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FRANKIE KNUCKL, DIS'S REVENGE, AND GAY BLACK MIC'S TRIUMPH
The man many ll the godfather of hoe,, an out gay producer, remixer, began DJg New York the early 1970s while still a teenager, years before the dis boom which proved to be the first flowerg of morn dance mic.
While Ron Hardy was entrancg a largely gay, uptown crowd at the Mic Box, Knuckl troduced the sound to many of the Southsi producers who ma wav durg the 1980s: Marshall Jefferson, Larry Heard, Adonis, Steve “Silk” Hurley and at least half a dozen others. He released two albums, “Collectn of Classics” and “Out There: 2001 Mardi Gras Sydney Gay & Lbian”. In Frankie Knuckl, Chigo’s gay and lbian dienc have helped to nurture a talent wh seemgly boundls potential.
Intertg Facts: Knuckl was popular at the Warehoe, a members-only club for largely black gay men. As a gay man, Knuckl was one of the early beneficiari of a rapidly changg society and the nascent dis scene was a primary driver of those chang. The duo worked together at two of the most important early diss: the Gallery (prid over by Nicky Siano, whose smooth on-beat mixg style was enormoly fluential) and the Contental Baths, a multi-room gay bathhoe on Manhattan’s Wt Seventy-fourth Street.