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Contents:

• THE UNSUNG HISTORY OF CIRCU PARTI, WHERE GAY MEN SEEK SEX AND FREEDOM
• THE 10 MOST FAB GAY DANCE PARTI (WH ACTUAL GOOD MIC) NORTH AMERI
• HERE ARE 27 GAY PARTI HAPPENG ACROSS THE US DURG MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND
• THE BT MIAMI GAY PARTI AND LGBTQ+ EVENTS RIGHT NOW
• GAY PRIS 2023 AND 2024
• 50+ GAY PRI EVENTS & PARAS AROUND THE WORLD
• SCHOOL BOARD TERMAT TEACHER OVER DOLLY PARTON, MILEY CYS 'RABOWLAND' SONG, FOLKS STILL GAY
• SCHOOL BOARD TERMAT TEACHER OVER DOLLY PARTON, MILEY CYS 'RABOWLAND' SONG, FOLKS STILL GAY

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

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. " 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.

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

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. 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.

HERE ARE 27 GAY PARTI HAPPENG ACROSS THE US DURG MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND

Then you started seeg the rise of the ter, which pecially affected the gay datg scene. A handful of proment gay punds saw the parti as a waste of our energy and rourc.

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?

THE BT MIAMI GAY PARTI AND LGBTQ+ EVENTS RIGHT NOW

Bee what they're "studyg" is jt what go on regular gay that "regular gay life" has e to mean somethg very different 2017. There's no qutn that for gay men, thgs have gotten better.

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?

GAY PRIS 2023 AND 2024

And if so, what's the motivatn for younger gay men to attend a circu party?

H ave the parti themselv evolved to meet the challenge of a changed landspe for gay/queer culture a post-liberatn world? " We create a gay space on the dance floor of mastream parti.

50+ GAY PRI EVENTS & PARAS AROUND THE WORLD

EDC enurag ongog cricism is that the parti reprent only one small segment of gay men. Although there's a looseng up about attus toward gay people, the societi are still very tradnal.

Even though was gay people who vented hoe mic and pneered dis, gay parti haven't always been the bt plac to hear good mic.

SCHOOL BOARD TERMAT TEACHER OVER DOLLY PARTON, MILEY CYS 'RABOWLAND' SONG, FOLKS STILL GAY

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. Wher good gay mic no more.

SCHOOL BOARD TERMAT TEACHER OVER DOLLY PARTON, MILEY CYS 'RABOWLAND' SONG, FOLKS STILL GAY

Thanks to s like GaysHateTechno there's more awarens than ever about the ntributns gay people are currently makg to qualy dance mic. 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. The scene: This wasn't always a gay party but thanks to Mar Diaz, is now.