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Contents:

• THE UNSUNG HISTORY OF CIRCU PARTI, WHERE GAY MEN SEEK SEX AND FREEDOM
• A NIGHT OUT AT ASIA’S BIGGT GAY CIRCU PARTY: GCIRCU DURG SONGKRAN
• GAY CIRCU PARTI BARCELONA AND THEIR IMPACT ON GONORRHEA INCINCE
• I AM SEOUL 2018 | KOREA’S HOTTT GAY CIRCU FTIVAL
• MOSW GAY DANCE CLUBS & PARTI
• OUR ULTIMATE GUI TO GCIRCU 2018, THAILAND’S GAYT CELEBRATN AT SONGKRAN
• CIRCUX

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

As one of the most excg aspects of gay culture, circu parti are one of the ultimate p that every gay man should experience at least once as one of the most memorable events your life. Durg a weekend, there are thoands of gay men gyratg and prentg until the last DJ has left the buildg. HomoCulture along wh the -producer of Matee USA, Jake Rniw, offer the great circu party secrets to ensure that your first experience is amazg, and maybe even exceed your expectatns.

It’s always a hot time to be had dancg around thoands of attractive gay men, and keepg the circu party secrets md will make your experience all the more empowerg and celebratory. 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.

A NIGHT OUT AT ASIA’S BIGGT GAY CIRCU PARTY: GCIRCU DURG SONGKRAN

" 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.

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.

GAY CIRCU PARTI BARCELONA AND THEIR IMPACT ON GONORRHEA INCINCE

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.

Then you started seeg the rise of the ter, which pecially affected the gay datg scene.

I AM SEOUL 2018 | KOREA’S HOTTT GAY CIRCU FTIVAL

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?

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?

MOSW GAY DANCE CLUBS & PARTI

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

OUR ULTIMATE GUI TO GCIRCU 2018, THAILAND’S GAYT CELEBRATN AT SONGKRAN

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. 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. No one lov a great party more than HomoCulture rears, and 2018, we have curated events that are gog to pop off and you certaly do not want to miss them. The followg events are all over North Ameri, so take not and we hope to see you there as we take off on the HomoCulture Tour!

Now more than ever, the gay muny needs to e together solidary, and at this year’s Wter Party Ftival, the LGBTQ are prepared to e out full force to not only dance the days and nights away, but to raise ccial funds to fight for equaly. Acknowledgg that the LGBTQ muny is at a crossroads, this year’s Denver Pri aims to ph the agenda of s people even further, workg wh the cy and throughout the state an effort to challenge the stat quo by beg remag val and celebratg the achievements of those lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer people there and abroad.

CIRCUX

What began as a memoratn to the Stonewall Rts of 1969 has evolved and grown to one of the premiere events of the ternatnal gay muny, wh the Herage of Pri anizatn workg each year to promote an event whose purpose is to te, spire, and celebrate the LGBTQ muny. Regnized as the biggt outdoor street ftival all of the Midwt, the Northalstad Ftival jt gets bigger and better wh each passg year and is fely where the boys are, so expect HomoCulture to be out full force to jo the weekend of ftivi. Wh last year’s attendance at an all-time high, expect nothg ls than bigger, better, faster, more and HomoCulture will be there to engage all the ftivi.

From the hot men, the hot celebri, and the para to end all paras, HomoCulture will have s hands pletely full this weekend, and so will you! Of urse, there are plenty of other amazg and fantastic Pri events, circu parti, ftivals, street fairs, and celebratns on the gay lendar 2018, but the are jt 12 that we really like. We want to hear about them, and maybe, jt maybe, they’ll bee part of our 2019 HomoCulture Tour!

At first, there were few signs that nearly 20, 000 gay men were here the hotel, but as I got closer to the party entrance, that’s when I spotted them: guys gold shorts (much too short even for this sweaty Thai weather), bulgg biceps, feathers everywhere, a drag queen platform sho.