Please note: Camp EDC is sold out for 2022! You might have luck on the Gay Rave & Circu Almanac group, or the unofficial Camp EDC group. The most mon qutn I hear om iends about my EDC Las Vegas experience is "should I mp?" Here's my tl;dr versn: Is imperative to you that you have spotlsly clea
Contents:
- THE GAY FIRST TIMER’S GUI TO EDC
- GAYS AT EDC LAS VEGAS 2022 - MEETUP/THEM/GROUP PHOTO
- THE UNSUNG HISTORY OF CIRCU PARTI, WHERE GAY MEN SEEK SEX AND FREEDOM
THE GAY FIRST TIMER’S GUI TO EDC
* is edc a gay event *
Although a rave is not a gay-exclive space, gays are fely wele there, pecially at EDC, whose official motto is “Everyone is wele here!
” Hoe mic and rave culture trace a direct leage back to the gay club scene, so there’s a strong “be yourself and no one will judge you” attu.
GAYS AT EDC LAS VEGAS 2022 - MEETUP/THEM/GROUP PHOTO
There were tears everywhere the dience—gay and straight alike.
Learn more about how EDM trac s history back to gay culture this brief vio:Jt as we don’t like straight girls crashg circu parti/gay bars and disrpectg our culture, I try to treat EDC wh rpect. I’m gay AF wh my giant rabow flag totem, but I don’t do some of the thgs I might do at a circu party, like give head on the dance floor ??♂️. People do meet and make nnectns, and there’s plenty of hot partially clothed folks and flirty totems, but ’s not a sexually-charged atmosphere the way gay-exclive events are.
*Jt to allay any nfn, the send big stage at EDC lled “Circu Grounds” has nothg to do wh the gay circu you’re there wh a guy you like (or you meet a guy you like) ’s also a crazy romantic experience. ) neon gay ntengient at EDC has grown every year. Rich Campbell, CEO of gay cise pany Atlantis (who knows a thg or two about throwg big parti himself) lls “the biggt gay party on the wt ast.
THE UNSUNG HISTORY OF CIRCU PARTI, WHERE GAY MEN SEEK SEX AND FREEDOM
Insomniac is sometim a really terrible producer as far as logistics and nng thgs smoothly, the one thg they do right is promote PLUR culture, gog out of their way to clu gays their marketg, and munitg the ethos through the materials that e wh your ticket etc…. As more and more gays e to EDC every year, I’ve noticed a subtle shift the vibe when I’m around the giant gay meta-group where the rabow totems ngregate — and got me thkg about what exactly ravers mean by a crowd beg “good vib. I’ve brought many gay first-timers to the ftival, and wh the first few hours of arrivg at mp, and after the first nversatn the water le, or outf pliment om a stranger, they immediately sense that somethg about the attu at EDC is different and special.
A key difference is that many social gtur that would nstute flirtg at a gay event don’t mean the same thg at EDC. Obvs don’t fake if you’re not a good mood, but unlike other gay spac, a se don’t always mean “I’m tryg to get your pants. Aga, gay ntexts this would be seen as flirtg, but at EDC chattg up strangers is totally through the crowd as polely as possible.
It’s also fun to jt be a spectator, so whatever you do, enjoy the of my most memorable EDC experienc is someone g up to me (wh my giant rabow flag totem) 2015 to tell me they ed to hate gays, but they grew up and learned better.