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RIPRENDIAMO A PARLARE DI QUESTA CORRENTE LETTERARIA, ARTISTICE, CREATIVA, ENTUSIASMANTE, CHE HA SCONVOLTO LE NOTTI NEWYORKESI E NO SOLO, PARLANDO DEI LORO CREATOR E PROTAGONISTI.

INIZIAMO CON IL CO-FONDATORE "MICHAEL ALIG"Michael Alig. An inspiration to thousands of lost and creative suburbanites turned club kids over the years. Immortalized by Macaulay Culkin in the film Party Monster. In jail for the murder of Angel Melendez. After seeing a documentary about Alig, I, too, found myself enraptured by his story. Murder aside, I found many parallels between Alig’s life and my own -- from his close relationship to a lovably eccentric mother to his escape from a suffocating small town. Somewhere in my own galaxy I empathized with the creative highs and lows of Alig’s world. I wrote a song about him. I visited him in prison while touring in support of my album Now’s the Right Time to Feel Good. We’ve become long term pen pals and confidantes. As Alig's release from prison inches closer, I sent him some questions.  Underground club sceneAlig moved to New York to attend college at Fordham University from which he later dropped out. He began working at Danceteria in 1983 as a bus boy. A natural at throwing parties with little or no resources he soon began to rise in New York's party scene.^[1] Alig was mentored by socialite James St. James and club owner Peter Gatien while rising in popularity and prominence in the national underground club scene. Alig was also influential in the early promotion of his then boyfriend DJ Keoki^[4] who studied under DJ Brian Telfair, top DJ at the time in Alig's and Gatien's clubs, most notably the New York club The Limelight, owned by Gatien and designed by Ari Bahat.^[5] In Sept 1995 the Limelight was closed by the police on suspicion of drug trafficking,^[6] but subsequently reopened several times during the 1990s.^[7] In September 2003, it reopened under the name "Avalon".Alig's Club Kids

Alig's other protégés included Gitsie, Jennytalia, Robert "Freez" Riggs, Richie Rich, Charlie "Dash" Prestano, Amanda Lepore, RuPaul, and many other Club Kid personalities^{[citation needed]}. The Club Kids' outrageousness resulted in their appearing on the news and the television talk show circuit—they appeared on the Geraldo Rivera show five times.

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