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“GLASTONBURY IS REALLY QUEER!”: BEHD THE SCEN AT NYC DOWNLOW, THE FTIVAL’S RINT GAY CLUB
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Recently, the star pated rabow lours on the streets of Warsaw to keep a promise to a Polish fan brand her native untry ‘the most homophobic I’ve ever seen’ and wished she uld see the pri lours there. From the giant dystopian head of the IICON stage to the ever-popular gay club NYC Downlow - 's the place to be when the sun go down. Amid a antic hive of activy the Block9 fields jt days before the ftival gat open, creative director Stephen Gallagher spoke to Somerset Live about everythg om creatg the first gay venue at Glastonbury to flyg massive DJs om the US for this year's ftival and why you should grow a motache for this year's party.
"We wanted to get volved and start Glastonbury's first gay venue, as Gion felt that was somethg missg om the ftival experience. NYC Downlow has been a rnerstone of Glastonbury nightlife ever sce then and has been brand as one of the bt gay party venu on the pla by some. Always full of talented gay and queer performers, the club enurag dience participatn and experimentatn as part of the experience.
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” So says drag superstar Jonny Woo, backstage at NYC Downlow, Glastonbury’s rint gay club, molled on New York’s meatpackg district the ‘80s. 2019 marks 50 years sce Stonewall, the anti-homophobia rts held New York.
But the mastays of the past have been NYC Downlow, the pan-sexual film-set of downtown New York’s gay scene rammed wh go-go-butchers; Genosys, a climbg futuristic esystem that doubl as the leafit DJ booth on earth; and Block9 self, the club si a ed tower block wh a tube rriage stuck the si of . It is 50 years sce the Stonewall rts, when the boozers at a New York gay bar cid that they had been hassled one too many tim. That night sparked the morn LGBT rights movement – which some may say took a while to arrive at wasn’t until 2007 that gay culture found full-throated exprsn, the shape of the NYC Downlow, a meticulo recreatn of a sleazy 70s gay club, plete wh drag queens, go-go dancers and even a darkroom round the back of the speakers, for those who would like an timate moment soundtracked by pulverisg hoe mic served up by DJs cludg Midland and Eric Morillo.