The Unsung History of Circu Parti, Where Gay Men Seek Sex and Freedom

Contents:

• THE BT GAY CLUBS AMERI
• LGBTQ BROOKLYN – A GAY GUY’S WEEKEND GUI TO BROOKLYN
• THE UNSUNG HISTORY OF CIRCU PARTI, WHERE GAY MEN SEEK SEX AND FREEDOM
• THE 10 BEST PARIS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS PARIS
• CLUBS ET BARS GAYS à MARSEILLECLUBS ET BARS GAYS à MARSEILLE
• LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
• GAY NIGHTLIFE BALTIMORE: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE

THE BT GAY CLUBS AMERI

Macri Park – gay bar Williamsburg. While a lot of the NYC gay nightlife is over Manhattan, Brooklyn still has a stronghold on the queer nightlife. Brooklyn’s most popular gay bar is Metropolan—a dive bar wh events all week long and drag shows jt about every night (and a great happy hour special).

Nearby, The Rosemont is a newer gay bar that rarely charg a ver fee and feels a lot more sual and fortable than the scene-y Metro. HARDER gay party (monthly) Brooklyn.

LGBTQ BROOKLYN – A GAY GUY’S WEEKEND GUI TO BROOKLYN

Further out Brooklyn, the gay club 3 Dollar Bill hosts a variety of techno queer parti and ocsnal big-ticket events.

Brand Saloon gay bar Prospect Heights. From The Tillary, you n easily reach the LGBTQ nightlife both Park Slope (Good Judy’s, Gger’s), the gay bars Crown Heights & Bed-Stuy, and the bigger gay clubs Williamsburg.

There’s that many ol and hip and queer thgs to do Brooklyn, ’s what mak New York Cy’s bt gay borough.

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.

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" 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. 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.

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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.

LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE

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?

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?

GAY NIGHTLIFE BALTIMORE: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE

" 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. Everyone knows that change n be cremental, but the phrase “gay bar” sounds cliché anymore. The cy’s nizens talk about often: Nightlife tablishments, be they storied or new on the scen, have seen their rpective clientel grow to be clive of not jt gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr lols and visors recently.

It’s not overtly “gay!