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Don't get me wrong i have nothing aginst gay people personalities(i have gay friends at uni), there nice people and im sure they know how to party. But i just think dance/electronic music could not of just come from one scence such as the gay scene.
Personally i see homosexuality as unnatural and i wouldnt like to sleep with another man. Therefore despite gay peoples love of electronic music I dont think PTB should be promoted at a gay night because it means straight people are put off from going such as toomuch'stash.
Why cant it be promoted at a straight night where straights do not have to watch "Boy University Student Body Dancers", why not have a mix of sexualities at this launch party?
I agree dance and electronic music (as we know it today) could not have come out of just one particular scene. People have always danced, and not all clubs were/are gay clubs. But I think once upon a time, when the "scene" was still largely underground, gay people who were ostracized from hetero-dominated society naturally gravitated toward the underground. It gave them a sense of who they were, and thus it became a part of their culture (I would like to read Last Night A DJ Saved My Life - will get to it one day) But on that same token, I think electronic music has never discriminated - it's always been a mix of different scenes, with different crowds, different influences - that's why dance/electronic music has been subcategorized in to several different subgenres, to the point of oblivion over the years.
I would hope you don't view your gay friends at uni as being unnatural, simply because being attracted to men would be an unnatural persuasion to you. I think what you said here would be hurtful to them. But being straight, I understand that me being sexually attracted to women (sorry boys) is just not my thing. Not because I find homosexuality unnatural, but because, simply, I am attracted to men. So I see the gist of what you're saying, and I don't think you mean any ill will.
For the record, and I feel I can speak for toomuch'stash, he's not put off by the release party being held at a gay club. Not really. We've been to plenty of clubs where the straight-to-gay ratio left us outnumbered. Gay people don't scare us, or put us off. What's put stash off is the *possible* upcoming spectacle that involves greasy, hairless men in speedos and leather biker hats grinding against each other to the tune of Marvo Ging. It's something he doesn't want to see and frankly, neither do I. That goes for chicks on chicks, and hetero spectacles bumping and grinding to anything that is Push the Button. You know, I think the music should speak for itself without paid dancers - let the people on the floor be the judges and bust their own moves.