Club Kids#Members

The group was first popularized by club promoter Michael Alig, James St. James, DJ Keoki, Ernie Glam, Julie Jewels, It Twins and Michael Tronn in the late 1980s, and, throughout the 1990s, grew to include Amanda Lepore, Waltpaper (Walt Cassidy), Christopher Comp, Jennytalia (Jenny Dembrow), Desi Monster (Desi Santiago), Astro Erle, Keda, Kabuki Starshine, and Richie Rich.{{cite book |last1=Cassidy |first1=Walt |title=NEW YORK: CLUB KIDS by Waltpaper |date=2019 |publisher=Damiani |location=Italy/New York |isbn=978-8862086578 }}

The Club Kids made long-lasting contributions to mainstream art, fashion and popular culture. According to former Club Kid Waltpaper (Walt Cassidy), "The nightclub for me was like a laboratory, a place where you were encouraged and rewarded for experimentation."{{cite book|editor-last=Smith|editor-first=Raven|date=2008 |title=Club Kids: From Speakeasies to Boombox and Beyond|location= London, UK|publisher=Black Dog Publishing}} At the height of the group's popularity, Alig began to spiral into heavy drug use, adding drug dealers to the Club Kids roster and Peter Gatien's payroll; an increasing number of Club Kids became addicted to drugs.{{cite episode|last=Kurtis|first=Bill (host)|date=2000|title=Dancing, Drugs, and Murder|series= American Justice (Series 126)|location= New York City}}

The movement began to decline when Rudy Giuliani took office as mayor of New York in 1994, targeting the city's nightlife industry with his Quality of Life campaign. It eventually collapsed after Alig was arrested for the killing and dismemberment of his roommate and fellow club kid Andre "Angel" Melendez, and Peter Gatien was charged with tax evasion and deported to Canada.

The term "club kid", coined by club owner Rudolf Piper, is now widely used as an archetypal style and personality reference,{{cite book |last1=Cassidy |first1=Walt |title=NEW YORK: CLUB KIDS by Waltpaper |date=2019 |publisher=Damiani |location=Italy/New York |isbn=978-8862086578 }} but was originally focused, from 1988 to 2001, on a shifting hierarchical group of New York based personalities that organized and promoted specific nightclub venues, tours to various cities and events, such at the Style Summits{{cite book |last1=Cassidy |first1=Walt |title=NEW YORK: CLUB KIDS by Waltpaper |date=2019 |publisher=Damiani |location=Italy/New York |isbn=978-8862086578 }} and Outlaw Parties;{{cite news|last=Bollen|first=Christopher|url=http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/46042881.html|date=April 19, 2010|title=In a rare interview with Interview magazine, King of the Club Kids Michael Alig discusses the history of the Club Kids at length, his experiences in behind bars, his plans of life post-jail and why he thinks Lady Gaga would have been the perfect Club Kid|work=Interview Magazine}} Michael Alig once estimated that the group expanded to include up to "750 in the early '90s at different levels",{{cite news|work=Interview Magazine|last=Bollen|first=Christopher|url=http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/46042881.html|date=April 19, 2010|title=In a rare interview with Interview magazine, King of the Club Kids Michael Alig discusses the history of the Club Kids at length, his experiences in behind bars, his plans of life post-jail and why he thinks Lady Gaga would have been the perfect Club Kid}} Michael Alig and rival personality, James St. James (born James Clark), first identified as "club kids" at nightclubs such at The World and Tunnel in 1988.{{cite book |last1=Cassidy |first1=Walt |title=NEW YORK: CLUB KIDS by Waltpaper |date=2019 |publisher=Damiani |location=Italy/New York |isbn=978-8862086578 }} Other documented personalities include:

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• Amanda Lepore
• Astro Earl (also styled "Astro Erle"){{cite web|website=World of Film Geek|title=REVIEW: Glory Daze – The Life and Times of Michael Alig (2015)|date=December 8, 2016|url=https://worldfilmgeek.com/2016/12/08/review-glory-daze-the-life-and-times-of-michael-alig-2015/}}{{cite news|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/15/fashion/michael-alig-the-former-king-of-the-club-kids-after-prison.html?_r=0|title=After Prison, No After-Hours: Michael Alig, the Former King of the Club Kids, After Prison|last=Graymay|first=Kevin|date= May 14, 2014}}
• Chris Couture{{cite book |last1=Cassidy |first1=Walt |title=NEW YORK: CLUB KIDS by Waltpaper |date=2019 |publisher=Damiani |location=Italy/New York |isbn=978-8862086578 }}
• Christina Superstar
• Christopher Amazing{{cite book |last1=Cassidy |first1=Walt |title=NEW YORK: CLUB KIDS by Waltpaper |date=2019 |publisher=Damiani |location=Italy/New York |isbn=978-8862086578 }}
• Christopher Comp{{cite news|url=https://nypost.com/2003/01/23/the-day-the-dancing-died-catching-up-with-the-club-kids-in-true-crime-indie/|title=The Day The Dancing Died – Catching Up With the Club Kids in True-Crime Indie|last=Turner|first=Megan|date= January 23, 2003 | work=New York Post}}
• Clara the Carefree Chicken,{{cite web|website=WorldofWonder.net|title=The History of Party Monster|last=Bailey|first=Fenton|date=October 28, 2014 |url=http://worldofwonder.net/history-party-monster/}} the mascot of Alig's weekly Disco 2000 parties{{cite news|work=The Weekend Guardian|date=April 19, 1997|title=Death by Decadence}}
• Codie Ravioli{{cite book |last1=Cassidy |first1=Walt |title=NEW YORK: CLUB KIDS by Waltpaper |date=2019 |publisher=Damiani |location=Italy/New York |isbn=978-8862086578 }}
• Cynthia Social Lies{{cite book |last1=Cassidy |first1=Walt |title=NEW YORK: CLUB KIDS by Waltpaper |date=2019 |publisher=Damiani |location=Italy/New York |isbn=978-8862086578 }}
• Dan Dan the Naked Man
• David Alphabet
• Desi Monster (Desi Santiago){{Cite news|url=http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/05/what-michael-aligs-club-kids-are-doing-now.html|title=What Michael Alig's Club Kids Are Doing Now|newspaper=Daily Intelligencer|language=en|access-date=2017-01-31}}
• Lisa E (Lisa Edelstein){{cite web|last=O'Donnel|first=Kevin|title=Lisa Edelstein's Life as an '80s Celebutante Revealed!|url=http://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/lisa-edelsteins-life-as-an-80s-celebutante-revealed|publisher=Bravo|date=December 10, 2014|access-date=September 4, 2017}}
• Ernie Glam (Ernie Garcia){{cite AV media|title=Glory Daze: The Life and Times of Michael Alig|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1871279/combined|date=2015|last=Fernández|first=Ramón (Writer and Director)|publisher=Electric Theater Pictures|format=Crime documentary}}
• Ernie the Pee Drinker
• Patricia Field{{cite web|title=Interview With Richie Rich|last=Hruska|first=Rachelle|date= June 24, 2008|website=vimeo|url=http://vimeo.com/1216292}}
• George the Pee Drinker
• Girlina (Lina Bradford, also known as DJ Lina){{cite web |last1=Garner |first1=Glenn |title=DJ Lina Talks Barbie Dolls, Club Kids & Whoopi Goldberg |url=https://www.out.com/popnography/2017/2/02/dj-lina-talks-barbie-dolls-club-kids-whoopi-goldberg |website=Out |date=February 2, 2017 |access-date=3 November 2020}}
• Gitsie (or Gitsey, Cynthia Haataja){{cite news|title=Obituary: Cynthia "Gitsey" Haataja|work=The News-Press|date=January 16, 1998| url=http://m.legacy.com/obituaries/news-press/obituary.aspx?n=&pid=18657323&referrer=0&preview=True}}{{cite news|work=The New York Times|title=Possible Trial Witness Dies|date=January 14, 1998|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/14/nyregion/possible-trial-witness-dies.html }}
• Goldy Loxxx
• Brooke Humphries
• Ida Slapter{{cite web|website=metroactive.com|date=August 16, 1999|url=http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sfmetro/08.16.99/discobloodbath-9931.html |title=Clubland Horrorcoaster (Celebutante Tell-All: 'Disco Bloodbath' is a drug epic spiked with celebrity and murder; James St. James illuminates the {{sic|glamou|rous|nolink=y}} monsters of the club scene)|last=Goldberg|first=Michelle}}
• It Twins (Robert and Tim)
• Jennytalia (also styled "Jenny Talia" or "Genetalia",{{cite news|work=The Daily Beast|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/28/the-party-monster-lives-for-the-applause-michael-alig-s-second-act.html|title=The Party Monster Lives for the Applause: Michael Alig's Second Act|last=Dickson|first=Caitlin |date=February 28, 2014}} née Jenny Dembrow){{cite news|work=New York Post|last=Alig|first=Michael|title=Club Kid killer relives bloody crime

|date=May 12, 2014 |url=https://nypost.com/2014/05/12/party-monster-relives-catfight-that-ended-in-murder/ }}

• Julie Jewels (Editor of Project X magazine){{cite book |last1=Cassidy |first1=Walt |title=NEW YORK: CLUB KIDS by Waltpaper |date=2019 |publisher=Damiani |location=Italy/New York |isbn=978-8862086578 }}{{cite news|last=Musto|first=Michael|work=Village Voice|title=NY Mirror|date=March 26, 2002|url=http://www.villagevoice.com/news/ny-mirror-6414027}}
• Julius Teaser
• Junkie Jonathan (also known as "Jonathan Junkie")
• Kabuki
• Kate Harwood{{cite book |last1=Cassidy |first1=Walt |title=NEW YORK: CLUB KIDS by Waltpaper |date=2019 |publisher=Damiani |location=Italy/New York |isbn=978-8862086578 }}
• Keda{{cite book |last1=Cassidy |first1=Walt |title=NEW YORK: CLUB KIDS by Waltpaper |date=2019 |publisher=Damiani |location=Italy/New York |isbn=978-8862086578 }}
• Kenny Kenny, the group's door person{{cite news|date=August 31, 2014|title=After Dark: Meet Kenny Kenny, Visual Poet And Nightlife Icon|last=Nichols|first=James Michael|work=Huffington Post|url=http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5742624}}{{Cite news|url=http://mic.com/articles/88587/the-stories-behind-these-striking-photos-show-club-kids-are-more-than-just-pretty-faces#.lTeVwq9pT|title=The Stories Behind These Striking Photos Show Club Kids Are More Than Just Pretty Faces|newspaper=Mic|access-date=2017-01-31}}
• Keoki (also known as "Superstar DJ Keoki", born Keoni Franconi{{cite news|newspaper=Honolulu Star-Bulletin|date=December 7, 2001|title=Superstar DJ Keoki keeps the party going|last=Chun|first=Gary C.W.}})
• Lady Bunny (born Jon Ingle)
• Lahoma van Zant (Jon Witherspoon)
• Larry Tee
• Lil Keni{{cite book |last1=Cassidy |first1=Walt |title=NEW YORK: CLUB KIDS by Waltpaper |date=2019 |publisher=Damiani |location=Italy/New York |isbn=978-8862086578 }}
• Lila Wolfe{{cite book |last1=Cassidy |first1=Walt |title=NEW YORK: CLUB KIDS by Waltpaper |date=2019 |publisher=Damiani |location=Italy/New York |isbn=978-8862086578 }}
• Karliin Mann
• Magenta{{cite book |last1=Cassidy |first1=Walt |title=NEW YORK: CLUB KIDS by Waltpaper |date=2019 |publisher=Damiani |location=Italy/New York |isbn=978-8862086578 }}
• Mavis{{cite news|work=The Observer|url=http://observer.com/1999/08/club-kids-on-the-skids-the-horrid-lovely-alig-epic/|title=Club Kids on the Skids: The Horrid, Lovely Alig Epic|last=Doonan|first=Simon|date=August 9, 1999}}
• Michael Tronn
• Michael T
• Michelle Visage
• Andre "Angel" Melendez{{cite news|work=The Daily Beast|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/28/the-party-monster-lives-for-the-applause-michael-alig-s-second-act.html|title=The Party Monster Lives for the Applause; Michael Alig's Second Act|date=February 28, 2014}}
• Richie Rich
• Robert "Freeze" Riggs
• RuPaul
• Sacred Boy
• Screamin Rachael Cain
• Shuck E (Chuckie){{cite book |last1=Cassidy |first1=Walt |title=NEW YORK: CLUB KIDS by Waltpaper |date=2019 |publisher=Damiani |location=Italy/New York |isbn=978-8862086578 }}
• Sophia Lamar
• Susanne Bartsch{{cite news|magazine=Paper|url=http://www.papermag.com/kenny-kenny-interview-1805391801.html|title='I Never Want to Stop Dressing Up': Talking to Nightlife Legend Kenny Kenny|last=Musto|first=Michael |date=May 18, 2016}}
• Sushi{{cite book |last1=Cassidy |first1=Walt |title=NEW YORK: CLUB KIDS by Waltpaper |date=2019 |publisher=Damiani |location=Italy/New York |isbn=978-8862086578 }}
• Thairin Smothers
• Tobell von Cartier
• Vivacious{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/pollo-del-mar/laganja-estranja-sending-drag-race_b_4954176.html|title=Laganja Estranja: Sending Vivacious Home was Drag Race Reality Check|last=Mar|first=Pollo Del|date=2014-03-13|website=Huffington Post|language=en-US|access-date=2019-01-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170810184507/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pollo-del-mar/laganja-estranja-sending-drag-race_b_4954176.html|archive-date=2017-08-10|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.standardhotels.com/culture/hot_tea_vivacious_drag_race|title=Hot Tea with Vivacious: the Club Kid Days|date=2019-01-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190504211134/https://www.standardhotels.com/culture/hot_tea_vivacious_drag_race|archive-date=2019-05-04}}
• Waltpaper (Walt Cassidy){{cite book |last1=Cassidy |first1=Walt |title=NEW YORK: CLUB KIDS by Waltpaper |date=2019 |publisher=Damiani |location=Italy/New York |isbn=978-8862086578 }}
• Whillyem (DJ - Limelight, Club USA, Tunnel){{cite book |last1=Cassidy |first1=Walt |title=NEW YORK: CLUB KIDS by Waltpaper |date=2019 |publisher=Damiani |location=Italy/New York |isbn=978-8862086578 }}
• Zaldy{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/fashion/zaldy-onetime-club-kid-model-and-costumer-to-pop-stars-returns-to-fashion-week.html|title=Zaldy, Onetime Club Kid, Model and Costumer to Pop Stars, Returns to Fashion Week|newspaper=NYTimes|date=September 2014|language=en|access-date=2018-05-07}}

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• Waltpaper, club kid and author of New York: Club Kids and The Club Kids by Waltpaper{{cite journal |last1=Bollen |first1=Christopher |title=WALT CASSIDY WALKS US THROUGH THE WILD GLAMORAMA OF NEW YORK CITY'S CLUB KIDS |journal=Interview Magazine |date=September 3, 2019 |url=https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/walt-cassidy-waltpaper-new-york-city-club-kids}}{{cite book |last1=Cassidy |first1=Walt |title=NEW YORK: CLUB KIDS by Waltpaper |date=2019 |publisher=Damiani |location=Italy/New York |isbn=978-8862086578 }}
• Michael Musto, Village Voice columnist and partygoer alongside the Club Kids
• James St. James, author of Disco Bloodbath: A Fabulous but True Tale of Murder in Clubland, a 1999 memoir of James' life as a Manhattan club kid, as well as Michael Alig's murder of Andre "Angel" Melendez. The memoir was retitled Party Monster after the 2003 movie that starred Macaulay Culkin, Seth Green, Chloë Sevigny, and Marilyn Manson.
• Nelson Sullivan, videographer and host of cultural gatherings and events{{cite news|title=Nelson Sullivan: Pioneering chronicler of NYC nightlife |url=http://dangerousminds.net/comments/nelson_sullivan_pioneering_chronicler_of_nyc_nightlife_in_the_1980s|website=dangerousminds.net}}
• Ernie Glam, Michael Alig, creators and hosts of the YouTube Channel show "Peeew!" which featured interviews of Club Kids and the history of the Club Kids.

Alig moved to New York City from his hometown, South Bend, in 1984 and began hosting small events. In 1987, he supplanted Andy Warhol as a leading New York partier; in an article in Interview, Alig said: "We were all going to become Warhol Superstars and move into The Factory. The funny thing was that everybody had the same idea: not to dress up but to make fun of people who dressed up. We changed our names like they did, and we dressed up in outrageously crazy outfits in order to be a satire of them—only we ended up becoming what we were satirizing."{{Cite news|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-comeback-kid-michael-aligs-return-to-new-york-nightlife/|title=The Comeback Kid: Michael Alig's Return to New York Nightlife |newspaper=Thump|language=en-UK|access-date=2017-01-31}}

The Club Kids' aesthetic emphasized outrageousness, "fabulousness", and sex. Gender expression was fluid, and members embraced DIY. In Musto's words: "It was a statement of individuality and sexuality which ran the gamut, and it was a form of tapping into an inner fabulousness within themselves and bringing it out."{{cite web|url=http://www.thefader.com/2014/05/02/michael-musto-on-the-prevailing-influence-of-club-kid-fashion|title=Michael Musto on the Prevailing Influence of Club Kid Fashion|website=The FADER|access-date=2017-01-31}}

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As the group's influence grew, they spread from the back rooms of lesser-known clubs to venues such as Area, Rudolf Piper's Danceteria, and the Palladium. From there, Alig and his group went on to run Peter Gatien's club network, including Club USA, Palladium, Tunnel, and The Limelight. To draw crowds into these venues, Alig and the Club Kids began holding guerilla-style "outlaw parties", where, fully costumed and ready to party, they would hijack locations like Burger King, Dunkin' Donuts, McDonald's, ATM vestibules, the then-abandoned High Line tracks, and the New York City Subway blasting music from a boombox and dancing until the police cleared them out. Alig even "threw a party in a cardboard shantytown rented from its homeless inhabitants", whom he paid with cash and crack cocaine.

He ensured that such events always happened in the vicinity of an actual club to which the group could decamp.{{Cite news|url=http://dangerousminds.net/comments/party_monster_new_michael_alig_prison_interview|title=Party Monster: New Michael Alig prison interview|date=2010-05-08|newspaper=DangerousMinds|access-date=2017-01-31}} At the height of their cultural popularity, the Club Kids toured the United States (throwing parties, "certifying" those clubs for inclusion in the Club Kids network, and recruiting new members), and appeared on several talk shows, including Geraldo, The Joan Rivers Show, The Jane Whitney Show and the Phil Donahue Show.{{cite book |last1=Cassidy |first1=Walt |title=NEW YORK: CLUB KIDS by Waltpaper |date=2019 |publisher=Damiani |location=Italy/New York |isbn=978-8862086578 }}{{Cite news|url=http://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/michael-alig/#_|title=Michael Alig|newspaper=Interview Magazine|access-date=2017-01-31}}{{Citation|last=Carrie S.|title=the joan rivers show – club kids interview|date=2006-02-20|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAm1RcsCOEg |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/aAm1RcsCOEg |archive-date=2021-12-22 |url-status=live|access-date=2017-01-31}}{{cbignore}}{{Citation|last=theflush|title=New York Club Kids on Phil Donahue talkshow|date=1993|work=Donahue 1993 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llnSZqNGJtk |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/llnSZqNGJtk |archive-date=2021-12-22 |url-status=live|access-date=2017-01-31}}{{cbignore}} (Complete TV show.)

As the 1990s began, the front line of the Club Kids became occupied by a younger group of dynamic personalities that were discovered and mentored by Alig, such as Waltpaper, Jennytalia (Jenny Dembrow), Desi Monster (Desi Santiago), Astro Erle, Christopher Comp, Pebbles, Keda, Kabuki Starshine, Sacred Boy, Sushi, Lil Keni, DJ Whillyem, Aphrodita, Lila Wolfe and Richie Rich. Many of these primary Club Kids lived together communally in large triplex apartments, and at the Chelsea Hotel and Hotel 17.

Prominent music personalities, such as Björk, then singer of the band Sugarcubes, were seen hanging with the Club Kids. With techno and the incoming rave scene, fashion began to soften into an ambiguous gender-fluid style, which melded references to the Club Kids with skate, indie, hip-hop, and grunge. Brands began casting street models and club personalities in shows, campaigns and music videos. Actress Chloë Sevigny emerged from the group at this time, and frequently modeled with Waltpaper, Jennytalia, DJ Whillyem, and Karliin Mann for brands like JYSP Johnson, Calvin Klein, and Jean-Paul Gaultier and in various editorials that showcased Rave vs. Club Kid style for magazines, including Paper, Max, Project X, Interview, Details and High Times.

The movement's decline was marked by an event on Sunday, March 17, 1996, when Alig and his roommate Robert "Freeze" Riggs killed former Limelight employee and reputed drug dealer Andre "Angel" Melendez. After nine months, Alig and Riggs were arrested.{{cite news|work=New York Post|last=Alig|first=Michael|url=https://nypost.com/2014/05/12/party-monster-relives-catfight-that-ended-in-murder/|title=Club Kid killer relives bloody crime|date=May 12, 2014 }} The group dissipated in the mid-1990s after Mayor Rudy Giuliani's "Quality of Life" crackdown on Manhattan's nightclubs.

Many of the members of the Club Kids distanced themselves from Alig as details of the murder were released and branded by the press and through documentaries such as Party Monster. Waltpaper stated in Interview: "I would say a lot of the community felt our experience of the time was hijacked by that Party Monster narrative...That's not the New York I knew. That narrative doesn't include the creativity, vibrancy, and cultural impact that I experienced." For his 2019 book, New York: Club Kids, Cassidy weaves an optimistic narrative where a bunch of misfits made a wonderland by being themselves.

• A comprehensive document of New York City nightlife and street culture in the 1990s, New York: Club Kids by Waltpaper (Walt Cassidy) (published by Damiani, 2019), re-issued as The Club Kids (published by Hotglue, 2023), provides exclusive insight into the lifestyle of this celebrated and notorious clique, supported by an extensive curation of photography and ephemera.{{cite journal|last1=Warner|first1=Marigold|title="New York Club Kids: Rewriting the Narrative"|journal=British Journal of Photography United Kingdom|date=2019|issue=August}}

• The events of Michael Alig's years as a club promoter up to his arrest are covered in James St. James's memoir Disco Bloodbath: A Fabulous but True Tale of Murder in Clubland (1999),{{cite book | first=James|last=St. James| author-link = James St. James| title = Disco Bloodbath: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland|edition= August 11, 1999|page= 2222 | publisher = Simon & Schuster| isbn= 0-684-85764-2| year = 1999}} re-released with the title Party Monster after the release of the eponymous 2003 film.{{cite magazine|last=Romano|first=Tricia |date=May 9, 2014|title=Michael Alig's Next Move? 'Club Kid Killer' Seeks Post-Prison Job|magazine= Billboard|access-date= December 22, 2014|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6084718/michael-alig-club-kid-killer-post-prison-job}}

• The documentary film Party Monster: The Shockumentary (1998) and the feature film Party Monster (2003) – both directed by former Club Kids Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbat, and focused on the murder of Melendez by Alig and Riggs – are based on St. James' memoir.
• A prison interview with Alig is featured in the documentary Limelight (2011), directed by Billy Corben and produced by Peter Gatien's daughter Jen Gatien .{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/2011/film/reviews/limelight-1117946212/|title=Review: 'Limelight'|last=Andersen|first=John|date=September 23, 2011|publisher=variety.com|access-date=December 22, 2014}}
• The documentary film Glory Daze: The Life and Times of Michael Alig (2015) reviews the creation, rise, and dispersion of the Club Kids phenomenon and the life of Michael Alig, including his return to New York City after serving a 17-year prison sentence for murdering Andre "Angel" Melendez.{{cite book|title=Glory Daze: The Life and Times of Michael Alig|last=Fernández|first=Ramón (Writer and Director)|publisher=Electric Theater Pictures|format=Crime documentary|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/glory_daze_the_life_and_times_of_michael_alig/}}{{cite web|website=IndieWire|url=http://www.indiewire.com/2016/07/glory-daze-trailer-the-life-and-times-of-michael-alig-documentary-poster-1201710179/|date=July 26, 2018|title='Glory Daze' Exclusive Trailer & Poster: Explore the Rise and Fall of Michael Alig, One of NYC's 'Club Kids', The film will be released on VOD on August 16|last=Murthi|first=Vikram}}{{cite web|title=Review – Glory Daze: The Life And Times Of Michael Alig|date=August 23, 2016|last=Bar|first=Daryl|website=Battle Royale With Cheese|url=http://battleroyalewithcheese.com/2016/08/review-glory-daze-life-times-michael-alig/}}

Ernie Glam and Jason Jay wrote "Party Clothes". It was released on the one year anniversary of Michael Alig's death.

Later Ernie Glam and Jason Jay wrote "Fashion " and released it on May 21, 2022.

Greg Tanoose wrote and produced the song "What's In" with Michael Alig and DJ Keoki. It has Michael Alig on vocals.

• Angel Melendez's friend Screamin Rachael wrote the song "Give Me My Freedom/Murder in Clubland" after Alig and Gitsie took a road trip to visit her in Denver, arriving five weeks after Melendez's "disappearance". The lyrics to a backwards loop in the song include lines "Michael, where's Angel?" and "Did someone just cry wolf, or is he dead?"{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=POIVBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT310 | title=The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and the Culture of the Night |first=Anthony|last=Haden-Guest|date=2015 | isbn=978-1-4976-9555-9 }}Alig and Rachael discuss the song and its inspiration in Party Monster: The Shockumentary.

Melendez's murder case was featured on the TV series:

• American Justice: "Dancing, Drugs, and Murder" (2000) on A&E
• Deadly Devotion: "Becoming Angel" (July 16, 2013) on Investigation Discovery{{cite web|website=Investigation Discovery|title=Becoming Angel|url=http://www.investigationdiscovery.com/tv-shows/deadly-devotion/deadly-devotion-videos/becoming-angel/}}{{cite news|title=Revisiting two 'Deadly' stories that rocked NYC|last=Stasi|first=Linda|date=July 15, 2013 |work=New York Post|url=https://nypost.com/2013/07/15/revisiting-two-deadly-stories-that-rocked-nyc/}}
• Notorious{{Citation needed|date=February 2017}}
• RuPaul's Drag Race: season nine, episode nine, titled "Your Pilot's on Fire", had a club kid theme on the runway.{{cite news |last1=Sava |first1=Oliver |title=Drag Race season 9 finally reaches excellence when the queens make TV pilots |url=https://www.avclub.com/drag-race-season-9-finally-reaches-excellence-when-the-1798191391 |access-date=December 9, 2021 |work=The A.V. Club |date=May 17, 2017}}{{cite news |last1=Nichols |first1=James Michael |title='Drag Race' Queens Explain How Club Kids Changed Drag And Fashion Forever |url= https://www.huffpost.com/entry/drag-race-club-kids_n_591ca168e4b094cdba50c180 |access-date=December 9, 2021|work=HuffPost Canada |date=May 17, 2017 |language=en-CA}}
• Saturday Night Live character Stefon (Bill Hader) is a parody of a stereotypical club kid; he and co-creator John Mulaney took inspiration from Party Monster in creating him.

• Clubland: The Monster Pop Party (2013), a musical adaptation of St. James' book Party Monster and its 2003 eponymous film adaptation, debuted April 11, 2013 at the American Repertory Theater's Club Oberon, with book, music, and lyrics by Andrew Barret Cox{{cite news|title=PHOTO CALL: Meet the Club Kids of the New Immersive Musical Adaptation of "Party Monster" at A.R.T.|last=Blank|first=Matthew |date=April 10, 2013|work=Playbill|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/photo-call-meet-the-club-kids-of-the-new-immersive-musical-adaptation-of-party-monster-at-art-com-204285}}

{{Portal|1980s|1990s}}

• Blitz Kids (New Romantics)
• Leigh Bowery
• New Romanticism
• Romo
• Raves
• Zippies

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• {{cite book|last=St. James |first=James|date=1999|title=Disco Bloodbath: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland|location= New York|publisher= Simon & Schuster|isbn= 0-684-85764-2}}
• {{cite AV media|last1=Bailey |first1=Fenton |last2=Barbato |first2=Randy (Directors)|title=Party Monster: The Shockumentary|date=1998|publisher= Picture This! Entertainment|type=documentary film}}
• {{cite book |last1=Cassidy |first1=Walt |title=NEW YORK: CLUB KIDS by Waltpaper|date=2019|publisher=Damiani |location=Italy/New York |isbn=978-8862086578 }}

• {{official website|http://www.michaelaligclubkids.com}} at michaelaligclubkids.com

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