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GAY HISTORY – APRIL 26, 1977: STUD 54 OPENS NEW YORK CY
‘We wanted a mix of rich, poor, gay, straight, old and young … somebody topls uld dance wh a woman ballgown and tiara’ * was ian schrager gay *
It was a time, post-Stonewall, when “the gay populatn were settg the absolute cultural standard this town. ” And he and Rubell went to gay clubs bee he thought straight on “felt ntrived, and I always felt unfortable, ” he says. “I would go to the gay nightclubs and there was this vibe: There was sex everywhere.
* was ian schrager gay *
Schrager’s ecstatic memori of gay life the ’70s are one of the odr thgs about him, given that he is heterosexual (married twice, both tim to ballet dancers, wh five kids). Stud, and the publicy around , helped take gay culture, or at least a gltery image of , to the mastream.
And yet, for the longt time, he somehow didn’t know that Rubell, whom he’s scribed as someone he had such a close bs partnership wh he was practilly married to, was himself gay.