It’s completely free and fans are implored to log-into PayPayl and tip to aid troubled artists. Being on Zoom allows followers to chat to one another, too. (Queer House Party)īroadcast over Zoom, a video-chat app designed for stale corporate meetings, virtual club-goers are sent a link to the weekly 9pm set that takes place in Gay’s houseshare.įellow resident DJs Passer and Wacha join in with the session hosted remotely by artist Liv Wynter. Queer House Party was co-founded by DJ and activist Harry Gay. That’s when the idea for Queer House Party was struck. Queer House Party: ‘We are able to bring a sense of community and normality to thousands of people.’įor those who pay the bills through partying, the lockdown has made finances dire and forced creatives to wrestle with the new reality of COVID-19.Īfter losing bookings one by one, Gay, who works at LGBT+ homelessness organisation The Outside Project, told PinkNews that he sat down with his flatmates one day to share ideas on how to make cash for rent.
The coronavirus pandemic may have upended the London’s nightlife, but Gay is one of countless queer DJs, musicians and club owners showing resilience and ingenuity in a time of crisis. Like any good host, Gay wore a see-through t-shirt and a chain harness to get into the spirit as his five housebound flatmates donned lamé and leather and danced around him.
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