lets find a place they say somewhere far away

[dubkitty]

[D.o.S.]

house music was the punk rock of urban gay people. one of the folks i used to work with in the rave scene in SF was an old-school NYC gay man who went all the way back to the days of Studio 54 and the Limelight, and he wrote a whole Internet history series on house music and its political and social significance for people in the 70s and 80s.

Any chance you could throw up a link? Sounds interesting.

Disco is still fucking misery incarnate, though.

[dubkitty]

Any chance you could throw up a link? Sounds interesting.

http://www.livingart.com/raving/articles/housemusic101.htm

the slightly parochial nature of his perspective--for example, he feels that all negative reaction to disco/club culture was motivated by homophobia and anti-hedonism, when my experience at the time was that a lot of people were repulsed by the crass materialism and looks-centrism of hetero club culture--is made up for by his detailed and intensely personal recollections. people clung to this music and the culture that grew around it like a life preserver in a culture and a time when gay people in America didn't have a whole lot to cling to...he tells some of that story.