PHOTOS: Step back in time to New York’s queer club scene of the 1990s

The following is an excerpt from GETTING IN: NYC Club Flyers from the Gay 1990s by David Kennerley with a foreword by Michael Musto, available now from Daken Press. The coffee table book features over 230 eye-popping images of club flyers, as well as interviews with drag queens, club kids, DJs, and celebs from the era. Order your copy at GettingInClubBook.com.

Back in the 1990s, massive venues like the Roxy, Tunnel, Limelight, and Palladium attracted a diverse, crazy quilt of drag queens, Club Kids, lesbians, trans people, Chelsea Boys, adventurous straights –– and even bi-curious types like me. We were a glorious, throbbing confederacy of misfits.

I may not have been a look-at-me Club Kid or chiseled Chelsea Boy, but I found my groove.

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