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Our community is historically underground, so while we try to navigate safer above ground situations, we’re met with our vision being turned around by venues, fees being slashed in comparison to others, and massive backlash from social media platforms on content that we use for promotion. Where these problems are overarching, LGBTQIA+ people face these issues tenfold, since these are things that press this community in all areas of life. Katie Rex: Nightlife as a whole faces a lot of common issues across the board with venue accessibility, fees, and support from society at large. Sharing knowledge with people who match your energy is necessary, that’s how I found my community within the NYC scene. I think people who feel out of place will always try to dig deeper, to find something more (already existing, or by creating something new).
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NK Badtz Maru: Finding queer raves in NYC that I fuck with was definitely a long process, and I am lucky to have met a solid crew of people along the way. SHADE was a mix of hard house and techno, so as not to scare a largely house-loving crowd away. But we were careful at first not to beat people over the head with hard techno only. Those raves seem to have been pivotal and eye-opening moments for a lot of people in terms where to take queer nightlife.
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worked together from 2010 to 2015 but parted ways after the SHADE project closed. This is right around when Ladyfag and I started throwing the SHADE raves. Although it wasn’t really queer back then, I figured it was time. I waited a few years to see if the community was ready to take on techno, and then suddenly Bossa Nova Civic Club popped up. I was still processing what had happened to me there, and I found that Brooklyn wasn’t ready for anything like that yet because there was no queer techno scene to speak of in New York. Seva Granik: This story goes back to 2007 when I came back from Berlin after having had discovered Berghain. There were later periods when it felt like no traditional venues were supporting or fostering our community and for our own events in the 2000s we ended up sourcing spaces off the beaten path that could more conducive to the way in which we celebrate. We called it “ICONIQUE”.Ĭarry Nation: Having always been queer and needing a place to congregate, we’ve sought out these spaces from the moment we arrived in NYC in the ’90s. In the summer of 2016, during that first visit, we as NWD curated an event in Brooklyn at the venue Secret Project Robot. Once I discovered that parties like The Bunker, 11:11, and Unter existed, the notion that I wouldn’t enjoy the techno scene in NYC went away.Ĭali Rose: My first experience with the NYC queer techno scene involved an event put together by my DJ collective New World Dysorder managed by an intimate community of QTPOC members and founded in 2014 by a family of trans-femme DJs and artists.
Although I’ve always loved techno, I didn’t think I’d enjoy the space I’d occupy in that scene as a gay black guy. LSDXOXO: Initially, I gravitated towards the scenes in NYC that focused on more eclectic styles of music and curation, so I started out frequenting parties like Contessa Stuto’s “Whorehouse” or Venus X’s “GHE20G0TH1K”. I love introducing people to fast techno and trance. This is where I discovered what techno can really do to my body and how I can dance to it for 12 hours straight. Around this time, people started throwing techno parties. Lydo: I remember going to places like the old Spectrum, Trans Pecos and parties like GHE20G0TH1K. How did you first discover or get involved in the queer techno scene in NYC? The Face’s Paul Bui followed up on the discussion with some of the dinner guests and notable figures including: Volvox, Lydo (X‑TRA SERVICES), LSDXOXO, Katie Rex ( Bound), TT, Carry Nation, False Witness, Seva Granik ( Unter), NK Badtz Maru ( Hot ‘N Spicy), Kozlov and Joey Quinones ( Agenda), Cali Rose ( New World Dysorder), NE/RE/A (Distrik1), Justin Cudmore (Balance, The Bunker) and Tom Calahan of Techno Queers… To address some of these issues, The Face invited several NYC techno community leaders to discuss the importance of carving out space for marginalised bodies. Within New York’s ever-changing and gentrified landscape, many challenges are imposed on the techno community, and especially its queer members. The NYC techno scene, as colossal as it is, remains incomparable at present with techno’s birthplace, Detroit.