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Contents:

• SPECIAL FEATURE: THE GAY DNA OF HOUSE MUSIC
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• DANCE PRI: THE GAY ORIGS OF DANCE MIC
• GAY FMGAY FM
• THE RISE OF ELECTRONIC GAY DANCE MIC
• GAY MIC: HOE PARTY MIC (BT HOE GAY SONGS)
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE INFLUENCE OF GAY DANCE
• BT OF GAY DANCE, VOL. 1

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. 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.

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. It's ol to be gay. I stggled my whole life wh the fact that I was gay and I didn't fully e out until my early 20s, around the time I moved to Chigo.

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

Frankie Knuckl wasn't fed by beg gay, but he blossomed a culture that allowed him to jt be himself. As far as gay nightlife go, Paradise Garage had a big fluence on .

DANCE PRI: THE GAY ORIGS OF DANCE MIC

This diversy has been party of the earlit dance scene days but today, 's even more so, where you have straight, gay, young, old... 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.

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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. 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 RISE OF ELECTRONIC GAY DANCE MIC

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. “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. HIV/AIDS was cuttg a swathe through our muny, stillg tabloid panic, a rise homophobia and wispread fear.

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

Sectn 28 of the Lol Government Act 1988 prohibed lol thori England and Wal om “promotg” homosexualy. It also labelled gay fay relatnships as “pretend”.

The gays had been tegral to gettg the hoe party started, but by late ‘88, the muny’s foc had swched om MDMA to AZT and HIV. The club kids and olr gay men who’d led diss the ‘70s sudnly beme th on the ground.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE INFLUENCE OF GAY DANCE

The energy that sparked the flam of hoe mic subversive gay clubs explod elsewhere as the Send Summer Of Love (1988-’89). “More young gay people were lookg for somethg new and more vibrant, and had already equented fashn-orientated clubs that embraced the mixed msage, ” he rells.

When I saw queens at the big, straight rav, I’d steer clear and spurn regnn — the dancg gay Judas wh dilated pupils. Manchter boasted a boomg gay scene that was cky, hip and ready to ‘ave ‘til dawn. DJ Dave Kendricks explas the cy’s LGBT herage: “Manchter’s mil history is full of gay signifiers, om Pete Shelley sgg ‘Ever fallen love wh someone you shouldn’t have?

“That monthly gay night at The Haçienda was the greatt night I ever played. Jt a few years before, Manchter’s chief of police Jam Anrton said the gay muny was ‘swimmg a csp of s own makg’ after he raid the gay club, Rocki.

BT OF GAY DANCE, VOL. 1

“Queer Natn was jt the mutated gay versn.

“Garage tegrated gay and straight crowds and beme more about the mic and ls about the sex at the end of the night! Entry wasn’t guaranteed, even if you were gay.

The door policy was vague, but sturdy: “You don't have to be gay or a member to get , but your attu and look will unt. In orr to get round the Sunday licensg laws, an enormo buffet would greet the still-buzzg gay ravers as they trooped om Turnls.