Charlie Brown: My Fabulous 50-Year Career In and Out of Drag, is currently being shopped to prospective publishers. The result of those weekly conversations, tentatively titled Mr. In 1978, Charlie had moved to Atlanta from Tennessee and first became a star at the Sweet Gum Head drag bar. ¶ The performer is perhaps best known for emceeing his namesake Charlie Brown’s Cabaret from 1990 to 2004 atop Backstreet, the city’s 24-hour gay disco. During Covid lockdown over the next eight months, the two, along with Brown’s husband, Fred Wise, met up each Monday morning on the phone to discuss Charlie’s illustrious career. The next morning, Charlie texted Eldredge, asking if he might be interested in co-authoring his memoir. During the height of the pandemic, Charlie donned drag for the first time in two years to reconnect with fans for a Backstreet Reunion Party hosted on Zoom by Atlanta magazine. Eldredge interviewed iconic Atlanta drag performer Charlie Brown for Atlanta magazine’s Pride at 50 issue.
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