The flamboyant electronic sound of San Francis’s dancefloors soundtracked gay liberatn the '70s and '80s, even as s muny faced cimatn as a rult of the the AIDS crisis. Marke Bichke tak a ep dive to the efforts beg ma to prerve ephemera of the cy's pneerg scene, and speaks to the San Francis Dis Prervatn Society, Dark Entri' Josh Cheon and milogist Louis Neibur about his prehensive new book, Menergy: San Francis’s Gay Dis Sound
Contents:
- IT TAK A VILLAGE, PEOPLE: PRERVG SAN FRANCIS'S GAY DIS HISTORY
- ESTATE AGENT JAILED FOR VIC ATTACK ON TWO GAY MEN HOLDG HANDS
IT TAK A VILLAGE, PEOPLE: PRERVG SAN FRANCIS'S GAY DIS HISTORY
They’ve been overlooked, unrpaid and told they uldn’t mix. Now, however, female DJs are headg for the history books. We talk to them about a lifetime on the cks – and fdg a home gay clubs * gay female djs *
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Photography: Jason SiegelWhen I was growg up as a fan of electronic dance mic, I stggled to fd any role mols or reprentatn of gay people the scene.
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ESTATE AGENT JAILED FOR VIC ATTACK ON TWO GAY MEN HOLDG HANDS
* gay female djs *
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This diversy has been party of the earlit dance scene days but today, 's even more so, where you have straight, gay, young, old... He is also known as the creator of the acclaimed documentary Holler If You Hear Me: Black and Gay the Church and the thor of Live Through This: Survivg the Intersectns of Sexualy, God, and Race. LGBTQ Pri is a time for celebratg inty, visibily, and activism for human rights and for rellectg on s roots – om the first march orchtrated by activist Brenda Howard 1970, exactly a year after the Stonewall Uprisg, to early anizatns such as Gay Liberatn Front, STAR (found by Marsha P.
Johnson), Gay Activists Alliance, and Radilbians that were tablished thereafter. Stt eventually held a rincy at Better Days, also buildg his system at the club due to a bar-level sound system and the owner’s lack of vtment newer equipment, and beme a centric part of the gay club’s muny. Larry Levan, Stt’s iend and DJ at The Garage, even asked Stt to perform there to attract Better Days’ gay black mographic.