Andrew Kingston – “This Weird Cable Program”: Queer Atlanta and the Archives of The American Music Show at Emory’s Rose Library

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“This Weird Cable Program”: Queer Atlanta and the Archives of The American Music Show at Emory’s Rose Library Andrew Kingston, Emory University Tweet!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?’http’:’https’;if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+’://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js’;fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, ‘script’, ‘twitter-wjs’); RuPaul – now an Emmy award winner and cultural force of nature – moved to Atlanta in the summer of 1976, fifteen years old and completely unknown. Five years later, after dropping out of high school and beginning his “dragucation” he began to actively seek out his future stardom.1 He describes this moment in his autobiography, Lettin’ It All Hang Out: It was the summer of ‘81. I was wondering how my life was…
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