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Dean Johnson
Host · Promoter
Biography
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Rooms they shaped
Save the Robots
1983–1993 (with interruption 1984–1986) · Alphabet City / East Village, Manhattan
Host, Queercore musician (Dean and the Weenies, the Velvet Mafia); worked the door in a mini-dress at 4 a.m. Appeared in Mondo New York (1988) performing at the club.
The World
c. 1982–1991 (licensed from Sept. 17, 1987) · Alphabet City / East Village, Manhattan
Promoter, Cross-dressing singer and promoter; founded Rock 'n' Roll Fag Bar (Tuesdays, from 1987) with his band Dean & The Weenies. Died 2007.
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