Skip to main content

Search


Results for: LGBTQ+

Three decades of Trade: celebrating 30 years of boundary breaking LGBTQ+ raving

The fierce LGBTQ+ party Trade was the UK’s first legal after-hours club event, opening at 3am and closing at 9am. It laid the groundwork for a new on-and-on party culture, while its sexual and gender diversity was a forerunner for today’s queer club scene. As it celebrates its 30th anniversary, and prepares for its 24-hour birthday party at Egg London, Joe Roberts speaks to some of its regular DJs, designers and founder Laurence Malice about Trade's boundary-breaking legacy

It’s Sunday afternoon, 16th March 2008, and the dancefloor of Turnmills is packed with dancers in varying states of undress. Watching over them, grinning maniacally...

Unorthodox Events and Queer Rave are two club-nights that are creating new spaces for LGBTQ+ people in the drum & bass/jungle scene. Jack Ramage speaks...

The UK drum & bass and jungle scene lacks queer visibility. While issues like gender diversity and whitewashing have, in recent years, become the focus...

Unsound, Brutaż, Oramics and more speak out...

Poland's electronic music community has called for global support following a spate of anti-LGBTQ+ violence.

Labels and festivals including Unsound, Brutaż and Oramics have united...

Club Q

At least 25 others have been left injured

At least five people have been killed in a shooting at Colorado LGBTQ+ nightclub Club Q after an attacker opened fire in the club on...

UK’s largest LGBTQ+ club night Sink The Pink announces final event at Printworks

"No party can last forever," said co-founder Glyn Fussell in a statement

Sink The Pink have announced their final event at Printworks. After 14 years, the UK's largest LGBTQ+ club night will come to an end following...

SPFDJ, Juliana Huxtable, object blue, LSDXOXO, VTSS and Rebekah are among the artists confirmed to play the festival

The first LGBTQ+ electronic music and camping festival will launch in the UK this year.

London’s Flesh Queer Festival will take place on 28th and...

'Rave Pride' wants to establish a new form of advocacy

A rave for LGBTQ+ rights is set to take place outside the office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv this Friday, 30th July. 

'Rave...

Eliza Rose

The video is directed by Faboo TV founder Jeanie Crystal

Eliza Rose celebrates Hackney’s LGBTQ+ performance art community in her new music video, ‘B.O.T.A.' ('Baddest of Them All'). The magical, Lewis Caroll-inspired video "crosses sexuality...

We will be supporting a selected creative for a dance music-focused project

 

DJ Mag will partner with AZ Magazine creative fund to support Black LGBTQ+ creatives.

Over the past five years, AZ have created a self-funded, award-nominated...

'The Boombox Affair' is to be released on 17th August...

Paranoid London have revealed they will release a new EP, which is a tribute to the late San Francisco LGBTQ activist and DJ, Bubbles, who...

AZ Mag branding logo

Applications are now open for the second round of funding

AZ Mag have opened the applications for the second round of their Creative Fund initiative. Over the past seven years, AZ have created a self-funded...

The Dalston Superstore favourites inaugurate the imprint on 1st June

A new LGBTQ+ focused record label, 51-53, is launching in June with an EP from Super Drama, titled 'Excess'. It lands on 1st June.

The...

Xilhu Ayebaitari was recently awarded the AZ Mag creative grant in collaboration with DJ Mag

Xilhu Ayebaitari will launch a new stream series this month, platforming Black & POC LGBTQ+ jungle and d&b artists. 

Titled Queer Rave, the series is...

DJ Mag are providing sponsorship for a dance music-focused project

AZ Mag have opened the applications for their Creative Fund initiative.

Over the past five years, AZ have created a self-funded, award-nominated online community. Since...

The Motown-signed vocalist had founded a network of LGBT-friendly churches later in his life

Carl Bean, the US gospel artist who sang the gay pride anthem 'I Was Born This Way', has died, aged 77.

A statement shared by...