DJ Harry — Telluri Gay Ski Week

Contents:

• DJ HARRY GAY ON QUEER HOE PARTY: ‘OUR CROWD IS LOVG, HEDONISTIC, AND AT TIM UNHGED’
• QUEER HOE PARTY: MIXED BY HARRY GAY, WACHA & PASSER
• HARRY GAY
• THE MIL LEGACY OF GAY BATHHO

DJ HARRY GAY ON QUEER HOE PARTY: ‘OUR CROWD IS LOVG, HEDONISTIC, AND AT TIM UNHGED’

Harry Gay has recently been named by Hunger Magaze as a breakthrough creative of 2023 and is pretty by this year, wh no sign of thgs slowg down.

Harry remembers listeng to Ibiza Anthems and Mistry of Sound the r as a kid (Picture: Harry Gay). Harry Gay: Genre-bendg queer-thumpg chaos, takg you through a blend of hard hoe, mpy techno, nostalgic pop, bass-fuelled acid, and heavy breaks. Soakg the mic om the gay bars and queer clubs, Sk the Pk, Handsome, The Joers Arms, East Bloc, and Dalston Superstore, are a few nights and venu that were on rotatn those early days.

QUEER HOE PARTY: MIXED BY HARRY GAY, WACHA & PASSER

I never thought I would hear Bjork’s Hyperballad the club until Saoirse played at Homobloc, and was life-changg. This sweat-ducg b2b2b set om foundg members and rint DJs Harry Gay, Wacha and passer ptur the llective’s exuberant energy and is filled wh wall-to-wall dancefloor bangers om the lik of Gafacci, Doja Cat, Kim Petras and Ahadadream. Harry Gay:.

Queer Hoe Party: Mixed by Harry Gay, Wacha & passer. Activist, DJ and muny aniser Harry Gay is one of untls queer creativ remag rilient durg the ronavis panmic paralysg the world. ((From L-R) Performer Liv Wter, DJs Nik and Harry Gay.

HARRY GAY

Last Friday night, when London’s clubs were closed and the streets motnls, a DJ lled Harry Gay set up a turntable and opened up Zoom on his laptop. Addrsg his webm, Gay live-streamed a night of queer bops, hoe bangers and techno clangers to more than 1, 000 people around the world. Like any good host, Gay wore a see-through t-shirt and a cha harns to get to the spir as his five hoebound flatmat donned lamé and leather and danced around him.

The ronavis panmic may have upend the London’s nightlife, but Gay is one of untls queer DJs, micians and club owners showg rilience and genuy a time of crisis. After losg bookgs one by one, Gay, who works at LGBT+ homelsns anisatn The Outsi Project, told PkNews that he sat down wh his flatmat one day to share ias on how to make sh for rent.

THE MIL LEGACY OF GAY BATHHO

Queer Hoe Party was -found by DJ and activist Harry Gay. Broadst over Zoom, a vio-chat app signed for stale rporate meetgs, virtual club-goers are sent a lk to the weekly 9pm set that tak place Gay’s hohare. “What started as a simple ia to create some extra sh durg this crisis has turned to somethg so overwhelmgly betiful, ” Gay said.

“The reason we all head out to queer nights is bee of the muny and sense of belongg that wh , ” Gay explaed. We do not tolerate ableism, ageism, body shamg, biphobia, fatphobia, homophobia, misogyny, racism, transphobia or xenophobia.

Gay strsed that he and his flatmat, some of whom n a queer anti-fascist DJ llective and rad show lled GLAMTIFA wh him, are all dog what they n to support one another and the wir muny this crisis.

“If you’re earng a salary still, ” Gay said, “I thk ’s important that you keep channellg your e to onle queer entertament as you would have been if the bars were still open! In transformg a flat stuffed wh succulents and traers to a digal DJ ssn, Gay explaed that, above all, hostg Queer Hoe Party has ma him appreciate how accsible onle parti n be for everyone. (From L-R) Performer Liv Wter, DJs Nik and Harry Gay, -founrs of GLAMTIFA.

Gay said: “Disabled people and people wh accs needs n pop and jo the party whout havg to worry about accsibily, nro-divergent people n avoid sensory overload, survivors n have a boogie and feel safe.

Christmas Day is gettg a ‘big gay party’. To help alleviate some of the feelgs, Queer Hoe Party is throwg “a big gay party” on Christmas Day.

The anisers, Harry Gay, Wacha and Passer, started their Zoom diss at the begng of the first English lockdown. “The reason we all head out to queer nights is bee of the muny and sense of belongg that wh , ” Gay told PkNews earlier this year. Duo were drsed black T-shirts as they surveyed the 30-somethg crowd of mostly gay men, raisg their fists and grdg on the packed dance floor for Ladyfag’s popular Battle Hymn party.

“There’s right now a major return to gay dance, ” Mr. Grg Moror - Knights In Whe Sat - Photography: Ron Slenzak Sex ually wh s own soundtrack, natural or synthized, but the mic of gay bathho, snas and sex clubs the 1970s has had an unmon pull on ntemporary dance mic.