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Contents:
- THE UNSUNG HISTORY OF CIRCU PARTI, WHERE GAY MEN SEEK SEX AND FREEDOM
- FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
THE UNSUNG HISTORY OF CIRCU PARTI, WHERE GAY MEN SEEK SEX AND FREEDOM
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A equent circu party (gay rave/dance events wh wi range of scen) goer, normally ed to scribe a gay man but nowadays n be ed for anyone who go to circu parti often. A circu party is an all-night gay rave of sorts where men (and a sprkle of women) gather to dance the night away. ” The “bird circu” was the name for Manhattan’s gay bars the East 50s (datg om the 1950s), but the “circu queen” term is still ed today, long after the end of the “bird circu” the 1960s.
A circu queen was, and I thk still is, a gay man who followed a certa pattern of life New York, which is where I lived. And clud Fire Island the summer, clud a certa gay gym the wter, baths, and certa dance clubs. However, the realy of the bear culture was an embracg of the diversy of body type, a move away om the homogenisatn of the gay body to what is scribed as the ‘circu queen’ or ‘mcle mary.
FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
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10 June 2001, San Francis (CA) Chronicle, “Gay film ftival personal touch” by Wley Morris, Datebook sec., pg.
6 September 2002, Boston (MA) Globe, “Movie Review: ‘Circu’ an endls cycle of clich on gay scene” by Christopher Muther, pg.
There’s a v heterosexual (played by oime “Greatt Amerin Hero” William Katt) who profs off gay men, the straight woman (Kiersten Warren) who lov gay men, a home wrecker, a new agey DJ, and an HIV-posive circu queen who spends his spare time whippg up more Special K than Kellogg’s. A gay man, ually between the ag of 30 and ath, who equents circu parti large ci (often named after a lor, as “the whe party”).
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A strg of gay bars along Third Avenue wh ornhologil nam known to patrons llectively as “the bird circu” gave rise to the term “circu queen” which lasted for s after the bars were gone. Perhaps the middle class gay muny was more circumspect the 1940s than Remarque portrayed. Or maybe is simply that the young gay men of the 1950s East Si, who were only early middle-age when gay history began to be wrten the 1970s, were more willg to share their stori than their elrs.
This particular segment of the gay world did not talk openly about such thgs back their day. We’ve wrten before about Jonny McGovern’s song for the ag “Gay Qutns, ” and now we’re pleased to report that this o to circu queens now plete wh a superr vio. 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.
The Urban Dictnary scrib a circu queen as: A gay man, ually between the ag of 30 and ath, who equents circu parti large ci (often nam * gay circuit queen *
" 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.
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.