The Unsung History of Circu Parti, Where Gay Men Seek Sex and Freedom

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GCIRCUIT is Asia's most proment gay party anizer and we have been anizg Song Kran, which is Asia's largt gay circu event sce 2007. When we started, our first party attracted around 1,500 atten each night. Our event has grown signifintly size and signifince sce we first started and our last event attracted close to 8,000 atten for each of our night parti and close to 2,000 partygoers for our pool parti. As our motto clearly stat, GCIRCUIT is more than jt a party. We are not only known for our productn, shows, performers, DJ lp and top-notch venu, we are also very proud that our parti are clive regardls of genr, race, age and looks. SONG KRAN creat memori and memori are forever. We will ntue to work hard to brg joy to our partygoers and to help foster new iendships. Let's ntue to dance to the future!

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Gay Events & Parti. The bt gui to gay dance parti, gay pris and other LGBT events USA, Europe and Asia. Updated regularly. * largest gay circuit party *

Our gay events gui ntas a full round-up of the biggt and. The circu—a loose global work of often weekend-long danceathons, where partygoers (almost all gay men) nvene om around the world to bond spirually, socially, sexually and milly—is one of the most unique phenomena to emerge om queer muni over the past few s.

Undoubtedly, many younger gay men prefer smaller venu that "bask the bety and openns of queer culture.

THE UNSUNG HISTORY OF CIRCU PARTI, WHERE GAY MEN SEEK SEX AND FREEDOM

" Plenty of olr gay men, too, fd the whole ethos of circu parti — glow sticks, remixed diva anthems, lor them, "body fascism"—to be tired figure out the state of the circu 2017, THUMP spoke wh Mickey Weems, a lecturer at the Universy of Hawai'i Manoa who has extensively studied circu parti (alongsi relig, anthropologil and folklore terts).

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Weems spoke to their past, prent and potential future, explag what role the circu has played shapg queer and gay culture, and what s evolutn says about the same today. A gay circu party (Photo via)THUMP: Can you give me a psule history of the circu?

When the Gay Activist Alliance was formed—the first gay rights group, born only six months after Stonewall—they had danc an old firehoe SoHo.

And New York, thoands of men began gatherg at Downtown loft spac that began croppg started pourg , wh plac like Flamgo and Twelve Wt, two of the most proment gay male dance spac, full of sweaty men dancg all the same time, Fire Island beme the place for people who uld afford . The term "circu" me om beg the "need to know circu"—not only diss, but "--the-know" plac the gay muny that even clud, 1980, the Sat opened the East Village.

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A Night Out at Asia's Biggt Gay Circu Party: gCircu durg Songkran .

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