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Stardust & Beyond: An Archive of a Durban Nightlife Community
A photographic archive of The Stardust disco, its related spaces, and the friends who lived through Durban and Johannesburg’s 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
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The archive documents Durban’s only gay club, opened down a dark alleyway in 1975, through hundreds of photographs: 35 from The Stardust, 22 from The Boudoir, and decade-spanning collections of 82, 198, and 175 images. It preserves a community’s nightlife, friendships, and self-invention.
A photographic archive of The Stardust disco, its related spaces, and the friends who lived through Durban and Johannesburg’s 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
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