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Dean Johnson passed away this week. Details surrounding Dean's death, along with the death of another young man are still uncertain, and an investigation is, as of this writing, still ongoing. I have included details and links about Dean's life below. Dean is survived by his father is Ellis Johnson and his sister is Beth. For several years, Dean cared for and visited his mother Linda, who succumbed to a battle with cancer in 2006. He was a devoted son, brother and friend to scores of people...
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Poets and Priests of nothing... Legends The lights went out for a few seconds and when they came back on Stevie now had on a white shawl. The last song was "Has Anyone ever Written Anything For You" and it looked like she had tears in her eyes. Maybe because this was the end of the show and she was sorry it was to end. At the end of the song where she speaks, "And when they ask her about the men in her life she said, "Well in answer to your question, they were poets, and they were priest of...
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Dean was the best at what he did. There will never be another like him. So sad.
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hello family. I needed some community around this loss so here I am. dean dean dean , i love you. rhiannon is yours forever babycakes.
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This Wednesday was going to be the next in Dean's reading series at RAPTURE. I believe it's now going to be a very big celebration of a very big man. Mr. Joe?
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Yes. This Wednesday was schedule to be the first installment of Dean's reading series, READING FOR FILTH, and take place each Wednesday in October. We will celebrate our friend, our dear family member's glorious life here at Rapture. Wherever Dean is concerned, the show always went on. Miss Webb (our very own DJ Baby K) has begun an honoring wall around the stage, and asks folks to bring any music Velvet Mafia or Dean and The Weenies; photos; DVD footage; or any other Dean-related...
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Deans death has hit me very hard even though I haven't even seen him for years. I used to know him enough to say "Hi Dean" and have a brief conversation with him. I was a teenager when I met him, and all the regulars at The Pyramid. These memories are so concrete that it is hard for me to picture anyone from that time period in any other context. I adored them all when I was kid. I worshipped them and I considered them my parents as ridiculous as it sounds. No one understands either unless...
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I met Dean in 1984 at Robots and worked with and around him on and off throughout the years. Recently we got much closer through myspace and our mutual love of writing and we joked that it was funny how after all these years we had become closer than ever over the internet. We made plans to hang out a few weeks ago at a birthday party, but they fell through and we missed each other. I had no idea that was the last chance I'd get to see him. I still have an email sitting in my mailbox wanting...
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I am completely stunned and saddened by Dean's sudden death. I think I will always remember the last time I saw him, ruling the stage at Low Life.
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This just out: Daily Intelligencer Edited by Jesse Oxfeld and Chris Rovzar with Michael Idov intel@nymag.com Intel 9/28/07 5:00 PM Promoter and Queer Icon Dean Johnson Dies Photo: Patrick McMullan Downtown icon and gay performing artist Dean Johnson died last week, friends just learned. The 6'6" promoter was found dead by authorities in Washington, DC, but remained unidentified until this week. Police are still investigating the cause. Johnson, 45, founded the iconic weekly party Rock and...
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Dean's myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/velvetmafianyc
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by some magical synchronicity "live at red rocks" arrived from netflix yesterday. i put it on the queue because *musQrat hasn't seen it but also because i heard dean tell a story about watching it with clark (of the bankheads) and wanted to get back into it myself. i'll be thinking of dean while i watch it today. RIP, VIP.
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We at NYRock.com want to share our condolences. We loved Dean and loved covering his wacky antics. Rest in peace, big boy. http://nyrock.com/conf/2006/fury57.asp http://nyrock.com/conf/2005/fury49.asp http://nyrock.com/conf17.htm
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I thought some of you who knew Dean like I did might get a kick out of this. It was the last story I worked on with Dean while I was the Editor of Next Magazine. I'm going to miss him a lot, but I take some consolation knowing that now he's jamming out upstairs with Laura Branigan...and reading all the other angels for filth with Hilly Kristal between sets. Love ya, Dean...
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Thanks for posting that Gregory T. I have a question that probably only Hattie Hathaway can answer. As I remember it, Dean was the first one to put (the now ubiquitous) skinny East Village Rock & Roll boys in their underwear up on a bar. I know it was first done at The Pyramid Club for sure but did Dean do it? Hattie?
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Oh dear. Such sad news. Two of my old show-biz partners, Tabboo! and then Philly (notoriously famed for projectile vomiting in the Pyramid production of Attack of the Spider Crabs from Star Nebula), each called me yesterday to break the news about Dean. I'm so glad that someone here wrote about remembering his laughter in the Pyramid dressing room. I remember that too, and his different laughs. He had a slow snickering laugh that could build into a bigger, volcanic eruption of laughter, sort...
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Yes daddy. He was the first to have boys in white jockey briefs - with tubesox and combat boots, if I remember correctly. It was also the uniform of the female members of Dean and the Weenies. But they wore bras. In fact, it might have been one of the female Weenies that came up with the look first, and Dean realized that it was the best look for his bar dancers.
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so sad, to have lost such a wonderful person. dean and i were friends at NYU and i was his first drummer in Dean and the Weenies. Over the last few weeks, I kept meaning to reach out to him and tell him the following: Hi Dean - I wanted you to know I have been playing drums to your first Velvet Mafia record and listening to it non stop for the last several weeks. Despite marriage, kids, suburbia, and this BS called a career, I still manage to play and your record has been my first choice for...
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An Historical Note... In our culture it seems to be of paramount importance who was "the first," when in reality any ideas we might have are the result of a barrage of influences we receive from the cradle onward. "You know you weren't the first bald drag queen, Dean," said Constance in the mid-nineties. Likewise, the first boy bar dancers at the Pyramid in jockey shorts were Greg W. (a wall streeter by day) and Sister Dimension (!). This was in 1981, before Dean came here from the wilds of...
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This sucks. This just plainly sucks. Dean will be missed. He was always there- and now he's not. A movement all by himself.
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You're right of course Hatch, the whole "being the first" is so "Francine 59" of me. First or not, Dean took everything to the extreme. I remember DJing at one of his parties. There were HUNDREDS of guys totally naked going totally ape shit! At one point he had at least 15 or 20 guys jerking off in unison on the bar (he told them all to come at the same time). It was hysterical. I got inspired and put on Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit". They came together. It was a high point in my DJ...
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This is so shocking. Ironically I'm reading this news from the Fairmont Hotel in DC as I type (here for work). I only knew Dean very casually, but he was always so kind and his sense of humor will be missed. Another piece of youth falling away ...
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I heard the news about Dean tonight. I am so sorry. He will be missed. take care Teri
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What a spectacular being Dean is/was.... We met 100 years ago when we both worked at the World.... had a lot of respect for each other, and always shared laughs... recently we reconnected via myspace and were writing back and forth.I adore you Dean, gorgeous and mean God Bless The Queen!
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Thank you for your stories and words here, they are a comfort and I know our own "velvetmafiacapo" is reading every word. For friends of Dean's who might not have seen him of late, I just wanted you to know that he went out at the very top of his game, creatively challenged, respected, even worshipped by new legions of fans, writing, performing...living! His last performance, September 8 at Low Life in the Howl Festival was a complete departure from any of his usual schticks, and yet he made...
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Another one from Mark Tusk. Dean as the crooked Irish Cop at this year's LOW LIFE @ The Howl Festival.
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I knew Dean as did many through the years via performance and always viewed him as an exotic spider - gorgeous and terrifying. The physicality alone was a phenomenon. When told 'his body could not be identified for a week' ... I made a bad black-humor joke - "What fool couldn't identify THAT body?" I only got to know the man personally very recently as a result of doing editorial for our Verbal Abuse #5. Dean's submission was a masterpiece of concision, mordant wit and insight... I barely...
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Robert Coddington, who is the archivist for Nelson Sullivan's videos, wrote and asked me to let you all know that he has been posting clips of Dean on youtube. This is a link to a video of Dean & the Weenies performing "Teri Toye" at the 5th anniv. of Pyramid . . . TERI TOYE http://youtube.com/watch?v=kYSc312UVSg
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Here's "fuck You" at the Limelight. http://youtube.com/watch?v=ucXElJkG_8g
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Legends never die. Dean embodied everything that was authentic and necessary for downtown nightlife and its congregation. Thank you Dean, you will be missed.
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Gorgeous. Teri Toye was always one of my faves. And I love how in "Fuck You" Dean comes down the stairs and has to raise the mic stand another foot.
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I got the call from Walter on Friday and it took me a long while to process. Then I sent out an email blast to whomever I thought might not have heard. I got replies from Fenton of WOW and Danny Fields, as well as Tall Paul Gellman, and a number of others from back in the day. All were unanimous in saying it would be hard to imagine NY without Dean. My memories of him are also of his laughter...the loud percussive dirty cackle that he would often greet my snide commentary with. He was one of...
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I only found out about this today! It's a very sad day in New York, we will all miss Dean and his incredible influence on the East Village gay (sub sub)culture. My fondest memory of Dean: He was hosting that ultra notorious club night "Pubic Hair Club for Men" at the Comeback. Go-go boys were required to masturbate. To get to the dancefloor you had to climb a flight of stairs in a narrow hallway, and open a door. Just as I was about to open the door, the door flies open, and there is Dean,...
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I wasn't planning on crying today...but when I heard this news, the tears pretty much took over. This is so very sad, and my heart goes out to everyone in Deans immediate circle of friends and family. Dean was a very special and wonderful person. Although he wasn't someone I spoke with on a daily basis, I was honored to call him a friend. He was without a doubt, one of the nicest, most sincere people in the downtown "scene". I first learned of his exsistance in the Eighties, the same way...
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The one good thing (maybe the only good thing) about a tragedy like this is that it brings the family back together. Just "seeing" so many familiar faces here makes me (and I'm sure Dean) very happy. When we owned MOTHER I knew we had something very special because when something like this happened, MOTHER was where everyone would gather. It was where the memorial would be etc. The torch has now (happily for Chi Chi and I) been passed on to Mr. Joe and The RAPTURE CAFE. Same family (watched...
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WOW! what a life lived to the MAX...flaming out like his wild life...another dionysian explosion in our midst.... Dean was brilliant at creating pandaemonium...like his scandalous "mexican prison" backroom scenario at the black party a couple of years ago...as we did cavity searches on the "incoming incarcerated" causing some qeen to swallow all her drugs 'cuz Dean's required "uniform" gave too much realness - so much so that the po-po in Roseland forced the party to shut down our scene...or...
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For me and hundreds of others, this death has left a huge hole in my heart. At times Dean's shadow, suivante, confidante, alter-ego, giggle partner, partner in crime, and groupie, 21 years later, I've lost a major role model, a friend who was more like the older brother I never had. A true meanie at times, Dean nonetheless always tried to point me in the direction of personal freedom and happiness. For whatever reason, he took me under his wing in the mid 80's/early 90's era that he...
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dean...dean...dean...thanks for choosing me to be the hostess at Rock&Roll fag Bar at the WOrld and later over on Hudson Street,then years later again at that sleaze hole "THE COMEBACK"over at the Jane West Hotel..."those were the days my friend we thought they'd never end...". I'm sooo glad that the last time we spoke I was in drag at of all places THE PINES (not espeicially "drag friendly") what a unexpected joy to see you! you're laughter stills ring in my head when I think of...
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I am still trying to take this all in. When I heard that Dean had died I was in shock. I had literally just heard from him on My Space and he had written this wonderful blog a few months back paying tribute to me that he wanted me to see. It made me cry. I was touched and moved that I had made a mark on him. We were bonding and being sad together about CBGB's closing- that is where Dean and I met. He then went on to invite me to play his Fag Fest/HomoCorps there. We of course ran into each...
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wow,mammories,I mean memories...I forgot that we tried r.r.f.b. at Don Hill's also...and that shoot included Guy and Shannon and that CCRRAAZZY faghag of David "Carol Channing Rocks" Illku,or was it his bisexual lover?!? the club was REDZONE(another hellhole!) and that freaky photo w/ clark ,david,chrysis and hapi and me in "scary clown" mode? I also came across an incredible poster that Leslie Alexander did of us as cartoon Supervixons!!!
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Such sad sad news. Dean to me epitomized that true "downtown icon" - what a generation of artists(including myself) was inspired by to move to NYC. Visually beautiful in his brazen baldness and shades, aurally assaulting, verbally sharp as a razor. He embodied that true "punk" aesthetic of not only saying "Fuck You" en flagrante, but living it moment to moment. He will be sorely missed. Thank you Dean for Red Rocks, thank you Dean for your Wild Heart!
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If you read his last diary entry,you'll notice he is currently watching"CRUISING the delux dvd edition".hmmmmm...a film depicting gay drug addict prostitutes being violently murded for fun...hmmmmm....coincidence????
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To Friends of Dean, I didn't know Dean Johnson. Until this summer, I had no idea who he was. But one week end in early August, my boyfriend and I went to the Belvedere, a clothes-optional guest house on Fire Island that looks like something Cecil Beaton might have designed for Liberace during a bad acid trip. On our first (only) afternoon there, one guy who was just monstrous (and monstrously hung) was lounging in the pool, making sympathetic noises about the blackflies. No one was being...
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Boring, are you kidding me? I loved your post and laughed out loud! You really captured the Dean that we all knew and loved. And Tabboo!, the "Cruising" thing is too weird. Goosebumps here too.