Techo gay

A couple of weeks ago, Resident Advisor published an article entitled, “America’s Same-sex attracted Techno Underground,” prominently featuring some of our favorite promoters/DJ collectives, including Honey Soundsystem (Minx will be playing alongside them, Steffi, and the Black Madonna on Saturday, April 16 in San Francisco) and Detroit’s own Macho City.

These parties are a throwback to our music’s heritage. Twirl culture was created in the underground, in old warehouses and backroom clubs. In Detroit, we had clubs appreciate Heaven, the Factory, the Gas Station, and Cheeks to name a limited, and DJs love the legendary Ken Collier.

Collier brought a sense of society and belonging to his parties, and it was a place to not only dance, but be free. He set the stage for so many of us after him, and his legacy carries on with us on dance floors today. As Stacey Hotwaxx Hale said in an article for Red Bull Tune Academy, “Ken Collier was the Frankie Knuckles and Larry Levan of Detroit.”

Now that dance society has proliferated mainstream culture, it’s heartening to know that there is a new resurgence endorse to our roots being spearheaded by the queer people, who ar

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