Honey Dijon – DJ​-​Kicks: Honey Dijon (Resident Advisor)

By |2024-10-18T17:52:33-05:00October 18th, 2024|Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, DJ, Honey Dijon, House, House Music, International, LGBTQIA+, Music, Music News, Resident Advisor, Review, Trans|

  The legendary house DJ crafts an expertly balanced dance floor odyssey. Honey Dijon started her career nearly 25 years ago in her hometown of Chicago. From house music's inception, she lived and breathed the genre—and took any DJ gig she could get (even going so far as saying she would DJ out of a [...]

LGBTQ+ clubbing history podcast, Memories From The Dancefloor, returns for second season (DJ Mag)

By |2024-06-09T14:33:44-05:00June 9th, 2024|Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, Disco, DJ, DJ Mag, Gay, House, House Music, LGBTQIA+, Trans, UK|

The run of four podcast celebrates Welsh LGBTQ+ venues Memories From The Dancefloor, a podcast that explores and LGBTQ+ clubbing scenes and history, is returning for a second season. The relaunch of the podcast this month coincides with this year's Pride Month, and the second run features four episodes. Over the course of this latest [...]

On Cue: Cormac and Queer Dance Music History (DJ Mag)

By |2024-06-05T21:41:15-05:00June 5th, 2024|Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, DJ Mag, Gay, LGBTQIA+, Trans|

  With his new podcast, Queerly Beloved, Northern Irish DJ Cormac explores what it means to be a queer artist in dance music today. Interviewing contemporary figures about their histories of queer discovery, the Panorama Bar and fabric regular continues an intergenerational conversation surrounding the life-affirming moments, communal  experiences and enduring challenges of LGBTQ+ expression. Alongside [...]

In Uganda, queer electronic music artists face the impact of a global anti-LGBTQ backlash (DJ MAG)

By |2023-11-15T22:02:48-06:00November 15th, 2023|Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, DJ Mag, electronic music, Gay, International, LGBTQIA+, news, Report, Trans|

    Uganda passed a draconian anti-LGBTQ law in March, sending the county’s queer community into turmoil and marking another brutal step in the homophobic and transphobic backlash sweeping the globe. Marke Bieschke speaks to some of the musicians affected about the new realities they face, how their art has changed, and what we [...]

EX.685 Honey Dijon (Resident Advisor – RA Exchange)

By |2023-11-04T17:45:06-05:00November 4th, 2023|African American, Announcements, Chicago, Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, Honey Dijon, House Music, Interviews, LGBTQIA+, Music News, producer, Resident Advisor, Trans, Women|

  "I don't complain, I create." The house DJ talks about her new multi-platform project, Honeyverse, and using music as a way to celebrate the Black queer community.   Honey Dijon is a queer house music icon whose reputation precedes her. Originally hailing from Chicago, she grew up going to raves in the 1970s, eventually [...]

BLACK OBSIDIAN SOUNDSYSTEM TO HOST FREE DJ AND PRODUCTION SESSIONS (MIXMAG)

By |2023-06-24T12:35:30-05:00June 24th, 2023|African American, Announcements, Dance Music, DJ, Gay, International, LGBTQIA+, London, MixMAg, Music News, news, producer, Trans, UK|

The sessions will take place at FOLD and give priority to Black and Queer musical creatives. London-based Black and queer/trans led collective, Black Obsidian Soundsystem, have announced that they will be providing gratuitous DJ and production sessions at FOLD in Canning Town, London. The workshops are part of an effort to contribute to an “ecosystem that stretches beyond nepotism”, [...]

AMSTERDAM IS TESTING A “NIGHTLIFE SAFE SPACE” FOR THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY (MIXMAG)

By |2023-01-24T19:17:16-06:00January 23rd, 2023|Amsterdam, Announcements, Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, Entertaiment, Gay, International, LGBTQIA+, MixMAg, news, Trans|

A hair salon is being used as a place for LGBTQ+ members to get ready before a night out in the city WORDS: BECKY BUCKLE | PICTURE: SERGEY ASHMARIN 23 JANUARY 2023 A new scheme is trialling a safe space location for the LGBTQ+ community partying in Amsterdam. The pilot project named Dress & Dance has transformed a hair [...]

It’s Been a Minute: Serving House Music History with Honey Dijon (NPR)

By |2023-01-02T14:27:29-06:00January 2nd, 2023|African American, Biography, Chicago, Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, DJ, Gay, Honey Dijon, International, Interviews, LGBTQIA+, NPR, producer, Trans, Women|

December 30, 202210:47 AM ET BRITTANY LUSE BARTON GIRDWOOD COREY ANTONIO ROSE JESSICA PLACZEK VERALYN WILLIAMS 2022 was a banner year for Honey Dijon. She co-produced two of the fiercest tracks on Beyoncé's latest record, Renaissance, and she released her own studio album this fall, called Black Girl Magic. But Honey – one of the only Black [...]

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