Club Kids

• S6E1 · James St. James▶Play from 00:00:32 · 7 mentions in this episode

  Alig-era nightlife scene James joined

  FashionScene defined by outrageous costumes and looks

• S1E1 · Dianne Brill▶Play from 00:00:39 · 3 mentions in this episode

  The next wave of the scene, which she embraced

  FashionScene defined by costumes and looks

• S1E2 · Michael Musto▶Play from 00:00:47 · 13 mentions in this episode

  The scene that rose after Warhol's death

  FashionScene defined by costumes and looks

• S1E3 · Lisa Edelstein▶Play from 00:00:55 · 1 mention in this episode

  Celebrated in James's intro

  FashionClub Kid looks

• S2E3 · Susanne Bartsch▶Play from 00:35:59 · 3 mentions in this episode

  Brought to the Copa; and James jokes she's responsible for them

  FashionClub Kid looks

• S3E1 · Patricia Field▶Play from 00:46:28 · 1 mention in this episode

  James praises Field for always supporting the drag and club kid community

  FashionScene defined by costumes and looks

• S3E6 · Eric Goode▶Play from 00:40:22 · 1 mention in this episode

  The phenomenon Michael Alig began

  FashionOutrageous costumes

• S1E7 · Rudolf Piper▶Play from 00:00:55 · 11 mentions in this episode

  Started in the Tunnel basement, dancing in the main room for their drink tickets. Rudolf sees their dressing up as the start of cosplay; he says a group dressed as villains after the Batman film broke into warehouses until he threatened their drink tickets

  FashionHalloween-costume looks (see Mood)

• S4E8 · Richie Rich▶Play from 00:00:28 · 27 mentions in this episode

  Richie is introduced as a legendary club kid; Michael introduced himself as head of the club kids, and Richie says Heatherette put club kid fashion on the runway

  FashionScene defined by costumes and looks

• S6E3 · Chi Chi Valenti & Johnny Dynell▶Play from 00:34:08 · 6 mentions in this episode

  Johnny first saw them at the Tunnel and liked only about ten, so Jackie 60 had a no-Club-Kid policy

  FashionClub Kid costumes

• S5E3 · Amanda Lepore▶Play from 00:00:46 · 6 mentions in this episode

  Amanda was an original Club Kid

• S6E8 · William Norwich▶Play from 00:44:43 · 2 mentions in this episode

  Fenton asks what Billy made of James and the club kids

• S1E4 · Peter Gatien▶Play from 00:00:29 · 8 mentions in this episode

  Peter calls them young people who loved going out somewhere safe - harmless, 'nickel-time' kids, not drug dealers, as his investigator told him

• S1E10 · Joey Arias▶Play from 00:01:25 · 4 mentions in this episode

  Joey thought they were wild kids trying to prove something - then became friends with some

• S3E8 · Larry Tee▶Play from 00:03:54 · 8 mentions in this episode

  Born at Celebrity Club, James says

• S4E4 · Zaldy▶Play from 00:00:28 · 7 mentions in this episode

  Zaldy found 'his people' among them at the Tunnel

• S2E1 · Michelle Visage▶Play from 00:23:32 · 2 mentions in this episode

  Michelle knew the legends

On the scene timeline

1. 1990 · US daytime television

   The Club Kids invade daytime television

   Michael Alig's crew take their looks onto Geraldo, Donahue and Joan Rivers, turning going out into a national spectacle.

   Peter GatienMichael MustoSusanne BartschMichael AligJames St. JamesAmanda LeporeRichie Rich

2. 1991 · Limelight

   Waltpaper: Arrives in New York in July; his first sight of the city's scene is Wigstock in Union Square

   Second-wave Club Kid, artist and author of New York Club Kids. (Night Fever guest, Season 1, Episode 6.)

   Waltpaper

3. 1990s · Limelight

   Waltpaper: Go-go dances at the Limelight and becomes one of Michael Alig's second-wave Club Kids

   Second-wave Club Kid, artist and author of New York Club Kids. (Night Fever guest, Season 1, Episode 6.)

   Waltpaper

4. Early 1990s · Limelight

   Christopher Comp & Really Denise: Club Kids at the Limelight

   Original Club Kids. (Night Fever guest, Season 5, Episode 7.)

   Christopher Comp & Really Denise

5. 1980s · Limelight

   James St. James: Becomes a fixture of downtown nightlife and one of the original Club Kids

   Club Kid legend, author and the host of Night Fever. (Night Fever guest, Season 6, Episode 1.)

   James St. James

6. 1992 ·

   Silence of the Lunch Pails

   Jackie 60's 1992 night mocking the Club Kids (have the It Twins stopped screaming yet?), its invitation with Michael Alig's head on the Silence of the Lambs poster. Chi Chi says it was shown in a Stonewall 50 exhibit and they never topped it

   Chi Chi Valenti & Johnny Dynell

7. 1986 · The Tunnel

   The Tunnel

   Johnny played its main floor around 1986-87, where the voguers danced outside his booth and he first saw the Club Kids

   Chi Chi Valenti & Johnny Dynell

8. 1996 ·

   Killing of Angel Melendez (1996)

   James asks whether it set off the federal case; Peter calls it a public-relations disaster for the club kids

   Peter Gatien

9. 1986 · Limelight

   Limelight

   Joey's first Billie Holiday in 1986; and the Club Kids era

   Joey Arias

10. 1987 · Celebrity Club

    Celebrity Club

    Larry's party - first in Atlanta, then in the Tunnel basement in 1987: the Top 10 countdown, the hot body contest and the birth of the Club Kids

    Larry Tee

Also named on these cards

Pops up in the guests' stories

In the same rooms (aka the gang)