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FRANKIE KNUCKL, DIS'S REVENGE, AND GAY BLACK MIC'S TRIUMPH
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 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 Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton wrote their 1999 history of the DJ (th dance mic), Last Night a DJ Saved My Life:In Chigo, as the seventi beme the eighti, if you were black and gay your church may well have been Frankie Knuckl' Warehoe, a three-story factory buildg the cy's solate wt si dtrial zone. The racist and homophobic Dis Demoln Night, held July 12, 1979, largely killed dis's mastream ol, but Knuckl stuck wh , ridg through the '70s and well to the '90s and beyond.