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NYC’s Newest Music Festival Was a Gay Dream
All Things Go brought young queer fans in front of many of their idols (just not Chappell Roan).
They had come from San Francisco, from Salt Lake City, from Tampa and Bed-Stuy to attend All Things Go, a D.C.-based music festival that launched in New York for the first time in September with a brilliant strategy to stand apart from other fests: Make it for the gay girls. Over by the food vendors and restrooms, 26-year-old med student Emily Norris drew attention for her recreation of Roan’s Divine-inspired “Tiny Desk” look, uncannily accurate right down to the intentional lipstick smudge on her teeth. The second day started with Nashville-based alt-pop act Annie DiRusso, who wore a bright-yellow rain poncho “in solidarity.” Philly punk band Mannequin Pussy (“We’re Chappell Roan!”) got the crowd on the floor head-banging, which meant wet hair flinging water everywhere.
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