Truly, finding a suitable theme for our upcoming East Palace West Palace edition wasn’t all that easy this time. As our following is unequivocally growing, we feel increasingly more committed to challenge parochial sites of queer representation. This means that we won’t cease to emphasize the political implications of our project. It ain’t all glitter and drama huney. Instead we hope to investigate the unconscious biases instilled in our collective psyche by the archaic norms of society. We want to transcend queer cultural traditions but also reflect its established histories. What do we mean?

A few editions ago it came to our attention that there was a note of disatisfaction about the fact that our DJs often play soulful, vocal-oriented House or Disco music. We are aware that this is the DNA of recognised archetypes in queer culture. If something like ‘vernacular queerness’ exists then this is best epitomized by the subcultural environs of 1970s Chicago or New York. We are aware that queer culture goes far beyond such archetypes.

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