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GAY VILLAGE
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”The ia of shared muny succs is somethg that is heavily celebrated Flhback, a documentary featured on Boiler Room’s new 4:3 platform, partnership wh the Brish Council, which explor the magil history of gay ravg Manchter. Flhback explor a movement that happened tanm wh “Madchter”, featurg stori om anisers of some of the cy’s biggt LGBT+ nights: Homoelectric, Body Horror, High Hoops and Meat Free; nights that ntue to marry together great mic and clivy to this day.
“As a queer person of lour, I unrstood where a lot of the ntributors for the documentary were g om when they said they felt ‘othered’ by mastream gay culture. “What surprised you the most was how many people had fought for the gay muny, ” she ments while lookg over a pile of old polaroids. ”Sectn 28, which me to law May 1988, prohibed the promotn of homosexualy.
One of the biggt protts took place Manchter, durg which 20, 000 people: gays, lbians, trans men and women, and alli took to the streets.
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Queer people realised they had a much larger public behd them than they expected – gays and lbians sudnly wanted to party together and they need spac to acmodate – and this is where the gay rave scene was born. “It forced gays and lbians to une prott, ” ments Isaac-Wilson. ”Nights at Body Horror are characterised by bondage and sex posivy (Boiler Room/Flhback)This alternative scene explod, wh flamboyant nights such as Flh at The Haçienda beg so popular that tickets had “thank you for not beg heterosexual” wrten on them, orr to keep out non-gay revellers wantg a piece of the actn.
One activist even tells a story of police raidg the night due to an ice cream van beg the middle of the dance floor, wh officers tellg clubbers to move the van to the fire ex, believg the proximy of dance floor smokers and the petrol enge uld be over-the-top temperament of Flh, however, led to the cy’s newfound gay scene movg swiftly away om s unrground origs and to the mastream. This was propelled by shows like Queer as Folk, which foced not on mic or diversy but stead the experienc of young, wealthy whe mal and transformed Manchter’s gay village, Canal Street, to somethg of a tourist attractn. In rponse to this, Homoelectric was born, a night for “homos, heteros, lbos and don’t knows”.
Homoelectric attempted to repture the more unrground sence of nightlife that had been lost the mercialised cy centre by puttg on rav a warehoe. Homoelectric was there not jt so people uld fuck each other, they me to feel fortable, and they me to feel at home.