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A Night at the Sweet Gum Head: Drag, Drugs, Disco, and Atlanta’s Gay Revolution
Maybe someday
42
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I Index Overall Rating
Readers
74/100Critics
10/100Scholars
Author:
Martin Padgett
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Date:
June 1, 2021
The story of 1970s gay Atlanta through its bedazzling drag clubs and burgeoning rights activism.
What The Reviewers Say
Structurally audacious.
... deeply researched, fascinating.
Padgett sketches both profiles with evenhanded journalistic precision while grounding the book’s core at the Sweet Gum Head.
Padgett can be a little too on-the-nose, and his selection of profile subjects feels somewhat arbitrary. Still, LGBTQ history buffs will be thrilled to see the Deep South take a turn in the spotlight..
