Deep Reads: A gay uple ran a rtrant peace. Then new neighbors arrived. - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• THE WAREHOE: THE GAY CLUB WHERE HOE MIC GOT S NAME
• SPECIAL FEATURE: THE GAY DNA OF HOUSE MUSIC
• GAY MIC: HOE PARTY MIC (BT HOE GAY SONGS)

THE WAREHOE: THE GAY CLUB WHERE HOE MIC GOT S NAME

But e nighttime, the former factory me to life as a place where young predomantly black and predomantly gay men me to dance an otherwise heavily segregated club scene. Dis was still popular among gay and black clubs, but anti-dis movements, rooted heavily racism and homophobia, arose all across Chigo.

SPECIAL FEATURE: THE GAY DNA OF HOUSE MUSIC

Although origally populated by a black, gay majory, Williams was eager to create an open, diversified space. “The Warehoe was predomantly gay, ” Williams relled.

Hoe mic is gay mic.

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.

GAY MIC: HOE PARTY MIC (BT HOE GAY SONGS)

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 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.