Meanwhile glamour was defined as drinking urine. Their glamorous ringleader was a murderer that went to prison and died of an overdose. LMAO they was addicted to drugs hunny.
@ she’s inspired by way more than bowie. She takes stuff from all over the place. I could give a couple examples like her name is based on a queen song called radio Gaga and she had her looks like Leigh Bowery. People can be inspired by more than one person at a time.
Richie Rich is one of the TOP FASHION DESIGNERS IN THE WORLD!!! Heatherette, look it up!! You better WERK bitch!!! James st James is another SUCCESSFUL CLUB KID!! A FABULOUS AUTHOR!!! RUPAUL... Need I say more?! RUPAUL'S DRAG RACE have changed the lives of so many ppl including me!
Off topic, but through a 20th century lense am AMAZED at how much touching Donahue does of his female audience members and guests. At the time, he was considered this wonderful male ally of feminism, but the hand-holding and hugging seems to be REALLY getting in their space without consent. On topic, you look fabulous, James St. James.
I am so sad we do not have these clubs. The club kids were not appreciated enough. I have a collection of costumes and makeup ideas that are just stored away with nowhere to take them. I have always wanted to create a place like this to go and have fun.
While their main idea of expressing themselves and be whoever they wanted to be is a positive message...after watching "Shockumentary", the craziness of the drugs and gross-out shock nature of their parties is just NOT, it's twisted, sick and that's something they NEVER talked about on these shows they appeared... Indeed, the looks are not the problem, it's great!...what was behind all that was the main problem and look how it ended...with the death of one of their own.
James, you don't have any other talk show videos you taped, do you? If so, I wish you would upload them!!! I watch these over and over in-between reading your book over and over, I love it all it's awesome
thanks for adding this I want to know if you could please add the footage that was aired on the geraldo show that was copied in party monster I love how close the two are and have not seen the real footage for a long time.
Answer from IMDB "Party Monster" trivia: The "Club Kids" were a real group of people in the 1980s, young people (usually twenty five was considered too old) who would go to clubs and make themselves into celebrities with bizarre antics and self-styled images. The Club Kids made their entire livings based on the fact that they were Club Kids - party organizers, club owners, and talk show hosts paid them obscene amounts of money simply to show up and party.
lady gaga is being discussed because she is from new york and has been very open about the fact that the club kids have inspired her in many ways mainly her style..... no club kids... no gaga & how is she ripping them off ? shes is giving them credit she is sending pretty much the same message to a newer audience. im pretty sure they all are very happy about the fact they inspire one of the biggest pop icons right now!!!!!
6 degrees of separation, Miss Damiana! I popped this out of the HuffPo post to see who had this wonderful footage...I was pleasantly somewhat not surprised to find it was you! Where EVER did you come across this? If I missed, I RuPologize, but what year is this from?
The fact that the host says "do you let black people in?" Just shows how much of a backward thinker he is. This video is old and the scene is now more or less completely underground, from most mainstream media anyways .(obviously new media still keeps it alive, I follow the club kids on Facebook) but because of the extreme sudden outburst of it in the New York club scene it did shock everyone, being shocked by change is normal but it's acceptance that wasn't made, because we've began to fear change rather than accept it. At the end of the day people should be, and rightfully so, free to dress, look, decorate and express themselves in whatever way they choose. And why bother arguing over stupid comments by anti gay anti expressive anti artists anti club kid, morons who clearly got some sort of intrigue and therefore watched this video but just had to say something fucking idiotic about it because of their own standards and fears. By arguing back we feed they're insecurities. Having an argument in a RU-vid comment section is as useful as a chocolate fucking teapot. Long live free spirits, long live fabulous clothes, long live glitter and sequins and long live the club kids! Peace x
actually i think he is just a normal guy, trying to communicate an idea that is generations ahead of him, I think he did pretty well, he even corrected himself for calling them nayerdowells.
