Gay Events, Parti, Hangouts THE DEFINING GAY MOMENTS OF 2015 – spemen

Contents:

• GAY PRI EVENTS NYC 2015: FULL LIST OF WEEKEND PARTI, PARAS, CONCERTS AND MORE
• THE 10 MOST FAB GAY DANCE PARTI (WH ACTUAL GOOD MIC) NORTH AMERI
• GAY EVENTS, PARTI, HANGOUTS THE DEFINING GAY MOMENTS OF 2015
• THE UNSUNG HISTORY OF CIRCU PARTI, WHERE GAY MEN SEEK SEX AND FREEDOM
• THE 17 BT GAY AND LBIAN CLUBS AND PARTI IN SAN FRANCIS
• OP-ED: THE WHE PARTY AND GAY CULTURE NEED MORE COLOR
• GAY PRIS 2023 AND 2024
• THE BT MIAMI GAY PARTI AND LGBTQ+ EVENTS RIGHT NOW
• THE 8 TOP GAY CIS FOR 2023
• ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL MEN NYC'S GAY NIGHTLIFE SCENE FAC OVER A OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT ALLEGATNS

GAY PRI EVENTS NYC 2015: FULL LIST OF WEEKEND PARTI, PARAS, CONCERTS AND MORE

The annual event draws hundreds of thoands of people to the streets of New York Cy, many of them donng the lors of the rabow flag, the symbol of the gay rights movement around the world.

THE 10 MOST FAB GAY DANCE PARTI (WH ACTUAL GOOD MIC) NORTH AMERI

And wh the Supreme Court officially lg Friday favor of gay marriage, NYC Pri 2015 is bound to be bigger, better and more brazen than York Cy Pri weekend is all about packg as many parti and paras to three days as humanly possible.

The Court ultimately cid such laws were unnstutnal, pavg the way for gay marriage to be legal all 50 stat, regardls of whether they regnized gay marriag the past. In fact, some unty clerks stat where gay marriage was prevly illegal have already started issug marriage licens to same-sex ’s a list of Pri events happeng New York Cy this, June 26Start Pri weekend off right wh the tradnal NYC Pri Rally, meant to memorate a rally that occurred one month after the Stonewall rts of 1969.

GAY EVENTS, PARTI, HANGOUTS THE DEFINING GAY MOMENTS OF 2015

After the early days of hoe, sometime the 90s, good DJg was supplanted by good club promotg and sudnly you were far more likely to hear 15 different Deborah Cox extend vol mix a gay club than a Frankie Knuckl-spired set.

Sure, thgs have gotten a ltle ls queer recent years as Rhonda has grown to one of LA's domant party brands, but 's still the bt place the cy for polysexual hard Regulars: ol gays, regular gays, ol straight people, and three dus bomber jackets who showed up to Los Globos thkg was trap night. The Scene: Takg place at the cy's monthly Hot Mass party, and wh a tagle like "Ptsburgh's dance mic rager for homos and iends, " you n expect 150-300 mostly male, revelers wh (or probably whout) towels prerly wrapped around their waists. Inspired by the gay scen of yteryear and s own pulsg dis/hoe soundtrack, this is London's most famo gay night, transplanted to the regulars: Rints Jam Hillard, Jim Stanton, Le Howard, and Severo and guts like Ldstrøm and Hercul & Love +1: Cht hair and somethg shy.

Feds raid the New York offic of gay rt webse and arrt the chief executive and several employe, promptg cricism om activists who renew lls for the crimalizatn of prostutn.

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

“This vasn of a nsensual hookup se which is n for and by members of the LGBT muny [is] a real slap the face after gentrifitn and the Giuliani and Bloomberg admistratns drove so many gay bars out of bs and forced people to meet onle stead of person, ” says trans performer Jt Vivian Bond. While there are nflictg acunts of Pope Francis’s meetg wh Kim Davis, ’s not disputed that hemet privately wh a gay uple and their iends at the Vatin Embassy Washgton, D.

The race for the 2016 Republin printial nomatn has so far been marked by vilently anti-LGBT rhetoric, and three of the ndidat — Ted Cz, Mike Huckabee, and Bobby Jdal — attend a homophobic “relig eedom” nference sponsored Iowa by mister Kev Swanson. 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.

THE 17 BT GAY AND LBIAN CLUBS AND PARTI IN SAN FRANCIS

" 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). 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.

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 .

One thg the 2002 documentary When Boys Fly [which followed a group of young gay men attendg the Miami Whe Party] got right was showg someone fallg out [passg out om dg e] was sndalo. People like Michelangelo Signorile, who wrote about his experience at the Palm Sprgs Whe Party Life Outsi, a book about gay culture at the time, were posg that the parti were crics like Signorile, Larry Kramer and Gabriel Rotello, parti were seen as havens for irrponsible behavr, sex and dgs. Most of the kds of studi look at the areas of gay culture—like the bathhoe scene, club scene, the app scene—bee they're supposed hot spots for HIV fectn and rampant dg the qutn is: do the people dog the studi unrstand our muny at all?

OP-ED: THE WHE PARTY AND GAY CULTURE NEED MORE COLOR

This generatnal divi between gay Boomers and lennials has to fluence how they perceive circu parti—or even if there's still a need for, as you said, the circu reached a nadir earlier this century, has that cle been nstant, or have they ma a eback? Over the last uple of years, gay nightlife has gotten a jolt of h energy thanks to a uple of new venu, and the off-playa work of a uple of popular Burng Man mps, and now, so long as you aren't tryg to leave the Castro on Mondays or Tudays, there's pretty much always somewhere lively and ol to shake your ass and get wasted.

Oasis burst onto the gay scene this year, throwg an openg bash on New Year's Eve, and seemed already sted for succs given the party-throwg experience of -owner Hekla.

GAY PRIS 2023 AND 2024

It's the type of thg where even if you don't see on Facebook, if one of their Sunday night parti at Mighty is g up, and you are gay, someone is gog to ask you if you're gog.

DJs Jason Kendig, PeePlay, Bézier, Jackie Hoe, and Josh Cheon sp a bouncg array of neo-dis, hoe, EDM, and whatever else you want to ll , and -the-know homos as well as a smatterg of dyk and straight girls show up drov whenever the ll go out.

THE BT MIAMI GAY PARTI AND LGBTQ+ EVENTS RIGHT NOW

The most recent trend gay nightlife has been the filtratn of Burng Man mps throwg benefs for themselv, the anizers of which have now bee popular party promoters unto themselv. If you're a gafully employed gay, and/or llege ted, and/or preppy, and/or jock-aspirg, and/or an admirer of any of the above, you've likely found your way to Hi Tops on a near weekly basis.

THE 8 TOP GAY CIS FOR 2023

The two-and-a-half-year-old gay sports bar the Castro is nsistently packed on weekends and durg televised sportg events, and on Tudays for trivia, but 's Thursday nights after 10 p.

Gog strong now for 11 years, Tubteak is the longt nng gay party town, and 's where hip kids still go late on a dnken Thursday to dance on the ty Aunt Charlie's dancefloor to DJ B Statn John's unrground dis rerd llectn. Mystopia may have kicked off the Burng Man-do-gay-stuff--the-cy trend, but GlamCocks raised the bar on the sexs quotient, attractg an even younger crowd to throw on a stume, or maybe jt some body glter, and e dance their ass off.

ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL MEN NYC'S GAY NIGHTLIFE SCENE FAC OVER A OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT ALLEGATNS

Now remas the biggt gay dancefloor town, and a place for those lookg to serly, shirtlsly dance to the wee hours of Sunday morng, now that The EndUp is mostly not so gay anymore. Produced annually by promoter Jefey Sanker, the Whe Party is billed as the world's largt gay dance ftival and was scribed by The Huffgton Post as "synonymo wh mastream gay culture. There are plenty of very attractive, dark, black and Asian gays wh magnificent bodi Southern California, so "mastream gay culture" as fed by the Whe Party don't prent self as clive of anyone who nnot be mistaken for Csian the right kd of segregatn and whe privilege is more typil of gay ruals than straight supporters of LGBT rights may thk, pecially given the gay muny's lip service to tolerance and equaly.

The hypocril abily of gays to practice ethnic cln their own tablishments mak difficult to take serly the recent backlash agast Indiana's "relig eedom" paper, I should be a loud supporter of efforts like #BoyttIndiana. That is, the vendors monstrate nsistent applitn of their beliefs to all ctomers, not jt scerely sglg out gays as a special class of "sners" marked for discrimatn. If straight alli knew of the wispread racism amongst gays, they'd likely stop takg gay cri for equaly of all backgrounds experience areas of advantage and disadvantage, but I've been surprised to personally experience such a large number of prejudicial enunters wh gay Csians.

I worry for the mental health of gays of lor who are not perceived as tradnally good-lookg and lack the accs afford to those nsired sufficiently youthful, handsome, classilly built, or wealthy. " LGBT mori are multiple-mori by fn, and they unrstand Cho's metaphor more than prejudice they endure has been recently highlighted by the mise of two segregated gay stutns: the recently nceled HBO show Lookg and recently closed Los Angel dis Catch One.