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Contents:
- DANCE PRI: THE GAY ORIGS OF DANCE MIC
- SPECIAL FEATURE: THE GAY DNA OF HOUSE MUSIC
- IT TAK A VILLAGE, PEOPLE: PRERVG SAN FRANCIS'S GAY DIS HISTORY
DANCE PRI: THE GAY ORIGS OF DANCE MIC
Sce s ceptn, Dancehall mic has held a very strict and nsistent disda for the gay muny. A disda so unyieldg, that proment artists * gay djs *
” and Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” the ’70s to Christa Aguilera’s “Betiful, ” Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” and Scissor Sisters’ “Let’s Have a Kiki” the 21st century, mic has helped LGBTQ people to both survive and thrive. LGBTQ Pri is a time for celebratg inty, visibily, and activism for human rights and for rellectg on s roots – om the first march orchtrated by activist Brenda Howard 1970, exactly a year after the Stonewall Uprisg, to early anizatns such as Gay Liberatn Front, STAR (found by Marsha P. Stt eventually held a rincy at Better Days, also buildg his system at the club due to a bar-level sound system and the owner’s lack of vtment newer equipment, and beme a centric part of the gay club’s muny.
And that godmother also reigned Detro’s gay club scene, shadowg Ken Collier to bee a proment part of the next generatn of Motor Cy DJs fg the techno and warehoe scen. In a Huffgton Post story 2017, GRiZ scribed intifyg as gay llege, the procs of g out to the public, and how has helped him love himself:.
SPECIAL FEATURE: THE GAY DNA OF HOUSE MUSIC
Hoe mic is gay mic. The sound emerged om the queer black and latx club cultur of New York and Chigo the ’80s. Strangely, the roots of the… * gay djs *
Her highly emotive sets have been self-scribed as basic, but show off each rerd’s story while implementg her LGBTQ advocy and rallyg agast homophobia as well as genr equaly wh the dtry, such as when she staged a “kiss-” wh same-sex upl at her 2013 Boiler Room set, an ia by her wife and fellow DJ, Lakuti. Spac like Paradise Garage, The Warehoe, Mic Box and Heaven were stmental the scene's rise, while the gay BIPOC rint DJs, Larry Levan, Frankie Knuckl, Ron Hardy and Ken Collier, rpectively, tly fed the genre's sound. Thankfully there has been a great al of progrs over the past battg this erasure: LGBTQ+ reprentatn media has been steadily on the rise across almost all forms, and studi show that Gen Z is poised to be the gayt generatn yet wh almost one three intifyg as queer.
IT TAK A VILLAGE, PEOPLE: PRERVG SAN FRANCIS'S GAY DIS HISTORY
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Photography: Jason SiegelWhen I was growg up as a fan of electronic dance mic, I stggled to fd any role mols or reprentatn of gay people the scene.