Cynthia Carr celebrates the launch of her new biography, the first full portrait of the queer icon and Warhol superstar Candy Darling. In conversation with Kate Bornstein. This event was held at Rizzoli bookstore on March 19, 2024.
Resurged interest in Candy Darling brought me to you. Thank you for the interview and the research and writing on Candy. This is unexpected inspiration for my writing on the cultural history of local a cross-dresser and the closeted gay community that I lived with before Stonewall. I could see then the hell they went through. I will remember you Cynthia.
In 1970, a one-time roommate of mine was friends with Jeremiah Newton. In those days, Jeremiah was skinny and pretty, witty and smart. With his shag-cut, dark brown hair, he looked like a finer-featured Mick Jagger, the Mick Jagger of "Performance" or "Gimme Shelter". I have an indelible memory of Jeremiah making his entrance at Columbia University's gay dances. He would time his arrival so he was ascending Earl Hall's curving stairs to the dance floor, just as the third verse of "Sympathy for the Devil" was playing. One first heard, then saw Jeremiah, sometimes in red lipstick (though not in drag), coming up the stairs, singing that song's falsetto "Woo-Hoo"' chorus. Woo-Hoo Let me please introduce myself Woo-Hoo I'm a man of wealth and taste Woo-Hoo
