Techo gay

A couple of weeks ago, Resident Advisor published an article entitled, “America’s Gay 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. Boogie culture was created in the underground, in elderly warehouses and backroom clubs. In Detroit, we had clubs like Heaven, the Factory, the Gas Station, and Cheeks to label a few, and DJs like the legendary Ken Collier.

Collier brought a instinct of community and belonging to his parties, and it was a place to not only move, 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 Music Academy, “Ken Collier was the Frankie Knuckles and Larry Levan of Detroit.”

Now that dance tradition has proliferated mainstream customs, it’s heartening to recognize that there is a new resurgence back to our roots being spearheaded by the queer collective, who ar

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