This Album Is My Saving Grace Rn ☁️☁️☁️

Re: Last night

Not funded by Gilead Sciences

Funded by Blonded, independently

Let’s just get that out of the way.

Club culture around late 70s and 80s nightlife in NYC was a special, much talked about and written about thing. From the star studded midtown clubs like studio 54 and the first danceteria to the downtown clubs like Mudd + paradise garage. The figures, the music, the looks, the lack of regulation haha. I recognize NY wasn’t all lasers and disco lighting and that simultaneously, there was a lot of crime and poverty and that a huge part of club culture, the gay community, at that time were being wiped out by HIV + AIDS. Now in 2019, there’s a pill you can take every day that will at a better than 90% chance prevent you from contracting HIV. This pill was approved by the FDA in 2012. The pricing strategy behind it is malicious in my opinion and so it’s public perception is marred and rightfully so. But the fact remains that despite price being a very real barrier to this potentially life saving drug for some, the other very real barrier is awareness. I decided to name, what was otherwise going to be a night of lights and music inspired by an era of clubbing that I loved PrEP+ because while designing the club which is inside of an old glass factory basement in Queens (shoutout to The Basement that runs a very awesome techno night on Fridays after us) I started to imagine in an era where so many lives were lost and so much promise was lost forever along with them, what would it have been like if something, anything had existed that in all probability would’ve saved thousands and thousands of lives. I’m an artist, it’s core to my job to imagine realities that don’t necessarily exist and it’s a joy to. A couple days before we threw the party, I was discussing this subject with my team and one of the architects I work with thought that PrEP as a drug had reached ‘100% saturation’ so far as awareness. I thought he was dead wrong so I asked a friend (who I won’t name haha) if he knew what PrEP was and his response was ‘isn’t that some type of viagra or something’. My ex who I was with for several years didn’t know about it when we first met at a gay club in LA. Awareness isn’t always what we’d hope it would be. But anyway, I’m ranting. I’m happy that folks are talking about the subject in the first place. Thank you to everyone who came out and danced with us last night. Y’all were beautiful and the energy was right! Thank you Bouffant Bouffant, Sango, Justice and Sherelle for your sets last night they were soo good man. Oh one more thing, I saw someone say that this was a PR stunt etc etc, pshhh bitch pls come get a drink next time and I’ll put several barstools out so you can have as many seats as you need. All my love everybody really. Stay safe.

I want to know what God knows, and I will be with Him (teeth eater)

I love this

i miss the band already

Our last midnight before Midnights… 🌌

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I'm not breaking any new ground if I point out that Sasaki's and Miyano's attitudes toward BL are symbolic representations of their queerness, right?

Miyano is super embarrassed about liking BL and even though pretty much everyone around him knows he's a fudanshi, he can't bear to take his manga out of the bags in public. He has so much trouble accepting his feelings for Sasaki because he's deep in the closet, and this makes him suspicious of the latter's motivation: Sasaki is as cavalier about reading BL as he is about liking Miyano, but this levity causes Miyano to constantly fear that if he allowed himself to reciprocate the attraction, Sasaki would disavow their mutual feelings with the same ease with which he accepted them, and in fact it takes Miyano seeing that Sasaki is also cultivating their shared interest on his own and being somewhat "serious" about it to truly believe that the golden retriever is really quite invested, even as he lets Miyano set the pace.

I don't know, I think it was an incredibly clever way to touch upon gay shame (scholars will fight over whether it is allegory or metonymy) without making it painfulpy explicit, retaining a layer of subtlety (to an extent) and turning it into its own source of comedy.