SPECIAL FEATURE: THE GAY DNA OF HOUSE MUSIC |

Contents:

• GAY HOE MIC
• SPECIAL FEATURE: THE GAY DNA OF HOUSE MUSIC
• THE WAREHOE: THE GAY CLUB WHERE HOE MIC GOT S NAME

GAY HOE MIC

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.

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 .

SPECIAL FEATURE: THE GAY DNA OF HOUSE MUSIC

This diversy has been party of the earlit dance scene days but today, 's even more so, where you have straight, gay, young, old... Then, a strange move, which the future will be seen as a se study for reer sabotage, he wrote a homophobic rant on his Facebook page. The post pared homosexuals to paedophil and referred to the LGBT muny as “another breed”.

There might be gay characters Hollyoaks, but ’s not all rabows out there. Electronic mic emerged om a scene that was alternative, diverse and mostly, very, very gay.

THE WAREHOE: THE GAY CLUB WHERE HOE MIC GOT S NAME

The unsung fluence of gay culture may not stem om nsc discrimatn, but when a major ntributn isn’t celebrated, that oversight n allow homophobia to flourish. In 1973 Vce Aletti wrote a piece for Rollg Stone documentg the vert scene of, “After-hours clubs and private lofts open on weekends to members only — a hard-re dance crowd — blacks, Lats, gays.

When asked about dance mic culture, he sniffed: “The rave liftyle of Ibiza the late ‘80s was jt a vanilla versn of the New York gay liftyle of the ‘70s. What many people don't know is that there was a heavg, largely gay y the pac basement every night! The largely gay, black and Hispanic crowd were totally off-their-ts — mostly on Quaalus (known as 'Lus).

The Lift nodd towards New York’s dis palac, but s roots were South London’s largely black, illegal, gay hoe parti (or ‘Blu’ as they were known). Jeremy Norman opened Heaven 1979 and by the early ‘80s, was at the top of s game, givg gay London an epic club that rivalled anythg New York (or the world) had to offer. “The mistake I ma was reuntg how the mastream gay scene kd of rejected — llg the ‘black sheep’.