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Contents:
- DANCE PRI: THE GAY ORIGS OF DANCE MIC
- IT TAK A VILLAGE, PEOPLE: PRERVG SAN FRANCIS'S GAY DIS HISTORY
- THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
- CENTRAL STATN MSKPOPULAR GAY NIGHTCLUB.MOSWMENUBARSDANCE CLUBSSNASCISE CLUBSSERVICCY GUIGAY MAPRSIA INXCENTRAL STATN MSK
- VODA SPA & SNATHE MOST POPULAR GAY SNA MOSW.MOSWMENUBARSDANCE CLUBSSNASCISE CLUBSSERVICCY GUIGAY MAPRSIA INXVODA SPA & SNA
DANCE PRI: THE GAY ORIGS OF DANCE MIC
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IT TAK A VILLAGE, PEOPLE: PRERVG SAN FRANCIS'S GAY DIS HISTORY
The flamboyant electronic sound of San Francis’s dancefloors soundtracked gay liberatn the '70s and '80s, even as s muny faced cimatn as a rult of the the AIDS crisis. Marke Bichke tak a ep dive to the efforts beg ma to prerve ephemera of the cy's pneerg scene, and speaks to the San Francis Dis Prervatn Society, Dark Entri' Josh Cheon and milogist Louis Neibur about his prehensive new book, Menergy: San Francis’s Gay Dis Sound * gay dance djs *
On the ia of “fun party mic, ” DJ Erol believ “a lot of people nscly or subnscly choose to ignore [a rap song’s ocsnal homophobia] bee they [simply] like the beat or hook of a song. DJ Montell was ank her explanatn: “We’re the bs to make money and a lot of tim if you only play gay artists, you might not make a lot of money.
On The State of Gay Anthems.
A gay anthem is nsired to be a song wh an upliftg msage, powerful vols and a grandse chos — and mak you want to dance.
THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
Pri serv more than a month. The gay songs – om dis hs to club classics – are perfect for Pri year-round. * gay dance djs *
DJ Arnold — who is also the creator of the remix team Dirty Dis — says gay anthems should “spire” and “take you on a journey that stirs emotns.
Durg her terview, DJ Montell beme upset when discsg a lack of regard for gay anthem classics such as Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” and Sylvter’s “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real).
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” Montell believ there is also a cle the gay anthems of today — somethg she didn’t expect would happen when she started DJg 35 years ago. She panicked that “there’s no Madonna, no Ale, no Rihanna” gay anthems to play this summer; although later on she acknowledged Rihanna’s “Love On The Bra” as a uner.
Otherwise, ALi — who grew up on the trifecta of Madonna, Mariah Carey, and Whney Hoton — se Katy Perry and Ariana Gran as the “new curators” for today’s gay anthems. Harris had the most shockg answer of them all — he’s tired of playg his own 2001 gay anthem “Dive In A Pool” which was featured an episo of the Showtime seri Queer As Folk. Spac like Paradise Garage, The Warehoe, Mic Box and Heaven were stmental the scene's rise, while the gay BIPOC rint DJs, Larry Levan, Frankie Knuckl, Ron Hardy and Ken Collier, rpectively, tly fed the genre's sound.
Thankfully there has been a great al of progrs over the past battg this erasure: LGBTQ+ reprentatn media has been steadily on the rise across almost all forms, and studi show that Gen Z is poised to be the gayt generatn yet wh almost one three intifyg as queer.
VODA SPA & SNATHE MOST POPULAR GAY SNA MOSW.MOSWMENUBARSDANCE CLUBSSNASCISE CLUBSSERVICCY GUIGAY MAPRSIA INXVODA SPA & SNA
Photography: Jason SiegelWhen I was growg up as a fan of electronic dance mic, I stggled to fd any role mols or reprentatn of gay people the scene. It's ol to be gay.
I stggled my whole life wh the fact that I was gay and I didn't fully e out until my early 20s, around the time I moved to Chigo. Frankie Knuckl wasn't fed by beg gay, but he blossomed a culture that allowed him to jt be himself.