Best way to ensure that happens is to have everyone stop dancing. Seriously, you ever see a dance floor just *stop* and boo a DJ? I have. It’s as glorious as you’re picturing.
Lol, I'm glad this is the strategy cause I do this way too often. If it's good I'm absolutely dancing, if it sucks I just stand there and sip my beer. I feel like this is a problem at most bars. I'm tired of "Get Low" and "Party in the USA" unless this is a throwback party.
If you find a club playing Cowboy Carter and Brat make a PSA 🗣️ my husband loves music and told me I'd love Brat and he played a couple songs today... The album deserves its praise so much. Hope you find a good place to dance!!
GAG! DJs play Bey and Charli. Not a club but a party in the Triangle. They’ve done events at Legends, The Ritz, The Fruit, Junction West, Yacht Club, and more. gag_raleigh on IG, “GAG Raleigh” on FB
Can we, as a society, please move past 00’s club bangers/crunk. Going out feels like fucking Groundhog Day. Get drunk, listen to 00’s crunk, repeat for years ad naseum. Like please play literally anything else. Slap a 4x4 behind some Beethoven, idgaf I’ll get down to it cause it’s not the SAME GODDAMN SONG I HEAR EVERYTIME IM AT A BAR
Completely agree, every time my little gay self goes to legends I leave after an hour because the musics not hitting (also some techno-ish songs and remix’s go on for like 15 minutes). Ruby deluxe put on an awesome Burlesque show but when we came back at night they didn’t have a DJ which surprised me on their busiest night of the year, there was room to dance but if the song didn’t hit it was just standing for 10 minutes waiting for it to change (with an awkward pause between songs lol). I’ve determined maybe that’s just how gay bars are here and I’m just getting old lol
I swear that the music has been the same at Legends for at least the last decade!! GAG Raleigh is up and coming and I went last night bc they were hosting something at Legends but the music in the main dance area was killing me.
Honestly, we were all saying the same thing about the DJ at GAG last night. Like I’m so sorry, but can we not move on from playing the entire Born This Way album? (Which was released in 2011 y’all) We were expecting more Troye Sivan, Chappell Roan, Brat, even new Dua Lipa with some oldies mixed in.
The queens were great, but like if you want it to be a dance party, play a song with a fucking beat.
Well, the one thing we can say is Joey isn’t posting racist, Zionist memes from the Babylon Bee on his personal Insta story. Really curious how Gag comes out strongly pro-Palestine today but has him playing their event.
Been following him for years. Never seen this type of content. Last time I remember that subject matter being brought up by him he was actually calling out somebody else’s racist BS.
I guess feel free to screenshot & DM me if you see what you’re referring to pop up again, that would definitely be concerning to me.
YES! It kinda sucks that Raleigh doesn't have too many good clubs but The Fruit has got to be one of the best gay clubs in the south. Haven't been to Club Era yet but excited to check it out
I'm not quite sure what makes something a gay club but they have gender neutral bathrooms, host several lgbt events, have several signs up about supporting the lgbt community... etc etc lol so I'd say it is
It’s not, but it’s always been queer-friendly/hosted queer events on occasion. However, just a few weeks ago, the basement of The Fruit became Club Era, and is now a dedicated queer space.
Owner of Club ERA here. The Fruit is not a Gay Club, however, Club ERA which opened June 1 of this year is in the basement of the Fruit building and is a Gay, Queer, Trans nightclub and bar. We are open 7 days a week. Please feel free to visit our website at www.cluberadurham.com
This weekend (Saturday) is our BIG GAY ASS DANCE PARTY for the last Saturday of Pride month. Our rotating DJ’s are all queer people of color, and we will be featuring DJ Wicked and DJ Lex On Loud. Please visit their IG pages. And as we do every weekend at Club ERA, we will be buckin with the beats, twerkin and stompin like we always do in the Bull City. Join in this NEW ERA FOLKS!
Owner of Club ERA here. The Fruit is not a Gay Club, however, Club ERA which opened June 1 of this year is in the basement of the Fruit building and is a Gay, Queer, Trans nightclub and bar. We are open 7 days a week. Please feel free to visit our website at www.cluberadurham.com
This weekend (Saturday) is our BIG GAY ASS DANCE PARTY for the last Saturday of Pride month. Our rotating DJ’s are all queer people of color, and we will be featuring DJ Wicked and DJ Lex On Loud. Please visit their IG pages. And as we do every weekend at Club ERA, we will be buckin with the beats, twerkin and stompin like we always do in the Bull City. Join in this NEW ERA FOLKS!
I went to legends and flex Friday night and avoided the dance floor because of this😂 put my gay ass in the patio, tuned out the music, and just hung out.
\*sigh\*... that playlist attracts a demographic that should remain at Legends.
I hear rumors Zenith became a defacto gay club with better music. I have not indulged. I notice spaces for gay men are not my vibe despite the eye candy.
Try being a lesbian here. It's brutal (despite Ruby and the Wicked Witch). There are SO MANY straight women there that it's ridiculous. Y'all deal with your men and stay away from our spaces. I would be happy to never see another bachelorette party.
That explains the lack of vibe I get with the women at Ruby Deluxe and The Night Rider... I'm just fumbling through as a pan trans femme enby. I'm still figuring out how the sapphic side of things progress.
A gentle reminder they're homomisic, not homophobic. They hate homosexuals (misic), not fear them (phobic). They do fear blunt force to redirect their behaviors.
And that would make many other patrons of Zenith "Good Germans."
As an old(ish) queer chick who last went clubbing during Dubya’s second term, I am excited to look up the music you are talking about and dance to it in the privacy of my home. (Of course I don’t mean Beyoncé — even I know who she is. Love her.)
Or maybe it’s time to get out there and dance!
On the legends website there is a contact form. I’m sure people could respectfully give feedback there for the venue to see people would like to hear different types of music https://legends-club.com/contact-us/
I think NC in general doesn't know what it wants to be musically, and struggles with the electronic/dance scene a bit.
As a producer in NC, I'd love to see NC actually embrace more electronic and bass music.
I don't care if it's trance, techno, EDM trap, dubstep, hyperpop, drum and bass, UKG, chiptune, etc. Theres so much variety out there to pull from.
I'm straight, but I recognize exciting music movements when they happen because I keep my ear open to all genres and scenes.
SOPHIE. Charli XCX. AG Cook. Kim Petras. Easyfun. Romy. Moore Kismet. Porter Robinson.
I understand the frustration but hard disagree. I'm straight and almost 50 and man it would be so fun to play any of the three you listed. A lot of folks stick with what works. In music everything changes though.
Do clubs play Madonna anymore? Holiday always gets me on the dancefloor, but I am pretty basic and delulu for Madonna -does that make me cheugy? I saw her live in December and she was awesome!
I do not hear Madonna played nearly enough for how iconic she is and how well her music still holds up on the dance floor! But yeah def hear M now & then around town. Check out @b_color_full_productions on IG, they play her at their parties!
I am glad to hear you appreciate her! Her 90s music - from Erotica and Ray of Light - was way ahead of its time and you are right, still holds up! Thanks for the suggestion!
i wanted to go to the brat party on saturday but the line was SO LONG. it wrapped around the entire parking garage nearby!! I ended up just bailing. I’ll have my own brat party haha
Paying all that money to get in to hear trash music. Someone should bring a speaker and party outside of Legends.
I will say at the Beyonce event his playlist was LITTY.. That’s the only time he played consistently good music. Id pay to go to another event like that over a pride event with trash music ANYDAY!!!!
Go to Club Era in Durham! It’s in the basement of The Fruit. Much better music and vibes than Legends and Gag. They just opened June 1st. Saturday nights are crazy there, especially after 11.
You’re saying “DJs” but it’s literally the same DJ on the dance floor every single Friday & Saturday night. I have been complaining about it for yeeeeaaarrrs. I think sometimes he even plays the exact same set from weekend to weekend.
Oh, baby queers. I’m sorry you didn’t hear the new stuff or whatever but as an elderqueer i need you to understand that Joey gave us so much music we desperately needed in the 90s and early 2000s, not only that he was the one that gave us the first and only drag shows back in the day. AND he gave us weird-queers the first and only goth night in the county.
So talk all the shit you want, but yall need to put some respect on your early generation community. And downvote me all you want but i love this guy and he gave so many of us so much in the beginning. Go to ruby if you just gotta have the babyqueer TikTok tunes.
I love yall but i love us that survived the pain and drama that we only found peace from the classic diva house Joey gave us back then.
That was 20-30 years ago and while I’m sure it was meaningful at the time, people aren’t beholden to honoring the past in place of current culture. Being so dismissive calling it TikTok music reinforces that you don’t care about the current generation as you idolize your own.
Trust me i love my baby gays…. I’ve worked at hiv prevention nonprofits tirelessly (& so many of us as well! Lmk if you need info on volunteer opportunities!!) because we grew up in the time where yall didn’t lose friends and family to AIDS, like we did - we grew up in a time where legends (& Joey) was the only sanctuary for us. When i hear the younglings diss the tragedy we endured by just throwing out complaints like “diva house sucks” it breaks my heart. I hope you guys know most of the queens you support and love are my age (40+) and most of the queens we lost 20-30 years ago we lost because we didn’t have prep or even azt… please don’t disrespect your elders, we fought our asses off to thunderpuss and Armand van helden so you can be free to thrive! And I’m so gaddam glad you can; it’s why we fought as hard as we did. Please watch the documentary “How to Survive a Plague” - please!!!!
I love you, babe. You are all my children. OUR children. I truly hope you aren’t hurt by what i said, i just have such dedication to legends/joey for a reason. So many of us do. I’m sorry you didn’t get to experience the party you expected- but i just hope you all know this part of the night was for us. Joey is for us. We fought like hell for it. 🫶
I was going to Legends back in the 90s and early 2000s, and even then we'd laugh at how boring the music was there. It's like whoever was DJing, even then, had no idea about the great stuff being played at that time in underground clubs and warehouse parties. Or, worse, knew about it and chose not to play any of it. You'd hear something good every once in a while, but mostly it was embarrassingly ordinary music that anyone who'd ever been to a good party could tell was tired. (Edit: sorry, that last part came out too snippy; it wasn't aimed at you, Karlaanne. We'd just hear so much better music at clubs and parties in other towns; Legends had a rep for bad music even back then.)
They don't care. Their experience is that queer spaces have always existed, the infrastructure has always been there from their perspective.
Legends has multiple long-term employees including certain drag queens and Dick behind the bar. Like Coti Collins (rest in peace) was doing the same Reba performances and songs for decades. And we gave her respect no matter what.
The fact that Legends has existed for decades is really very extraordinary for a night club. I am with you, I can't jump on this DJ Joey hate-train, especially since the djs at Wicked Witch (jumping to the goth/gay side of things) with one exception are *terrible*.
I go to The Fruit and Zenith now. But I respect that Legends respects their people.
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Best way to ensure that happens is to have everyone stop dancing. Seriously, you ever see a dance floor just *stop* and boo a DJ? I have. It’s as glorious as you’re picturing.
We used to joke that the dj would play a bad song or two so people would get off the dance floor to buy drinks at the bar
Thats not a joke. Thats a strategy. Source: former bar owner.
Lol, I'm glad this is the strategy cause I do this way too often. If it's good I'm absolutely dancing, if it sucks I just stand there and sip my beer. I feel like this is a problem at most bars. I'm tired of "Get Low" and "Party in the USA" unless this is a throwback party.
The dancing was at Ruby Deluxe.
Some friends and I are going there next weekend! We walked by on the way to the Wicked Witch and it looked fun.
I think it was Goth night last weekend at WW, which is usually very fun and very danceable if you like EBM/Industrial 💞
Not it wasn’t :) (from my xp) Legends is more accepting in my circle
I *need* a club that will play brat 😭
all my little heart wanted was the girl, so confusing version with lorde😭
pleaseeeeee a brat themed night is most neccessary
If you find a club playing Cowboy Carter and Brat make a PSA 🗣️ my husband loves music and told me I'd love Brat and he played a couple songs today... The album deserves its praise so much. Hope you find a good place to dance!!
GAG! DJs play Bey and Charli. Not a club but a party in the Triangle. They’ve done events at Legends, The Ritz, The Fruit, Junction West, Yacht Club, and more. gag_raleigh on IG, “GAG Raleigh” on FB
i’ve literally been begging for this since the am um dropped, if anyone can find one lmk.
LuxePosh played Brat all throughout her set, it’s all over the Legends Instagram story.
The Glitz inside Legends had a brat play through Saturday night around 1am! It was LIT 🔥
I'm following 🥹
You mean you don't wanna hear "Get Low" by 'Lil John?
Can we, as a society, please move past 00’s club bangers/crunk. Going out feels like fucking Groundhog Day. Get drunk, listen to 00’s crunk, repeat for years ad naseum. Like please play literally anything else. Slap a 4x4 behind some Beethoven, idgaf I’ll get down to it cause it’s not the SAME GODDAMN SONG I HEAR EVERYTIME IM AT A BAR
People who stop listening to new music when they turn 22 is an epidemic. edit that sentence makes no sense but you get it
Woah are you not gonna include THE inventor of gay pop themselves??!! Miss Jojo Siwa??!!!
It’s a new genre! 😂
😂
*Mariah_Carey_Idontknowher.gif*
You know how there’s K-Pop?
I would get lit for “Karma” before so much of the shit that I hear at the club.
Completely agree, every time my little gay self goes to legends I leave after an hour because the musics not hitting (also some techno-ish songs and remix’s go on for like 15 minutes). Ruby deluxe put on an awesome Burlesque show but when we came back at night they didn’t have a DJ which surprised me on their busiest night of the year, there was room to dance but if the song didn’t hit it was just standing for 10 minutes waiting for it to change (with an awkward pause between songs lol). I’ve determined maybe that’s just how gay bars are here and I’m just getting old lol
I swear that the music has been the same at Legends for at least the last decade!! GAG Raleigh is up and coming and I went last night bc they were hosting something at Legends but the music in the main dance area was killing me.
I would do anything to hear the rave music we had between 1997 and 2004
I still have my Best of 97 CD I got from DJ Joey at Legends that year.
same and Im only 27 lol
Honestly, we were all saying the same thing about the DJ at GAG last night. Like I’m so sorry, but can we not move on from playing the entire Born This Way album? (Which was released in 2011 y’all) We were expecting more Troye Sivan, Chappell Roan, Brat, even new Dua Lipa with some oldies mixed in. The queens were great, but like if you want it to be a dance party, play a song with a fucking beat.
Definitely heard Brat at Gag!
yeah the dj at legends fucking sucks the only reason I don’t go that often 😭 please we need a new one
They’ve kept the same one for over a decade. Probably because as ridiculous as the management is, nobody else wants the gig.
Is it legit always the same one? / person?
AFAIK it’s still Joey.
We are begging for a new DJ
Well, the one thing we can say is Joey isn’t posting racist, Zionist memes from the Babylon Bee on his personal Insta story. Really curious how Gag comes out strongly pro-Palestine today but has him playing their event.
What’s the t here?
Keep an eye on the story of the DJ from Saturday who follows the Babylon Bee. He reposts many racist, anti-Palestinian things to his story.
Been following him for years. Never seen this type of content. Last time I remember that subject matter being brought up by him he was actually calling out somebody else’s racist BS. I guess feel free to screenshot & DM me if you see what you’re referring to pop up again, that would definitely be concerning to me.
Club Era in Durham says hello. Y'all should stop by there sometime
YES! It kinda sucks that Raleigh doesn't have too many good clubs but The Fruit has got to be one of the best gay clubs in the south. Haven't been to Club Era yet but excited to check it out
Wait the fruit is a gay club?! Just thought it was a club! The fruit is so much fun! You guys and gals rock, would love to party more with ya
This is how it starts!! 🤣🤣🤣 Careful or you'll stop goin ta cherch and start hanging out with the cool kids!
I'm not quite sure what makes something a gay club but they have gender neutral bathrooms, host several lgbt events, have several signs up about supporting the lgbt community... etc etc lol so I'd say it is
It’s not, but it’s always been queer-friendly/hosted queer events on occasion. However, just a few weeks ago, the basement of The Fruit became Club Era, and is now a dedicated queer space.
I’ve always viewed the nightlife scene as, Raleigh: college kids and 20 something preppy’s. Durham: hipsters and gays.
Owner of Club ERA here. The Fruit is not a Gay Club, however, Club ERA which opened June 1 of this year is in the basement of the Fruit building and is a Gay, Queer, Trans nightclub and bar. We are open 7 days a week. Please feel free to visit our website at www.cluberadurham.com This weekend (Saturday) is our BIG GAY ASS DANCE PARTY for the last Saturday of Pride month. Our rotating DJ’s are all queer people of color, and we will be featuring DJ Wicked and DJ Lex On Loud. Please visit their IG pages. And as we do every weekend at Club ERA, we will be buckin with the beats, twerkin and stompin like we always do in the Bull City. Join in this NEW ERA FOLKS!
The Fruit and Club Era really impressed me on Friday night, reminded me of NYC
Owner of Club ERA here. The Fruit is not a Gay Club, however, Club ERA which opened June 1 of this year is in the basement of the Fruit building and is a Gay, Queer, Trans nightclub and bar. We are open 7 days a week. Please feel free to visit our website at www.cluberadurham.com This weekend (Saturday) is our BIG GAY ASS DANCE PARTY for the last Saturday of Pride month. Our rotating DJ’s are all queer people of color, and we will be featuring DJ Wicked and DJ Lex On Loud. Please visit their IG pages. And as we do every weekend at Club ERA, we will be buckin with the beats, twerkin and stompin like we always do in the Bull City. Join in this NEW ERA FOLKS!
Seconding this!!
i love how this is the most common complaint i hear about legends, if not the only
That's been a constant issue for Legends lol when 30 came out one DJ there played a horrendous Easy On Me remix that no one could've asked for
I went to legends and flex Friday night and avoided the dance floor because of this😂 put my gay ass in the patio, tuned out the music, and just hung out.
Literalyyyyyy. We went to Legends to dance and instead just gabbed on the patio.
The music was so bad 😭 I was like maybe they’ll switch out the DJ?
Green Monkey has been playing brat! Was there on Saturday & they even played some songs from Tove Lo‘s new album
Green Monkey needs to stay open past 9:00, esp during Pride.
\*sigh\*... that playlist attracts a demographic that should remain at Legends. I hear rumors Zenith became a defacto gay club with better music. I have not indulged. I notice spaces for gay men are not my vibe despite the eye candy.
Try being a lesbian here. It's brutal (despite Ruby and the Wicked Witch). There are SO MANY straight women there that it's ridiculous. Y'all deal with your men and stay away from our spaces. I would be happy to never see another bachelorette party.
All the lesbians are in Durham
It's true. Arcana, Pinhook, and Velvet Hippo, among other places
I love singing "Sour Times" and "Home" at the Pinhook... I need to wander out to Arcana and Velvet Hippo and ERA.
Sister I promise you that most men at Legends don’t want the bachelorette parties either.
Oh wow, who knew there were more of us here. I just figured you guys were figments of my imagination
That explains the lack of vibe I get with the women at Ruby Deluxe and The Night Rider... I'm just fumbling through as a pan trans femme enby. I'm still figuring out how the sapphic side of things progress.
🤩
More like defacto no! The “allies” there need some serious training to stick up to the community from homophobic patrons.
A gentle reminder they're homomisic, not homophobic. They hate homosexuals (misic), not fear them (phobic). They do fear blunt force to redirect their behaviors. And that would make many other patrons of Zenith "Good Germans."
The Sabrina Carpenter erasure...
Joey hasn't been a good DJ in 10-15 years.
She needs to retire
I’m glad someone said it. I’m here to support it.
As an old(ish) queer chick who last went clubbing during Dubya’s second term, I am excited to look up the music you are talking about and dance to it in the privacy of my home. (Of course I don’t mean Beyoncé — even I know who she is. Love her.) Or maybe it’s time to get out there and dance!
eeeEe✨ specifically the girl, so confusing remix with lord and Kevin Aviance’s Cunty
On the legends website there is a contact form. I’m sure people could respectfully give feedback there for the venue to see people would like to hear different types of music https://legends-club.com/contact-us/
I think NC in general doesn't know what it wants to be musically, and struggles with the electronic/dance scene a bit. As a producer in NC, I'd love to see NC actually embrace more electronic and bass music. I don't care if it's trance, techno, EDM trap, dubstep, hyperpop, drum and bass, UKG, chiptune, etc. Theres so much variety out there to pull from. I'm straight, but I recognize exciting music movements when they happen because I keep my ear open to all genres and scenes. SOPHIE. Charli XCX. AG Cook. Kim Petras. Easyfun. Romy. Moore Kismet. Porter Robinson.
I thought we were going to be talking about Burns and Horne.
The DJ at legends is STRAIGHT thats why
I understand the frustration but hard disagree. I'm straight and almost 50 and man it would be so fun to play any of the three you listed. A lot of folks stick with what works. In music everything changes though.
You can disagree all you want his reputation is known for playing garbage music. Why they still keep him around? No fucking clue.
Simply meant orientation wasn’t the issue. Wasn’t disagreeing to what they were putting out.
Not Cowboy Carter 😂
He’s also rude af 👎
🤣🤣
I wish I knew how to dj 🥲 I know what SONGS to play and your list is exactly where I'd start haha
“Can you play a song with a fucking beat?”
Do clubs play Madonna anymore? Holiday always gets me on the dancefloor, but I am pretty basic and delulu for Madonna -does that make me cheugy? I saw her live in December and she was awesome!
I do not hear Madonna played nearly enough for how iconic she is and how well her music still holds up on the dance floor! But yeah def hear M now & then around town. Check out @b_color_full_productions on IG, they play her at their parties!
I am glad to hear you appreciate her! Her 90s music - from Erotica and Ray of Light - was way ahead of its time and you are right, still holds up! Thanks for the suggestion!
They should have brought DJ Wicked over there!!
I’ll get right on this.
i wanted to go to the brat party on saturday but the line was SO LONG. it wrapped around the entire parking garage nearby!! I ended up just bailing. I’ll have my own brat party haha
Wait where was the brat party?! How did I miss this?
A KEVIN AVIANCE MENTION?!?! THE LORDT LIVES!!!! Now I'm feeeeeeeling like a Lily!
Amen! Also, love your username.
I tried to dj there but per usual I don’t get a shot
Legends has been known for horrible music. I don’t think they’ve changed their, “DJ” in 20~ years.
I love how many posts there have been lately talking about how wack the music is at legends. someone please show them.
Did they play that horrible mash up between Clarity (Zedd) and Party Rock Album
Paying all that money to get in to hear trash music. Someone should bring a speaker and party outside of Legends. I will say at the Beyonce event his playlist was LITTY.. That’s the only time he played consistently good music. Id pay to go to another event like that over a pride event with trash music ANYDAY!!!!
Go to Club Era in Durham! It’s in the basement of The Fruit. Much better music and vibes than Legends and Gag. They just opened June 1st. Saturday nights are crazy there, especially after 11.
Is there any way to host your own night? Show them people want those songs too.
*"Alexa, play Padlock (Larry Levan Mix) by Gwen Guthrie."*
personally i dont need to hear chapel roanne but i agree about charli
YES this
It’s not a gay club anymore at all….
You’re saying “DJs” but it’s literally the same DJ on the dance floor every single Friday & Saturday night. I have been complaining about it for yeeeeaaarrrs. I think sometimes he even plays the exact same set from weekend to weekend.
And kim petris of course!!!!
Too bad Ruby is owned by a queer baiting manipulative clown. 🤡
Oh, baby queers. I’m sorry you didn’t hear the new stuff or whatever but as an elderqueer i need you to understand that Joey gave us so much music we desperately needed in the 90s and early 2000s, not only that he was the one that gave us the first and only drag shows back in the day. AND he gave us weird-queers the first and only goth night in the county. So talk all the shit you want, but yall need to put some respect on your early generation community. And downvote me all you want but i love this guy and he gave so many of us so much in the beginning. Go to ruby if you just gotta have the babyqueer TikTok tunes. I love yall but i love us that survived the pain and drama that we only found peace from the classic diva house Joey gave us back then.
That was 20-30 years ago and while I’m sure it was meaningful at the time, people aren’t beholden to honoring the past in place of current culture. Being so dismissive calling it TikTok music reinforces that you don’t care about the current generation as you idolize your own.
Trust me i love my baby gays…. I’ve worked at hiv prevention nonprofits tirelessly (& so many of us as well! Lmk if you need info on volunteer opportunities!!) because we grew up in the time where yall didn’t lose friends and family to AIDS, like we did - we grew up in a time where legends (& Joey) was the only sanctuary for us. When i hear the younglings diss the tragedy we endured by just throwing out complaints like “diva house sucks” it breaks my heart. I hope you guys know most of the queens you support and love are my age (40+) and most of the queens we lost 20-30 years ago we lost because we didn’t have prep or even azt… please don’t disrespect your elders, we fought our asses off to thunderpuss and Armand van helden so you can be free to thrive! And I’m so gaddam glad you can; it’s why we fought as hard as we did. Please watch the documentary “How to Survive a Plague” - please!!!! I love you, babe. You are all my children. OUR children. I truly hope you aren’t hurt by what i said, i just have such dedication to legends/joey for a reason. So many of us do. I’m sorry you didn’t get to experience the party you expected- but i just hope you all know this part of the night was for us. Joey is for us. We fought like hell for it. 🫶
I was going to Legends back in the 90s and early 2000s, and even then we'd laugh at how boring the music was there. It's like whoever was DJing, even then, had no idea about the great stuff being played at that time in underground clubs and warehouse parties. Or, worse, knew about it and chose not to play any of it. You'd hear something good every once in a while, but mostly it was embarrassingly ordinary music that anyone who'd ever been to a good party could tell was tired. (Edit: sorry, that last part came out too snippy; it wasn't aimed at you, Karlaanne. We'd just hear so much better music at clubs and parties in other towns; Legends had a rep for bad music even back then.)
They don't care. Their experience is that queer spaces have always existed, the infrastructure has always been there from their perspective. Legends has multiple long-term employees including certain drag queens and Dick behind the bar. Like Coti Collins (rest in peace) was doing the same Reba performances and songs for decades. And we gave her respect no matter what. The fact that Legends has existed for decades is really very extraordinary for a night club. I am with you, I can't jump on this DJ Joey hate-train, especially since the djs at Wicked Witch (jumping to the goth/gay side of things) with one exception are *terrible*. I go to The Fruit and Zenith now. But I respect that Legends respects their people.
I love this, and I’m upvoting you, but unfortunately if I don’t like the set I don’t like the set. And for the record I love classic diva house.
What a condensing comment to the younger generation all wrapped up in cute words. Brava
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You can start DJing if you want!