Harry Gay and his flatmat have been holdg onle parti for LGBTQ+ people sce March 2020.
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- DJ HARRY GAY ON QUEER HOE PARTY: ‘OUR CROWD IS LOVG, HEDONISTIC, AND AT TIM UNHGED’
- QUEER HOE PARTY: MIXED BY HARRY GAY, WACHA & PASSER
- HARRY GAY - QUEER HOE PARTY X FOUNDATN FM TAKEOVER
DJ HARRY GAY ON QUEER HOE PARTY: ‘OUR CROWD IS LOVG, HEDONISTIC, AND AT TIM UNHGED’
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Durg the first lockdown March 2020, Harry Gay and his flatmat Camberwell, south London, began hostg Queer Hoe Party events on Zoom to try and help people wh the muny socialise wh each other. Harry Gay has recently been named by Hunger Magaze as a breakthrough creative of 2023 and is pretty by this year, wh no sign of thgs slowg down. Harry remembers listeng to Ibiza Anthems and Mistry of Sound the r as a kid (Picture: Harry Gay).
Harry Gay: Genre-bendg queer-thumpg chaos, takg you through a blend of hard hoe, mpy techno, nostalgic pop, bass-fuelled acid, and heavy breaks. Soakg the mic om the gay bars and queer clubs, Sk the Pk, Handsome, The Joers Arms, East Bloc, and Dalston Superstore, are a few nights and venu that were on rotatn those early days.
QUEER HOE PARTY: MIXED BY HARRY GAY, WACHA & PASSER
London DJ Harry Gay has shared his dreams for 2023 cludg expandg project Queer Hoe Party which he -found, a new Q&A. * harry gay queer house party *
I never thought I would hear Bjork’s Hyperballad the club until Saoirse played at Homobloc, and was life-changg.
When lockdown h, Londoner Harry Gay and his fellow DJs (who also happen to be his hoemat) created a weekly LGBTQ+ Zoom party om their New Cross pad. Harry Gay: In March my iends and I saw our DJ bookgs disappear, so we thought of ways to make some extra sh and get our iends together who were lockdown all over the untry. Harry Gay: We’ve gone om our n-down kchen an overpriced London hoe share to openg for Years and Years on his UK arena tour… New Cross to Wembley!
HARRY GAY - QUEER HOE PARTY X FOUNDATN FM TAKEOVER
Stream Queer Hoe Party: Mixed by Harry Gay, Wacha & passer by Crack Magaze on sktop and mobile. Play over 320 ln tracks for ee on SoundCloud. * harry gay queer house party *
We n as a llective of five people: Harry Gay, Wacha and passer are the DJs and Liv Wynter and Taali are our hosts. After DJg and throwg parti across the unty for years, hoemat, activists and muny anisers Harry Gay, Wacha and Passer me together on the first Friday of lockdown to throw an onle party to give queers across the globe a sense of release and muny while isolatn.
Activist, DJ and muny aniser Harry Gay is one of untls queer creativ remag rilient durg the ronavis panmic paralysg the world. ((From L-R) Performer Liv Wter, DJs Nik and Harry Gay.
Last Friday night, when London’s clubs were closed and the streets motnls, a DJ lled Harry Gay set up a turntable and opened up Zoom on his laptop. Addrsg his webm, Gay live-streamed a night of queer bops, hoe bangers and techno clangers to more than 1, 000 people around the world. Like any good host, Gay wore a see-through t-shirt and a cha harns to get to the spir as his five hoebound flatmat donned lamé and leather and danced around him.
Queer Hoe Party are the DJ llective and DIY party prrisg accsibily, muny and straight-out bangers. We speak to foundg members and rint DJs Harry Gay, Wacha and passer, who also share a sweat-ducg set * harry gay queer house party *
The ronavis panmic may have upend the London’s nightlife, but Gay is one of untls queer DJs, micians and club owners showg rilience and genuy a time of crisis.
After losg bookgs one by one, Gay, who works at LGBT+ homelsns anisatn The Outsi Project, told PkNews that he sat down wh his flatmat one day to share ias on how to make sh for rent. Queer Hoe Party was -found by DJ and activist Harry Gay. Broadst over Zoom, a vio-chat app signed for stale rporate meetgs, virtual club-goers are sent a lk to the weekly 9pm set that tak place Gay’s hohare.
“What started as a simple ia to create some extra sh durg this crisis has turned to somethg so overwhelmgly betiful, ” Gay said. “The reason we all head out to queer nights is bee of the muny and sense of belongg that wh , ” Gay explaed. We do not tolerate ableism, ageism, body shamg, biphobia, fatphobia, homophobia, misogyny, racism, transphobia or xenophobia.
After the ronavis outbreak upend daily life, queer creativ such as Harry Gay and the Queer Hoe Party are gog onle to brg LGBT+ clubs to you. * harry gay queer house party *
Gay strsed that he and his flatmat, some of whom n a queer anti-fascist DJ llective and rad show lled GLAMTIFA wh him, are all dog what they n to support one another and the wir muny this crisis. “If you’re earng a salary still, ” Gay said, “I thk ’s important that you keep channellg your e to onle queer entertament as you would have been if the bars were still open!
In transformg a flat stuffed wh succulents and traers to a digal DJ ssn, Gay explaed that, above all, hostg Queer Hoe Party has ma him appreciate how accsible onle parti n be for everyone. (From L-R) Performer Liv Wter, DJs Nik and Harry Gay, -founrs of GLAMTIFA. Gay said: “Disabled people and people wh accs needs n pop and jo the party whout havg to worry about accsibily, nro-divergent people n avoid sensory overload, survivors n have a boogie and feel safe.
Christmas Day is gettg a ‘big gay party’.