Party promoters, club collectives, and community organisers making queer nightlife happen.
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basement ny
New York City
BASEMENT is a techno club beneath Knockdown Center in Maspeth, Queens, open since 2019, with a second room called Studio. It is a home for New York's queer techno parties, from WRECKED to takeovers by Herrensauna and Mala Junta, and tickets are often limited to one per person.
Bear Night
San Diego
Bearracuda
San Francisco
Bearracuda is a touring gay dance party that began in San Francisco, bringing bears and their admirers together in cities across the United States and beyond. DJs, performers and a celebration of different bodies shape its nights. The emphasis is on dancing, socialising and meeting friends, with respectful partygoers welcome.
Bears In Space
Los Angeles
Honcho
Pittsburgh
Honcho is a Pittsburgh queer party known for long, multi-room nights that run from sunset to sunrise, with main rooms, dark rooms and outdoor openings. Its Campout weekends are the centrepiece, and it now brings the same long-form approach to New York takeovers, with house and techno as the backbone.
Hump Events
Los Angeles
HUMP Events produces themed dance parties across Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego, combining house music with playful ways to dress up, or down. Its programme includes STEAM towel parties and elaborate Halloween editions, with DJs, distinctive dress themes and a flirty atmosphere. Clothing requirements vary by event.
Masterbeat
Los Angeles
Masterbeat produces circuit parties in Los Angeles, anchored by its annual New Year's Eve celebration. Themed events through the year, such as Service Station, keep the same big-room formula: circuit and house DJs, production and a packed, shirts-off dancefloor.
MERGE
New York City
MERGE is a Brooklyn techno party running since 2021, known for deep, hypnotic sets and ambitious bookings such as an all-night-long from Rrose. Beyond its regular nights it stages Halloween editions and multi-day weekenders, including a collaboration with Minnesota's The Great Beyond festival at Nowadays.
MÜLL
San Francisco
Rhonda INTL
Los Angeles
Rhonda INTL is a Los Angeles party organiser whose programme stretches from sprawling club takeovers to rooftop dancing in other cities. House, disco and broader electronic sounds run through its bookings, with local and international DJs sharing the bill. Events range from afternoon gatherings to late-night parties with several rooms to explore.
ROAR Events
Seattle
ROAR Events produces queer dance experiences in Seattle and across North America, from open-air boat parties to club nights. Its programme includes YACHT CLUB, with house-driven daytime dancing, and QTS, a queer trance series led by Farius. Choose between outdoor socials and club sessions built around euphoric electronic music.
Sapphic Collective
Denver
Sapphic Collective throws parties in Denver that centre sapphics, queers and trans people. Its calendar includes Gays & Ghouls, an annual Halloween party with The Sapphic Social Club spread over three floors, and warehouse nights of techno and house such as The Freaks.
So.Gay
New York City
The Carry Nation
New York City
The Carry Nation is the New York DJ duo of Nita Aviance and Will Automagic, whose parties bring decades of queer dancefloor history to long sets of house and disco. Nights such as They Went On Forever run late at Brooklyn venues including 314 Scholes.
TrophyDad
San Francisco
TrophyDad produces parties that put daddies centre stage, led by PRIME, launched in San Francisco in 2016 with one rule: every go-go dancer is over 50. Around eight events a year include PRIME's Folsom weekend party across both floors of Club Six, the SAILOR party and a Palm Springs Pride edition.