Circu Ftival Barcelona 2022· Biggt ternatnal gay event · Augt 6 - 14

Contents:

• ¿POR QUé EL CIRCU UNA LAS BANDAS SONORAS LA UNIDAD GAY?
• CIRCUIT GAYLA MEJOR MúSI ELECTRóNI03:39 • ONLY MIC LABELCIRCUIT GAY
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
• PLAYLIST L ORGULLO GAY: 25 NCN LGBT PARA SER SIEMPRE Tú MISMA
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• CIRCUIT GAYLA MEJOR MúSI ELECTRóNI03:39 • ONLY MIC LABELCIRCUIT GAY
• CIRCU BARCELONA: EL FTIVAL GAY L VERANO QUE NO TE PUES PERR

¿POR QUé EL CIRCU UNA LAS BANDAS SONORAS LA UNIDAD GAY?

La más ún y cliché, s la unidad heterosexual, vcular te género electróni n fitas gay en don todos los asistent son hombr mculosos que andan s misa, en don se aba l nsumo drogas y que algo que a todos los gays l gta.

S embargo si preguntara a vars hombr gay si cuchan o asisten a fitas Circu, no todos lo aceptarían, dirían que no son “circueros”. El Circu una mezcla hoe progrivo y tribal que nació en los 70 en los Estados Unidos, y que se empezó a tor en fitas masivas spiciadas por diferent DJ renocidos la épo en exclivos centros nocturnos 100% gay o The Sat en Nueva York o Reynold’s Club en Oh.

Este nacimiento expli la raíz la percepción la gente l circu o músi gay. Amás uno los DJ más renocidos a nivel mundial en te género, el israela Offer Nissim –abiertamente homosexual–, fue quien llevó te sonido al mastream, tanto, que s mezclas han llegado a tener laboracn n Mariah Carey y Beyonce, fluyent artistas ntro l universo LGBT.

CIRCUIT GAYLA MEJOR MúSI ELECTRóNI03:39 • ONLY MIC LABELCIRCUIT GAY

El DJ lír l evento, Eliad Cohen Israel, una las figuras públis gay más famosas l mundo gracias a su prencia en res social. Adicnalmente su físi y risma han sido gran ayuda, enamorando a la diencia gay.

Recientemente se ha abierto al rto l mundo, clo en lugar tan imagabl para una fita gay o Bangkok, Tailandia. Este tipo subculturas puen ayudar a reprentar qué tan diversa la unidad LGBT y da un panorama más ampl sobre cómo se vive la cultura gay milmente. The circu—a loose global work of often weekend-long danceathons, where partygoers (almost all gay men) nvene om around the world to bond spirually, socially, sexually and milly—is one of the most unique phenomena to emerge om queer muni over the past few s.Circu parti n be d, like at At's Splash Days, held at lol waterg hole Hippie Hollow, or at ski weeks held at rorts the Wt and Swzerland, where actn on the slop rivals that of the dance floor.Or, they n be wild, like at New York's Black Party, wh "strange live acts" that have clud erotic e of a boa nstrictor; or at San Francis's Magnu, held the night before the Folsom Street Fair fetish ftival.But they always give atten a space to shed social expectatns, where they n be nobody but themselv.Sce their birth the 70s, the circu has grown to an ternatnal phenomenon, wh parti blossomg throughout Europe, Lat Ameri, and, more recently, the Asian Pacific Rim.

Undoubtedly, many younger gay men prefer smaller venu that "bask the bety and openns of queer culture." Plenty of olr gay men, too, fd the whole ethos of circu parti — glow sticks, remixed diva anthems, lor them, "body fascism"—to be tired anachronisms.To figure out the state of the circu 2017, THUMP spoke wh Mickey Weems, a lecturer at the Universy of Hawai'i Manoa who has extensively studied circu parti (alongsi relig, anthropologil and folklore terts).

GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

Weems spoke to their past, prent and potential future, explag what role the circu has played shapg queer and gay culture, and what s evolutn says about the same today.A gay circu party (Photo via noiZe.buzz)THUMP: Can you give me a psule history of the circu?Mickey Weems: It all started after the Stonewall Rts 1969. When the Gay Activist Alliance was formed—the first gay rights group, born only six months after Stonewall—they had danc an old firehoe SoHo. And New York, thoands of men began gatherg at Downtown loft spac that began croppg up.Money started pourg , wh plac like Flamgo and Twelve Wt, two of the most proment gay male dance spac, full of sweaty men dancg all night.At the same time, Fire Island beme the place for people who uld afford .

The term "circu" me om beg the "need to know circu"—not only diss, but "--the-know" plac the gay muny that even clud barbershops.Then, 1980, the Sat opened the East Village. One thg the 2002 documentary When Boys Fly [which followed a group of young gay men attendg the Miami Whe Party] got right was showg someone fallg out [passg out om dg e].It was sndalo. Then you started seeg the rise of the ter, which pecially affected the gay datg scene.

A handful of proment gay punds saw the parti as a waste of our energy and rourc. People like Michelangelo Signorile, who wrote about his experience at the Palm Sprgs Whe Party Life Outsi , a book about gay culture at the time, were posg that the parti were elist.Among crics like Signorile, Larry Kramer and Gabriel Rotello, parti were seen as havens for irrponsible behavr, sex and dgs. Most of the kds of studi look at the areas of gay culture—like the bathhoe scene, club scene, the app scene—bee they're supposed hot spots for HIV fectn and rampant dg e.But the qutn is: do the people dog the studi unrstand our muny at all?

FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

Bee what they're "studyg" is jt what go on regular gay life.Except that "regular gay life" has e to mean somethg very different 2017. There's no qutn that for gay men, thgs have gotten better.

This generatnal divi between gay Boomers and lennials has to fluence how they perceive circu parti—or even if there's still a need for them.If, as you said, the circu reached a nadir earlier this century, has that cle been nstant, or have they ma a eback? And if so, what's the motivatn for younger gay men to attend a circu party?

PLAYLIST L ORGULLO GAY: 25 NCN LGBT PARA SER SIEMPRE Tú MISMA

H ave the parti themselv evolved to meet the challenge of a changed landspe for gay/queer culture a post-liberatn world?Circu parti still have a functn. And young people are tablishg "circu loni." We create a gay space on the dance floor of mastream parti.

EDC enurag .One ongog cricism is that the parti reprent only one small segment of gay men.

Although there's a looseng up about attus toward gay people, the societi are still very tradnal. ”Wynk Mic brgs to you CIRCUIT GAY MP3 song om the movie/album La Mejor Músi Electróni. WASHINGTON – A feral appeals urt has led that a Catholic high school Indianapolis was ee to fire a gay guidance unselor bee she performed at least some relig duti, the latt legal setback for LGBTQ+ rights when they nflict wh Fzgerald had worked for 14 years as a guidance unselor at Ronlli High School when school officials disvered she was married to another woman.

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

Supreme Court cisn favor of a web signer who did not want to work for gay upl bolsters s fight the U.

Court of Appeals for the 4th Circu Richmond is an early tt of how that major Supreme Court cisn ptg ee speech agast anti-discrimatn laws will play out beyond the hypothetil suatn that se, which volved a platiff who had never actually ma weddg webs or been asked to do so by a gay person. “The Court rejected the dissent’s assertn that s cisn opened the door to discrimatn employment, ” ACLU attorney Josh Block wrote a reply to Becket’s the exampl raised the Supreme Court did not clu a relig anizatn or a gay employee, and Gorsuch repeatedly voked a 2000 cisn allowg the Boy Suts to expel a gay volunteer on “exprsive associatn” grounds. “We all said that thoands of relig anizatns all across the untry ask their employe to uphold their tradnal view of marriage word and ed, and if you terpret the statute that way, ’s gog to unleash lots of lawsus agast them, ” Goodrich the Supreme Court has specifilly said preventg racial discrimatn is a pellg ernment tert that jtifi rtrictg First Amendment eedoms, he noted that the Supreme Court has rejected such a fdg on discrimatn agast gay or transgenr people.

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Esta nción Gloria Trevi tá spirada en la historia un amigo homosexual que salió l armar en el ambiente una faia nservadora. Gloria Gaynor cuenta en I will Survive la historia una ptura dolorosa que le fue difícil superar, pero la cuál salió emporada y más fuerte.

YMCA hace referencia al distro neoyorko Greenwich Village, zona clave para el movimiento liberación homosexual. El h los años 80 Bronski Beat habla un joven homosexual que be irse su pueblo nacimiento por miedo a no ser aceptado por la unidad.

CIRCU BARCELONA: EL FTIVAL GAY L VERANO QUE NO TE PUES PERR

Este tema Lil Nas X aparece en la película Call me by your name, que supo un avance importante en la reprentatividad parejas homosexual en grans produccn cematográfis.

Se acer el día l Orgullo Gay.