#aj miller

Concluding this series of transcribed articles from The Advocate’s August ‘75 ’Discos!“ issue is an interview w/ Hollywood DJ, A.J. Miller.

While not much is known about whatever happened to Miller, the interview is an interesting look into just how influential gay DJs and discos were.

At the time Miller was working at a club called Our Side, which had formerly been the The Paradise Ballroom (owned by the notorious Eddie Nash), which would later become the long-running Probe. Miller was apparently also a close associate of the late writer/producer Bob Crewe and was instrumental in his disco productions at the time. 

I love Miller’s last line  - “[t]he most substantial thing that gay people have contributed in the last five years is the discotheque. We’ve got people turned on to music they never heard before. I think it’s the most beautiful kind of sharing thing that we can do. We have shared something that has sort of been our secret.”

Scans and full transcription on the main blog.