SPECIAL FEATURE: THE GAY DNA OF HOUSE MUSIC |

Contents:

• SPECIAL FEATURE: THE GAY DNA OF HOUSE MUSIC
• THE BETIFUL BLACK GAY HISTORY OF CHIGO HOE’S BIRTH
• WHEN HOUSE MUSIC WAS BLACK & GAY

SPECIAL FEATURE: THE GAY DNA OF HOUSE MUSIC

It ially operated as a members-only club almost exclively equented by black and Lato gay men. At the time, gay bars and clubs were the only safe spac for queer folk, pecially nsirg the nstant barrage of police raids, often whout warrants, that terrorized Chigo’s gay muny.

Hoe mic is gay mic. Then, a strange move, which the future will be seen as a se study for reer sabotage, he wrote a homophobic rant on his Facebook page.

The post pared homosexuals to paedophil and referred to the LGBT muny as “another breed”. There might be gay characters Hollyoaks, but ’s not all rabows out there. Electronic mic emerged om a scene that was alternative, diverse and mostly, very, very gay.

THE BETIFUL BLACK GAY HISTORY OF CHIGO HOE’S BIRTH

The unsung fluence of gay culture may not stem om nsc discrimatn, but when a major ntributn isn’t celebrated, that oversight n allow homophobia to flourish. In 1973 Vce Aletti wrote a piece for Rollg Stone documentg the vert scene of, “After-hours clubs and private lofts open on weekends to members only — a hard-re dance crowd — blacks, Lats, gays. When asked about dance mic culture, he sniffed: “The rave liftyle of Ibiza the late ‘80s was jt a vanilla versn of the New York gay liftyle of the ‘70s.

What many people don't know is that there was a heavg, largely gay y the pac basement every night! The largely gay, black and Hispanic crowd were totally off-their-ts — mostly on Quaalus (known as 'Lus).

The Lift nodd towards New York’s dis palac, but s roots were South London’s largely black, illegal, gay hoe parti (or ‘Blu’ as they were known). Jeremy Norman opened Heaven 1979 and by the early ‘80s, was at the top of s game, givg gay London an epic club that rivalled anythg New York (or the world) had to offer.

WHEN HOUSE MUSIC WAS BLACK & GAY

“The mistake I ma was reuntg how the mastream gay scene kd of rejected — llg the ‘black sheep’. He agre that the gays were ravg long before had a name.

“Pre acid hoe/rave culture, you’d hear hoe mic many gay clubs London. As the Send Summer Of Love dawned '88, the UK gay scene was major crisis and London was the epicentre of this battle.