Long live queer nightlife : how the closing of gay bars sparked a revolution / Amin Ghaziani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ghaziani, Amin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay people--Social aspects.

Gay people.

Special events.

Nightclubs.

Gay business enterprises.

Intersectionality (Sociology).

Gay bars.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"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 parties-club nights-wherein 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"-- Provided by publisher.

"It's closing time for an alarming number of gay bars in cities around the globe-but it's definitely not the last danceIn 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 parties-club nights-wherein 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Frontispiece

Title Page

Copyright

Epigraph

Contents

Preface: Buttmitzvah (Troxy)

The Closure Epidemic

1. Ways of Seeing

Femmetopia (In a Basement)

2. Another World

The CAMPerVAN (Behind Railway Arches)

3. When Capitalism Crushes

The Cocoa Butter Club (Underbelly)

4. A Core of Whiteness

Hungama (In a Converted Warehouse)

5. Reorientations

INFERNO (Institute of Contemporary Art)

6. The Room Feels Queer

Gayzpacho (Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club)

That Was Fun

The Crew

Acknowledgments

Partying as a Professor

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Ghaziani, Amin Long Live Queer Nightlife

ISBN:

9780691253862

OCLC:

1415894578