 1992 night mocking the Club Kids (have the It Twins stopped screaming yet?), its invitation with Michael Alig's head on the Silence of the Lambs poster. Chi Chi says it was shown in a Stonewall 50 exhibit and they never topped it
FashionLunchbox-toting Club Kids (see Mood)
Heard as “Lunch Pails / it twins”
Its poster moth got Michael Alig's head on Johnny's invitation
Heard as “silence of the lambs”
Chi Chi posted the second Night of a Thousand Stevies on a Stevie Nicks newsgroup, and Stevie fans turned up
Heard as “Usenet / alt dot”
Co-host; recalls that the Pyramid was his and Fenton's way into New York while they were at NYU, and that they found their Ninth Street apartment through Sister Dimension
Heard as “Barbado / Randy”
The Keith Haring opening at the Broad where they last saw James, a few years ago
Heard as “Herring opening / saw you at Keith”
Where Johnny grew up, far north of Syracuse near the Canadian border
Heard as “north of Syracuse / upstate New York”
Where Ones was
Heard as “Hudson”
Chi Chi grew up partly there
Chi Chi went to school in the era of schools without walls and open classrooms; James did too
Heard as “without walls”
On the mixed-up Mudd Club playlist; later a joke on the Brown Party invitation
Johnny played there in a band; part of the punk scene that fed the Mudd Club
Heard as “CBGBs / CBs”
Coming in around 1979, Johnny says, and spreading from the Mudd Club and Pyramid playlists
Heard as “new wave”
Another Mudd Club record Johnny played
Heard as “Ian Drury / block. heads”
Where Johnny says they live now; in the 70s you wouldn't go in the park at night
Taking your life in your hands to go there in the 70s, as Johnny says; home of the Pyramid
Heard as “Avenue A / Pyramid Club on A”
Chi Chi says she took him to the Mudd Club for the first time when he visited Bruno Schmidt, and went with him to the Lagerfeld party at Studio 54
Heard as “Rudolph”
The friend Rudolf Piper was visiting in New York when Chi Chi first met him; spelling as heard
Heard as “Bruno”
Part of the downtown universe Johnny describes; where he met ball kids years before
Heard as “Paradise Garage / at the garage”
Chi Chi's name for what they all wore to the Lagerfeld party
FashionNight Porter wear (see Mood)
Heard as “night porter”
What Chi Chi, Rudolf and friends wore to Lagerfeld's Studio 54 party
FashionMilitary caps, braces and leather
Heard as “night porter”
Where, Chi Chi says, Keni Valenti now lives, and where Chi Chi learned the phrase culture bearing
Keni Valenti's obsession, as Chi Chi recalls; James sees a little of her in Chi Chi too
FashionHollywood bombshell glamour
Heard as “little Jane in you / we all love Jane”
Old bustiers and corsets bought from a lady on Orchard Street
FashionVintage bustiers and corsets
Heard as “bousiers / corsetry”
Chi Chi's joke about the New York-London punk trade: Richard Hell and safety pins one way, corsets the other
FashionSafety pins and corsets
Heard as “Safe deep in / safety pins”
How Johnny remembers her the night they met, smelling of Opium
FashionBias-cut satin gown
Heard as “bias-cut / satin gown”
Like Keith Haring, a regular at both the Mudd Club and Club 57, as Johnny recalls
FashionCustomised, cartoon-bright style
Heard as “Keith and Kenny / Kenny Sharp”
Johnny calls Club 57 kooky and kinky and the Mudd Club black; James calls 57 fifties retro and cartoony
FashionFifties retro pop vs all black
Heard as “pastiche / zippity”
Named by Johnny with Marianne Faithfull for the Mudd Club's dark side
Johnny's image of St. Marks punks
FashionMohawks and band T-shirts
Heard as “Mohawk / crass t-shirts”
Writer whose Village Voice piece on voguing and the balls, Venus Envy, came out alongside Chi Chi's; they were researching at the same balls
Heard as “Donald Suggs / Donald and I”
Johnny played its main floor around 1986-87, where the voguers danced outside his booth and he first saw the Club Kids
Heard as “tunnel”
Chi Chi says Susanne got the idea from reading Nations
Heard as “Love Ball / do a ball”
One of the four night tribes in Chi Chi's Nations, the house with the strongest family feel; Johnny became an Xtravaganza
FashionBallroom
Heard as “Extravaganza / extravaganza”
Johnny remembers Susanne telling Pat at the House of Field ball that they had to do a ball, and Pat replying they just had
Heard as “Pat”
Her Vogue came after Deep in Vogue and Elements of Vogue, as James and Johnny note
Johnny was its DJ; James says it lifted drag into refined characters
FashionRefined drag characters
Named as his drag persona Hattie Hathaway: one of the Pyramid girls who turned drag into their own characters, and later the fourth Jackie 60 producer after Richard Move
FashionPyramid drag
Heard as “Hattie Hathaway”
Probably the Billy named with Hattie Hathaway among the Pyramid girls; name only partly heard
FashionPyramid drag
Heard as “Billy”
Sister Dimension's line, as Johnny quotes it, and her no-money outfits
FashionDeconstructed drag
Heard as “beyond belief / look like drag queens”
Johnny's invitation with Michael's head on the poster moth
FashionPoster parody
Heard as “butterfly”
Choreographer and original Jackie 60 producer, later replaced by Hattie Hathaway
Heard as “Richard Move / Richard left”
Chi Chi ran into him at her first Stevie Nicks concert; he was already performing as Stevie
FashionDrag Stevie
Heard as “Dean”
Implied: the Pyramid's Night of a Thousand Barbaras, the night Night of a Thousand Stevies was named after
Heard as “Barbaras”
Pyramid Club night that, Johnny says, gave Night of a Thousand Stevies its name
Heard as “Thousand Barbaras”
The Usenet fans who arrived at the second Night of a Thousand Stevies knowing every word
FashionShawls and tambourines
Heard as “shawls / tambourines”
Chi Chi and Johnny's club at 14th and Washington, home of Jackie 60 and Click + Drag; heard as the motherboards when James calls it one of the first nightclubs online
Heard as “motherboards”
The strictest door Chi Chi ever ran, inspired by Skin Two's strip-at-the-door rule
FashionFetish and rubber
Heard as “dress code”
Fenton and Randy's company, named in the intro
Where they last saw James, at the Keith Haring opening
Heard as Hollywood Lawn: Chi Chi thinks James was with her at the Roosevelt Hotel party
Heard as “Hollywood Lawn”
Venue of the Hollywood Gothic party Chi Chi remembers
Heard as “Roosevelt Hotel”
Party at the Roosevelt Hotel in LA where Chi Chi remembers seeing James long ago
Heard as “Gothic Party”
Named by James with the Loft as a club Johnny went to; name unclear in the audio
Heard as “Chalice”
DJ Johnny went to hear at Ones on Hudson Street in the mid-70s; still a friend and still DJing
Heard as “Danny Crivett”
Club on Hudson Street where Johnny heard Danny Krivit; he places it near where Area ended up
Heard as “Called Ones”
On Chi Chi's side of 70s nightlife, with Hurrah and the Flamingo
Heard as “Gigi Barnums”
Chi Chi was the only woman on its large display crew
FashionWindow display
Heard as “Lord and Taylor”
Chi Chi notes that she grew up near where the Long Island serial killer lived, as it turned out
Heard as “Long Island serial killer”
Named by James, from Richard Boch's account, as one of the Mudd Club DJs alongside Anita; identity unclear in the audio
Heard as “Howie”
Of course at the Mudd Club, says Johnny
Chi Chi found a Balenciaga coat for $3.50 in a Chicago thrift shop
FashionSee Mood
Heard as “Valenciaga”
Where Johnny shared a loft with Henny Garfunkel
Heard as “Franklin in Church”
His party at Studio 54 was one of only two nights Chi Chi ever went there
Heard as “Carl Lagerfeld”
One of Chi Chi's two nights at Studio 54, with Rudolf, all in what she calls Night Porter wear; she's been in books of Studio photos ever since
FashionNight Porter wear (see Mood)
Heard as “Lagerfeld party”
Chi Chi and Keni sewed and cut their own clothes because nobody sold those looks
FashionHand-cut, hand-sewn
Heard as “We would sew”
Where a lady sold old bustiers and corsetry to Chi Chi and Keni
FashionOld-school corsetry (see Mood)
Named by Johnny with Terence Sellers as part of the dark, leathery Mudd Club scene
FashionDominatrix-inspired downtown style
Heard as “Anya”
Writer named by Johnny as part of the Mudd Club's dark S&M scene
FashionDominatrix style
Heard as “Terrence Sellers”
James says designers like Gaultier later took fetish looks from the club scene
FashionFetish-inspired couture
Heard as “Gautier”
Named with Gaultier as a designer who took from the club scene
FashionFetish-inspired couture
Heard as “Muglaire”
Chi Chi jokes that New York gave London Richard Hell and safety pins and got corsets back
FashionTorn shirts and safety pins
Heard as “Richard Howell”
The Mudd Club's street; Chi Chi says even cab drivers couldn't find it
One of Steve Mass's random door bans, as Chi Chi recalls
FashionBlack leather jackets
Heard as “black leather jackets”
James asks whether she worked the upstairs rope too; Chi Chi says they did it one at a time
Heard as “Mazar”
Friend Chi Chi stayed with at the Chelsea Hotel
Heard as “Patty”
Where Chi Chi stayed with her friend Patty
Heard as “Chelsea Hotel”
Longtime Chelsea Hotel manager (no page of his own; links to the hotel); Chi Chi says they paid the weekly bill in Steve Mass's fives just to annoy him
The painter owned the building where Johnny lived for a while in his studio, upstairs from the Mudd Club; that's where Johnny and Chi Chi met
Heard as “Ross Blechner”
Johnny says Chi Chi looked like her the night they met
FashionBias-cut satin gown (see Mood)
Heard as “Gene Harlow”
Chi Chi says he still credits her refusing him at the Mudd Club's upstairs door with starting his career
Chi Chi read it at the upstairs door to see how people reacted
FashionSatire at the door (see Mood)
Heard as “cosmopolitan”
Chi Chi reading Cosmopolitan at the Mudd Club's upstairs rope as a mind game
FashionSatirical door pose
Heard as “cosmopolitan”
Johnny names her among the Studio 54 crowd who started coming down to the Mudd Club
Heard as “Bianca”
Johnny says she and Debbie Harry were always at the Mudd Club in the beginning
Among the stars Johnny remembers turning up at the Mudd Club
Heard as “Bowie”
James has heard she went to the Mudd Club; Johnny says everyone went at some point
Chi Chi counts it with the Mudd Club and Pyramid as where downtown clubs came from
Heard as “danceteria”
Johnny names her as typical of the darker Mudd Club crowd
Heard as “Marianne Faithful”
As Johnny tells it, the Suicide singer told him everyone had to be in a band and took him to a pawn shop to buy a bass
Joined DNA after Johnny left (heard as Ardo), when, Johnny jokes, the band got good
Heard as “Ardo”
Where several Crass members lived in New York, as Chi Chi tells it
Crass's communal home, which Chi Chi describes as a 400-year-old squat vicarage in London; it is actually an old cottage in Essex
Heard as “squat vicarage”
Mohawks in Crass T-shirts, as Johnny describes it
FashionMohawks and Crass T-shirts (see Mood)
Heard as “St. Mark's”
Where the ball scene came from before they helped bring it downtown
Ballroom-set Cats that Chi Chi mentions opening in 2026, a long way from her 1986 research
FashionBallroom
Heard as “Jellico Ball”
Donald Suggs's piece on voguing and the balls
Heard as “Venus Envy”
Ran Donald Suggs's Venus Envy
Heard as “Village Voice”
Ball kids voguing outside Johnny's booth, sometimes carrying trophies
FashionBallroom realness
Heard as “trophy”
Johnny remembers sitting there when Susanne came over saying they had to do a ball
Heard as “field ball”
Toilet Boys singer; James recalls her coming to a party at Nell's as the ghost of Sharon Tate
FashionGory ghost drag (see Mood)
Johnny's friend, with whom he worked on Malcolm McLaren projects; a past Night Fever guest
FashionPunk and record-sleeve design
Malcolm McLaren's opera album, which Johnny worked on
Heard as “the opera”
Malcolm McLaren album Johnny worked on with Nick Egan
Its lawyers backed Chi Chi's case over Deep in Vogue, as she tells it
Heard as “Condé Nas”
James asks if he was on the record (heard as Hector); Johnny names José and Luis
Heard as “Hector”
Johnny DJed it a couple of years ago, with José Xtravaganza in the booth
Heard as “closing party”
Late-70s drag as female impersonation, before the Pyramid
FashionMarilyn platinum and white
Heard as “imitating Marilyn”
Johnny says late-70s drag imitated Marilyn Monroe until the Pyramid changed it
FashionScreen glamour icon
Johnny remembers her and Ru arriving at the Pyramid and fitting right in
Heard as “Bunny”
Heard as Rue: arrived at the Pyramid with Bunny, as Johnny recalls
Heard as “Rue”
Named by Johnny as the man at Boy Bar trying to create stars; surname not given
Heard as “Matthew”
The Pyramid's drag world, as Johnny tells it
Randy and Fenton lived on Ninth between B and C
Johnny hoped the Club Kids would be the new Keith and Jean-Michel
Heard as “Jean-Michel”
Also on Johnny's short list of Club Kids who went on to do something
FashionMake-up artist
Heard as “Kabuki”
Showed the Silence of the Lunch Pails invitation in its Stonewall 50 exhibit, as Chi Chi says
Heard as “New York Historical”
The New-York Historical Society show that included the Silence of the Lunch Pails invitation
Heard as “Stonewall”
Named in a Jackie 60 award line, Bring us the head of Julie Jewels (heard as Julie Julie)
Heard as “Julie Julie”
Johnny says Angel used to come to Jackie 60 and was one of their kids
Heard as “angel”
Fetish fashion designer and one of the four original Jackie 60 producers
FashionFetish fashion
The space where Jackie 60 ran for the whole 90s, later Mother
Gay male nights at Jackie 60, as Chi Chi describes them
FashionBare bodies
Heard as “beautiful bodied”
Also at that Stevie Nicks concert, a Stevie fan from the downtown drag scene
Details founder; Chi Chi says she was able to sue over Deep in Vogue thanks to her and the Condé Nast lawyers. At the first Night of a Thousand Stevies she told Chi Chi it was really something
Heard as “Danny Flanders”
Sang Stevie's Silent Night at the first Night of a Thousand Stevies, as Chi Chi remembers
Stevie's rarely performed version, sung by Jimmy James at the first Night of a Thousand Stevies
Heard as “Silent Night”
Artist Chi Chi credits as a creative genius behind Click + Drag and her co-producer on it
Chi Chi MC'd some of these huge London balls and loved their strip-at-the-door dress code
FashionRubber dress code
Heard as “rubber balls”
London fetish magazine behind the rubber balls Chi Chi MC'd
FashionRubber and fetish fashion
Heard as “Skin 2”
A bright blue cloth backdrop, shared with Johnny
FashionTaupe-cream top hat wrapped in black chiffon, long wavy platinum-blonde hair and a black top with a black lace edge - the Stevie Nicks side of her look
The same blue cloth backdrop
FashionNavy, lilac and white ditsy-floral button-down over a black T-shirt, chunky dark burgundy frames with peach-pink tinted lenses, tousled dark hair, a moustache and a chinstrap goatee
His home library of packed bookshelves, with a black mic
FashionOrange satin shirt printed with zebras, an amber bead necklace and dark tortoiseshell glasses; shaved head
An office with a framed Holy Terror poster (Bob Colacello's book), shelves of books, framed photos and boxes
FashionDark baseball cap with a small patch, black glasses, green plaid flannel shirt over a grey-green T-shirt
A bedroom with dark wallpaper of rust-red blossoms, amber wooden shutters, pink bedding and a blue 'Mom I'm GAY' stormtrooper poster
FashionNavy zip hoodie over a teal T-shirt and thin wire glasses; bald
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