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Norman Brannon, musician and writer, was busy figuring himself out when he first stumbled upon Big Cup, a gay coffee shop that stood in Chelsea, Manhattan between — …. I ask a bunch of awkward questions about life as a hare krishna rock star who knew that was a thing? We also talk about the thrill of being in your first queer venue, the changing face of New York and the importance of non-alcoholised spaces.

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Find out more about Norman by following him on twitter. Norman Brannon When I lived there originally, it norman felt a little edgy, you know, it had that sort of, you know, everything felt like it was something out of desperately seeking Susan is like, you know, all the restaurants seem gay and all the you know, like everything seemed gay on Eighth Avenue.

K Anderson I am K Anderson, and you are listening to lost spaces, a podcast that mourns the death of queer nightlife. Every episode I talk to a different person about a venue from their past, the memories they created there and the people that they used to know. Norman Brannon is a musician and writer based in Brooklyn, New York.

Best known for his work in the band, Texas is the reason we caught up to discuss become a gay coffee shop located in Chelsea, New York City bar and Norman Brannon big cup kind of takes place in a period of my life that really sort of marks a lot of my sort of queer experience in different ways by where it bookended just by, you know, the fact of when gay opened and when it closed.

I was a Harry Krishna at the time. And I became a monk for about two years. And I took vows of norman, which sounds a little weird, but part of the vows included a vow of celibacy. So it sort of created a weird period of time in my life, because I think Gay knew I was gay. But I was also sort of practicing celibacy.

It was just sort of what I was into. So when I left monkhood, and. K Anderson just before, just before you left, your involvement, then does that mean you have to live in a monastery? Norman Brannon Or in the temple? But I was in a predicament where I left home when I was 16 years old.

I sort of bounced around a little bit before I just decided that I was going to be a monk. And, you know, for me, becoming a monk was about finding some discipline, finding some stability, finding some family, right, I left home, largely because my family life was poor. I came from an abusive home, my mother basically violently assaulted me my entire life up until I was old enough to fight back.

And then she stopped. That was when I was going to leave so. So you know, the Harry Krishna has provided me with a lot of those things. I was already you know, coming out of the punk scene, I had gotten into hardcore punk in New York, and very early on, like bar I was I went to my first show.