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Hoe mic is gay mic. The sound emerged om the queer black and latx club cultur of New York and Chigo the ’80s. Strangely, the roots of the…

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THE BETIFUL BLACK GAY HISTORY OF CHIGO HOE’S BIRTH

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Hoe mic is gay mic. Spac like Paradise Garage, The Warehoe, Mic Box and Heaven were stmental the scene's rise, while the gay BIPOC rint DJs, Larry Levan, Frankie Knuckl, Ron Hardy and Ken Collier, rpectively, tly fed the genre's sound. Thankfully there has been a great al of progrs over the past battg this erasure: LGBTQ+ reprentatn media has been steadily on the rise across almost all forms, and studi show that Gen Z is poised to be the gayt generatn yet wh almost one three intifyg as queer.

GAY BLACK MEN HELPED CREATE EDM. WHY DO STRAIGHT WHE MEN DOMATE IT?

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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. It's ol to be gay. I stggled my whole life wh the fact that I was gay and I didn't fully e out until my early 20s, around the time I moved to Chigo.

Frankie Knuckl wasn't fed by beg gay, but he blossomed a culture that allowed him to jt be himself. As far as gay nightlife go, Paradise Garage had a big fluence on .

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

This diversy has been party of the earlit dance scene days but today, 's even more so, where you have straight, gay, young, old... ” and Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” the ’70s to Christa Aguilera’s “Betiful, ” Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” and Scissor Sisters’ “Let’s Have a Kiki” the 21st century, mic has helped LGBTQ people to both survive and thrive.

I’ve worked wh Madonna for 25 years, and I cred her a lot for what she’s done for the gay muny. He was signed to a label as an openly gay drag queen [ 1991], and that’s such a huge part of our history — and what Pri tly is about. Judy Garland was such a gay in.

She is Gay Pri self. She is the queen of Gay Pri.

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