Long Live Queer Nightlife
How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution
Amin Ghaziani
- 288 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Long Live Queer Nightlife
How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution
Amin Ghaziani
About This Book
It's closing time for an alarming number of gay bars in cities around the globeâbut it's definitely not the last dance In this exhilarating journey into underground parties, pulsating with life and limitless possibility, acclaimed author Amin Ghaziani unveils the unexpected revolution revitalizing urban nightlife.Far from the gay bar with its largely white, gay male clientele, here is a dazzling scene of secret partiesâclub nightsâwherein culture creatives, many of whom are queer, trans, and racial minorities, reclaim the night in the name of those too long left out. Episodic, nomadic, and radically inclusive, club nights are refashioning queer nightlife in boundlessly imaginative and powerfully defiant ways.Drawing on Ghaziani's immersive encounters at underground parties in London and more than one hundred riveting interviews with everyone from bar owners to party producers, revelers to rabble-rousers, Long Live Queer Nightlife showcases a spectacular, if seldom-seen, vision of a queer world shimmering with self-empowerment, inventiveness, and joy.