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Contents:

• BT GAY ANTHEMS OF 2017: CRIC’S PICKS
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• PANSY CRAZE: THE WILD 1930S DRAG PARTI THAT KICKSTARTED GAY NIGHTLIFE
• THE MIL LEGACY OF GAY BATHHO
• FLASH THE FLH: MANCHTER'S GAY CLUB HERO – PICTUR

BT GAY ANTHEMS OF 2017: CRIC’S PICKS

) here are the bt gay anthems om the past year.

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THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

14 this week), gay clubs adopted this track to regular rotatn thanks to s slicky-choreographed vio. “I’m dog to reprent gay people. ” And while both his releas this year, Facsie and Ricky, are filled wh nuendo, ’s the sctive, YLXR-assisted “Daddy” that serv regular rotatn at gay hot spots.

The cy already had a number of gay-iendly bars, cludg Pfaff’s Beer Cellar (favoured by Walt Whman) and the Sli, which Joseph Pulzer’s New York Eveng World labelled “morally the lowt New York, Paris, London or Berl”. ” In Berl, you uld hear sgers performg Das Lila Lied (The Lavenr Song), one of the earlit songs to celebrate homosexualy.

PANSY CRAZE: THE WILD 1930S DRAG PARTI THAT KICKSTARTED GAY NIGHTLIFE

“This song beme the gay anthem of the time and still has stat today, ” says sger Ute Lemper. At Club Abbey, Mal dched the drs and revented himself as a high-mp, waspish, obvly gay man – and was this that sgled him out.

“What was novel is that he did not brg a drag act to the club, but stead performed elegant men’s clothg, and brought wh him the mp w of the gay subculture, ” explas LGBT historian JD Doyle. Photograph: Brigte DummerBut Paris had a reputatn for s laissez-faire attu, and queer performers were enuraged by the succs enjoyed the cy by Amerin performers cludg bisexual dancer Josephe Baker and gay trapeze artist Barbette.

The bawdy, openly gay Pl O’Montis died the Sachsenhsen mp, jt 25 north of the stag he once mand. Wh the Hays Co effectively banng Hollywood om portrayg homosexual characters (or “attemptg to keep the dual-sex boys and lbos out of films” as Variety put ), and war Europe on the horizon, the LGBT performers who had domated nightlife for more than a were driven back unrground. It would be s before we would see anythg as outrageo Bowie Ma Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Mic by Darryl W Bullock is out now, published by Duckworth Overlook.

THE MIL LEGACY OF GAY BATHHO

Grg Moror - Knights In Whe Sat - Photography: Ron Slenzak Sex ually wh s own soundtrack, natural or synthized, but the mic of gay bathho, snas and sex clubs the 1970s has had an unmon pull on ntemporary dance mic. Droppg s ltle terrycloth towel at the tersectn of classic dis, extend funk jams, smooth vol R&B, spacey jazz and early electronic experimentatn, and now streaked wh the nostalgic gleam of outlaw sexual liberatn, the cisg culture of the post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS gay era has bee a ee-floatg metaphor of sorts for unfettered physil munn, subcultural eedom and wild, wild nights.

FLASH THE FLH: MANCHTER'S GAY CLUB HERO – PICTUR

When gay men steamed up, society’s shackl slid off. The ee-spired transcennce and sexually charged imagery of retro homo sex clubs and dancefloors have perated the world of straight dance mic producers, poppg up recently DJ Hell’s mcle-bulgg “I Want U” vio, a llaboratn wh the Tom of Fland Foundatn, and director Pete Fowler’s ecstacy-engulfed clip for Joe Goddard’s “Home.

And gay bathhoe-themed parti like DJ B Statn John’s The Tubteak Connectn party San Francis and the trepid mil archeology of gay DJ llectiv like Honey Soundsystem have helped keep origal bathhoe mic om slippg to obscury. Bette Midler at the Contental Baths - Marahuana In their 1970s heyday, bathho were spots for gay men to hook up, dally around munal hot tubs or snas and rent small rooms if they felt like some privacy. Almost every major cy Ameri and Europe had them, meang gay men uld rely on meetg others durg their travels.

“A lot of sex happened there, ” said Fab, “But the were rare plac where gay men uld e together eely, so a lot of relatnships started there, too.