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).

nightclubs.

LGBTQ+ night life.

Physical Description:

xvii, 269 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"It's closing time for an alarming number of gay bars in cities around the globe--but 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 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:

Preface: Buttmitzvah (Troxy)

The closure epidemic

Ways of seeing : Femmetopia (in a basement)

Another world : The CAMPerVAN (behind railway arches)

When capitalism crushes : The Cocoa Butter Club (underbelly)

A core of whiteness : Hungama (in a converted warehouse)

Reorientations : INFERNO (Institute of Contemporary Art)

The room feels queer : Gayzpacho (Bethnal Green Working Men's Club)

That was fun.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Ghaziani, Amin. Long live queer nightlife

ISBN:

9780691253855

0691253854

OCLC:

1375549125