Bottle Service to Biodiversity: How a Former Nightclub Manager Traded the Nightlife to Build a 1.6M Follower Force for Good

Bottle Service to Biodiversity: How a Former Nightclub Manager Traded the Nightlife to Build a 1.6M Follower Force for Good

There is a strange, quiet violence to losing yourself. It’s not like the dramatic imaginings of the cinema. It happens when you aren’t looking. It creeps in under dim lights, loud music, and $1,000 suits, and before you know it, it becomes who you are. Matthew Gauger was the man behind the velvet rope: a nightclub manager, a familiar name in nightlife, a figure of access and excess. But then, as with so many, the pandemic arrived and kicked over…