In the episodes
123 mentions across all episodes - S1E1 1 · S1E2 5 · S1E3 5 · S1E7 12 · S2E3 4 · S3E6 23 · S4E8 45 · S6E1 21 · S6E3 7
- S6E1 · James St. James · 21 mentions in this episode
Club Kids founder; James worked his door at the Tunnel; later convicted of killing Angel Melendez
FashionClub Kid known for outrageous costumes
- S1E1 · Dianne Brill · 1 mention in this episode
Club Kids leader; Dianne praises his early looks and hosting
FashionClub Kid known for outrageous costumes
- S1E2 · Michael Musto · 5 mentions in this episode
Club Kids leader who filled the vacuum after Warhol died; Musto broke the story of the Angel Melendez killing
FashionClub Kid known for outrageous costumes
- S1E3 · Lisa Edelstein · 5 mentions in this episode
Lisa says she never liked him; James was intrigued, which is where they parted ways
FashionClub Kid ringleader known for his looks
- S2E3 · Susanne Bartsch · 4 mentions in this episode
Susanne introduced him to Peter Gatien to take over her Limelight events, so James says she's responsible for the Club Kids
FashionClub Kid ringleader known for his looks
- S3E6 · Eric Goode · 23 mentions in this episode
Busboy at Area who led the Club Kids; Eric recalls seeing him with cocaine at a Bowery Bar brunch months before he went to prison, and James says Eric comped their meals
FashionClub Kid known for outrageous costumes
- S1E7 · Rudolf Piper · 12 mentions in this episode
Rudolf gave him a busboy job at Danceteria to stop him pestering the office, then his first nights; together they made the Tunnel basement the Club Kids' home. James relays Michael's version that Rudolf dropped him from Mars; Rudolf says they talked it through and stayed friends to the end
FashionClub Kid leader
- S4E8 · Richie Rich · 45 mentions in this episode
Called Richie to the Style Summit, took him under his wing and pushed him onto talk shows; Richie says he tried to look after him as the drugs took over
FashionClub Kid ringleader
- S6E3 · Chi Chi Valenti & Johnny Dynell · 7 mentions in this episode
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
On the scene timeline
November 1983 · 656 Sixth Avenue
Peter Gatien turns a church into Limelight
A deconsecrated Episcopal church on Sixth Avenue becomes the most notorious room in the city, and the first brick of Gatien's empire.
1990 · US daytime television
The Club Kids invade daytime television
Michael Alig's crew take their looks onto Geraldo, Donahue and Joan Rivers, turning going out into a national spectacle.
1992 · 218 West 47th Street
Club USA opens in Times Square
Gatien's neon fever dream, built as a theme park of nightlife, complete with a slide between floors.
1996 · New York
The Club Kid era ends with the Angel Melendez case
Michael Alig kills Andre "Angel" Melendez and later pleads guilty to manslaughter. The case collapses the scene just as Gatien's clubs face a federal drug investigation.
2020 · Toronto
Peter Gatien publishes Club King
The memoir, written from Toronto after deportation, reopens the argument over who really killed New York nightlife.
Late 1980s · Limelight
Waltpaper: Joins Michael Alig's Club Kids at the Limelight
Original Club Kid famous for head-to-toe looks. (Night Fever guest, Season 1, Episode 6.)
1987 ·
Filthy Mouth Contest (Danceteria)
Michael Alig's first party; James was a judge. Source shows a 1987 contest card from the Palladium, not Danceteria
1992 ·
Silence of the Lunch Pails
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