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	<title>Dance Music in LGBT Clubs - Revision history</title>
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		<id>https://lgbthistoryuk.org/index.php?title=Dance_Music_in_LGBT_Clubs&amp;diff=56113&amp;oldid=prev</id>
		<title>LGBT-HP: Remove vague &quot;died recently&quot; death note for Richard B – unverifiable, no date or source; remove until properly cited</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Remove vague &amp;quot;died recently&amp;quot; death note for Richard B – unverifiable, no date or source; remove until properly cited&lt;/p&gt;
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				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l159&quot;&gt;Line 159:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Tony De Vit]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1957–1998) – resident at Trade; one of the defining hard house DJs; died 2 July 1998.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Tony De Vit]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1957–1998) – resident at Trade; one of the defining hard house DJs; died 2 July 1998.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Smokin Jo]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; – prominent female resident at Trade; one of the most recognised DJs on London&amp;#039;s gay circuit in the 1990s.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Smokin Jo]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; – prominent female resident at Trade; one of the most recognised DJs on London&amp;#039;s gay circuit in the 1990s.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*&#039;&#039;&#039;[[Richard B]]&#039;&#039;&#039; – long-serving resident DJ at [[Heaven]] over several decades; one of the most familiar figures at the venue to a generation of clubbers&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;; died recently&lt;/del&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*&#039;&#039;&#039;[[Richard B]]&#039;&#039;&#039; – long-serving resident DJ at [[Heaven]] over several decades; one of the most familiar figures at the venue to a generation of clubbers.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Jeremy Healy]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; – resident at G-A-Y; known for pop-focused sets and high-energy mixing.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Jeremy Healy]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; – resident at G-A-Y; known for pop-focused sets and high-energy mixing.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Ariel]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (Ariel Belloso) – Room Two resident at DTPM/Fabric from 1999 to 2006, approximately four hundred gigs; Argentine-born; reached the UK Singles Chart top forty with &amp;quot;A9&amp;quot; (2000).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;*&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Ariel]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (Ariel Belloso) – Room Two resident at DTPM/Fabric from 1999 to 2006, approximately four hundred gigs; Argentine-born; reached the UK Singles Chart top forty with &amp;quot;A9&amp;quot; (2000).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;

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		<id>https://lgbthistoryuk.org/index.php?title=Dance_Music_in_LGBT_Clubs&amp;diff=56069&amp;oldid=prev</id>
		<title>LGBT-HP: /* Genre glossary */</title>
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		<updated>2026-07-19T23:19:39Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;autocomment&quot;&gt;Genre glossary&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l134&quot;&gt;Line 134:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;:*&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Hardbag&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; – a British term for vocal house with particularly big gospel-diva vocals over harder, driving production. Popular at Love Muscle and lesbian and gay venues through the early-to-mid 1990s.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;:*&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Hardbag&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; – a British term for vocal house with particularly big gospel-diva vocals over harder, driving production. Popular at Love Muscle and lesbian and gay venues through the early-to-mid 1990s.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;;&lt;/del&gt;Acid &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;house&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;:*&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;/ins&gt;Acid &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;House&#039;&#039;&#039; – &lt;/ins&gt;House music incorporating the distinctive squelch and slide of the Roland TB-303 bass synthesiser, repurposed far from its original design. Developed in Chicago from around 1986; became a mass movement in the UK in 1988, with Heaven&#039;s Spectrum at the centre.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;:&lt;/del&gt;House music incorporating the distinctive squelch and slide of the Roland TB-303 bass synthesiser, repurposed far from its original design. Developed in Chicago from around 1986; became a mass movement in the UK in 1988, with Heaven&#039;s Spectrum at the centre.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-added&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;;Ambient house&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;:&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;*&#039;&#039;&#039;Ambiant House&#039;&#039;&#039; – &lt;/ins&gt;Slower, atmospheric house built from synthesiser pads and long melodic passages – designed for chillout rooms rather than dancefloors. Born at Heaven&#039;s Land of Oz; developed by [[The KLF]] and [[The Orb]].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;:Slower, atmospheric house built from synthesiser pads and long melodic passages – designed for chillout rooms rather than dancefloors. Born at Heaven&#039;s Land of Oz; developed by [[The KLF]] and [[The Orb]].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-added&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;;Jungle&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;;Jungle&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;

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		<title>LGBT-HP: /* Love Muscle and vocal house (early 1990s) */</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;autocomment&quot;&gt;Love Muscle and vocal house (early 1990s)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Love Muscle and vocal house (early 1990s)==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Love Muscle and vocal house (early 1990s)==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;While Trade represented the harder end of the spectrum, &#039;&#039;&#039;[[Love Muscle]]&#039;&#039;&#039; at [[The Fridge]] in Brixton (founded by [[Andrew Czezowski]] and [[Susan Carrington]]) built its following on &#039;&#039;&#039;vocal house&#039;&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;&#039;hardbag&#039;&#039;&#039; – house music with strong, often gospel-influenced vocals, more melodic and euphoric than Trade&#039;s sound. Hosted by drag queen [[Yvette]], Love Muscle drew queues around the block on Saturday nights through the 1990s and attracted a celebrity following including Jean Paul Gaultier and Alexander McQueen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;While Trade represented the harder end of the spectrum, &#039;&#039;&#039;[[Love Muscle]]&#039;&#039;&#039; at [[The Fridge]] in Brixton (founded by [[Andrew Czezowski]] and [[Susan Carrington]]) built its following on &#039;&#039;&#039;vocal house&#039;&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;&#039;hardbag&#039;&#039;&#039; – house music with strong, often gospel-influenced vocals, more melodic and euphoric than Trade&#039;s sound. Hosted by drag queen [[Yvette]], Love Muscle drew queues around the block on Saturday nights through the 1990s and attracted a celebrity following including Jean Paul Gaultier and &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[&lt;/ins&gt;Alexander McQueen&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;]]&lt;/ins&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==The Royal Vauxhall Tavern: Duckie, SLAGS, and alternative queer nights==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==The Royal Vauxhall Tavern: Duckie, SLAGS, and alternative queer nights==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;

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		<title>LGBT-HP: /* Queer Nation and polysexual club nights (early 1990s) */</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;autocomment&quot;&gt;Queer Nation and polysexual club nights (early 1990s)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 23:15, 19 July 2026&lt;/td&gt;
				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l65&quot;&gt;Line 65:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Kinky Gerlinky]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; ran monthly at the Empire Ballroom, Leicester Square, from 1989 and became one of the defining mixed queer events of the era – a spectacular, theatrical night in which drag, fashion, and music were inseparable. [[Princess Julia]] served as resident DJ.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Kinky Gerlinky]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; ran monthly at the Empire Ballroom, Leicester Square, from 1989 and became one of the defining mixed queer events of the era – a spectacular, theatrical night in which drag, fashion, and music were inseparable. [[Princess Julia]] served as resident DJ.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;The &lt;/del&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;[[Substation]]&#039;&#039;&#039; was another venue of this period, offering a space for queer clubbing in South London.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;[[Substation]]&#039;&#039;&#039; was another venue of this period, offering a space for queer clubbing in South London.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==DTPM (1993–2007)==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==DTPM (1993–2007)==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;

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		<title>LGBT-HP at 23:15, 19 July 2026</title>
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		<updated>2026-07-19T23:15:19Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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		<title>LGBT-HP at 23:04, 19 July 2026</title>
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		<updated>2026-07-19T23:04:37Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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		<title>LGBT-HP: /* Trade and hard house (1990–2002) */</title>
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		<updated>2026-07-19T22:28:17Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;autocomment&quot;&gt;Trade and hard house (1990–2002)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Trade and hard house (1990–2002)==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Trade and hard house (1990–2002)==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;On 29 October 1990, &#039;&#039;&#039;[[Trade (nightclub)|Trade]]&#039;&#039;&#039; opened at &#039;&#039;&#039;Turnmills&#039;&#039;&#039; on Clerkenwell Road, founded by Laurence Malice. It operated from 3am on Sunday mornings – the first legally licensed after-hours club in London, running until noon. Trade was explicitly gay and built around a harder, darker sound than the euphoric house of Heaven: &#039;&#039;&#039;hard house&#039;&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;&#039;techno&#039;&#039;&#039;, at high volume, in a basement.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;On 29 October 1990, &#039;&#039;&#039;[[Trade (nightclub)|Trade]]&#039;&#039;&#039; opened at &#039;&#039;&#039;Turnmills&#039;&#039;&#039; on Clerkenwell Road, founded by &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[&lt;/ins&gt;Laurence Malice&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;]]&lt;/ins&gt;. It operated from 3am on Sunday mornings – the first legally licensed after-hours club in London, running until noon. Trade was explicitly gay and built around a harder, darker sound than the euphoric house of Heaven: &#039;&#039;&#039;hard house&#039;&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;&#039;techno&#039;&#039;&#039;, at high volume, in a basement.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Resident DJs included &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;/del&gt;Tony De Vit&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039; &lt;/del&gt;(who died in 1998), &#039;&#039;&#039;Tall Paul&#039;&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;&#039;Pete Wardman&#039;&#039;&#039;, and &#039;&#039;&#039;Smokin Jo&#039;&#039;&#039; – one of the most prominent female DJs in London&#039;s gay club scene. International guests included Frankie Knuckles, David Morales, and Danny Tenaglia. Trade refused entry to celebrities who expected special treatment: Cher and Axl Rose were both turned away.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Resident DJs included &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[&lt;/ins&gt;Tony De Vit&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;]] &lt;/ins&gt;(who died in 1998), &#039;&#039;&#039;Tall Paul&#039;&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;&#039;Pete Wardman&#039;&#039;&#039;, and &#039;&#039;&#039;Smokin Jo&#039;&#039;&#039; – one of the most prominent female DJs in London&#039;s gay club scene. International guests included Frankie Knuckles, David Morales, and Danny Tenaglia. Trade refused entry to celebrities who expected special treatment: Cher and Axl Rose were both turned away.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;A Channel 4 documentary about Trade aired in 1998. By that point the club had expanded internationally, with nights in New York, Ibiza, and Los Angeles. Trade&amp;#039;s regular Sunday residency ended in October 2002; its final event at Turnmills took place on 16 March 2008.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;A Channel 4 documentary about Trade aired in 1998. By that point the club had expanded internationally, with nights in New York, Ibiza, and Los Angeles. Trade&amp;#039;s regular Sunday residency ended in October 2002; its final event at Turnmills took place on 16 March 2008.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;

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		<title>LGBT-HP: /* Heaven and Hi-NRG (1979–1987) */</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;autocomment&quot;&gt;Heaven and Hi-NRG (1979–1987)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l17&quot;&gt;Line 17:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Heaven]] opened on 6 December 1979 in the arches beneath Charing Cross station, on the site of an earlier club called Global Village. Founded by Jeremy Norman – who had also established The Embassy – and designed by his partner Derek Frost, it was at the time the largest gay club in Europe, with a 5,000-watt sound system and laser lighting. Richard Branson&amp;#039;s Virgin Group acquired the venue in 1982.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Heaven]] opened on 6 December 1979 in the arches beneath Charing Cross station, on the site of an earlier club called Global Village. Founded by Jeremy Norman – who had also established The Embassy – and designed by his partner Derek Frost, it was at the time the largest gay club in Europe, with a 5,000-watt sound system and laser lighting. Richard Branson&amp;#039;s Virgin Group acquired the venue in 1982.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Heaven&#039;s first and defining resident DJ was &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;/del&gt;Ian Levine&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;/del&gt;, who remained at the club for almost a decade. Levine arrived already steeped in Northern Soul and American disco, and at Heaven he became the primary architect of &#039;&#039;&#039;Hi-NRG&#039;&#039;&#039; – a faster, more electronic, more relentless evolution of disco that became the sound of the early 1980s gay dancefloor worldwide. Where disco had been warm and orchestral, Hi-NRG was synthetic and driven, built for a crowd that wanted to dance without stopping.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Heaven&#039;s first and defining resident DJ was &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[&lt;/ins&gt;Ian Levine&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;]]&lt;/ins&gt;, who remained at the club for almost a decade. Levine arrived already steeped in Northern Soul and American disco, and at Heaven he became the primary architect of &#039;&#039;&#039;Hi-NRG&#039;&#039;&#039; – a faster, more electronic, more relentless evolution of disco that became the sound of the early 1980s gay dancefloor worldwide. Where disco had been warm and orchestral, Hi-NRG was synthetic and driven, built for a crowd that wanted to dance without stopping.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Levine also produced many of the defining Hi-NRG records of the era. Through his Record Shack label, launched in 1983, he released &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Evelyn Thomas&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;High Energy&amp;quot;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; – which sold over seven million copies worldwide – and &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Miquel Brown&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;So Many Men, So Little Time&amp;quot;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, which sold two million. He subsequently founded Nightmare Records in 1986, releasing ninety Hi-NRG singles over three years, and worked with [[Pet Shop Boys]], [[Erasure]], and other artists who drew on the gay club sound for mainstream pop.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Levine also produced many of the defining Hi-NRG records of the era. Through his Record Shack label, launched in 1983, he released &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Evelyn Thomas&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;High Energy&amp;quot;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; – which sold over seven million copies worldwide – and &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Miquel Brown&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;So Many Men, So Little Time&amp;quot;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, which sold two million. He subsequently founded Nightmare Records in 1986, releasing ninety Hi-NRG singles over three years, and worked with [[Pet Shop Boys]], [[Erasure]], and other artists who drew on the gay club sound for mainstream pop.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;

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		<title>LGBT-HP: /* The 1970s: the first gay discos */</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;autocomment&quot;&gt;The 1970s: the first gay discos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l7&quot;&gt;Line 7:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;DJ Tricky Dicky pioneered the &amp;quot;one-nighter&amp;quot; model, taking gay events into straight venues across London. His 1975 event Fangs drew 600 people, demonstrating a demand that the existing venues could not satisfy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;DJ Tricky Dicky pioneered the &amp;quot;one-nighter&amp;quot; model, taking gay events into straight venues across London. His 1975 event Fangs drew 600 people, demonstrating a demand that the existing venues could not satisfy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The breakthrough came in 1976 with &#039;&#039;&#039;[[Bang]]&#039;&#039;&#039;, held at The Sundowner on Charing Cross Road – London&#039;s first gay superclub. With a capacity of over a thousand and experienced DJs including Gary London and Talullah, Bang offered something genuinely new: a large, secure, high-quality gay dancefloor playing contemporary soul and disco. Its timing coincided with the commercial release of the 12-inch single, which gave DJs the extended running times that disco required.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The breakthrough came in 1976 with &#039;&#039;&#039;[[Bang]]&#039;&#039;&#039;, held at &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[&lt;/ins&gt;The Sundowner&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;]] &lt;/ins&gt;on Charing Cross Road – London&#039;s first gay superclub. With a capacity of over a thousand and experienced DJs including &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[&lt;/ins&gt;Gary London&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;]] &lt;/ins&gt;and &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[&lt;/ins&gt;Talullah&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;]]&lt;/ins&gt;, Bang offered something genuinely new: a large, secure, high-quality gay dancefloor playing contemporary soul and disco. Its timing coincided with the commercial release of the 12-inch single, which gave DJs the extended running times that disco required.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Other important venues of the period included &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;/del&gt;El Sombrero&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039; &lt;/del&gt;in Kensington, known for its racially mixed crowd; &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;/del&gt;[[Louise&#039;s]]&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039; &lt;/del&gt;on Poland Street in Soho, a lesbian club celebrated for its Diana Ross–heavy playlist; &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;/del&gt;Scandals&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039; &lt;/del&gt;in Soho, with its lit-up dancefloor; and &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;/del&gt;Copacabana&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039; &lt;/del&gt;in Earls Court, which catered to the clone scene. &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;/del&gt;The Embassy&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039; &lt;/del&gt;on Bond Street opened in 1978 with a state-of-the-art sound system, offering Sunday afternoon tea-dances alongside its evening programme.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Other important venues of the period included &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[&lt;/ins&gt;El Sombrero&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;]] &lt;/ins&gt;in Kensington, known for its racially mixed crowd; [[Louise&#039;s]] on Poland Street in Soho, a lesbian club celebrated for its Diana Ross–heavy playlist; &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[&lt;/ins&gt;Scandals&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;]] &lt;/ins&gt;in Soho, with its lit-up dancefloor; and &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[&lt;/ins&gt;Copacabana&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;]] &lt;/ins&gt;in Earls Court, which catered to the clone scene. &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[&lt;/ins&gt;The Embassy&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;]] &lt;/ins&gt;on Bond Street opened in 1978 with a state-of-the-art sound system, offering Sunday afternoon tea-dances alongside its evening programme.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The music of this era was American: Philadelphia soul, Motown, and the emerging disco of labels such as Salsoul and West End Records. The gay dancefloor was its natural home in London long before disco reached the mainstream.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The music of this era was American: Philadelphia soul, Motown, and the emerging disco of labels such as Salsoul and West End Records. The gay dancefloor was its natural home in London long before disco reached the mainstream.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;

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		<title>LGBT-HP: Created page with &quot;This article traces the history of &#039;&#039;&#039;dance music in LGBT venues&#039;&#039;&#039;, from the first gay discotheques of the 1970s through Hi-NRG, house, acid house, hard house, and the disco revival. London&#039;s gay clubs have repeatedly been at the forefront of new genres, often adopting and developing sounds years before they reached the mainstream.  ==The 1970s: the first gay discos==  Before the mid-1970s, London&#039;s LGBT nightlife was divided between upmarket members&#039; clubs offering cab...&quot;</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Created page with &amp;quot;This article traces the history of &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;dance music in LGBT venues&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, from the first gay discotheques of the 1970s through Hi-NRG, house, acid house, hard house, and the disco revival. London&amp;#039;s gay clubs have repeatedly been at the forefront of new genres, often adopting and developing sounds years before they reached the mainstream.  ==The 1970s: the first gay discos==  Before the mid-1970s, London&amp;#039;s LGBT nightlife was divided between upmarket members&amp;#039; clubs offering cab...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;This article traces the history of &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;dance music in LGBT venues&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, from the first gay discotheques of the 1970s through Hi-NRG, house, acid house, hard house, and the disco revival. London&amp;#039;s gay clubs have repeatedly been at the forefront of new genres, often adopting and developing sounds years before they reached the mainstream.&lt;br /&gt;
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==The 1970s: the first gay discos==&lt;br /&gt;
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Before the mid-1970s, London&amp;#039;s LGBT nightlife was divided between upmarket members&amp;#039; clubs offering cabaret and dinner, and small underground venues with cramped dancefloors. Music in both was secondary to socialising. The first DJs to build a gay audience in London – figures such as Talullah at Shanes in West Hampstead and Chris Lucas at The Catacombs in Earls Court – played soul, funk, and early imported American disco.&lt;br /&gt;
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DJ Tricky Dicky pioneered the &amp;quot;one-nighter&amp;quot; model, taking gay events into straight venues across London. His 1975 event Fangs drew 600 people, demonstrating a demand that the existing venues could not satisfy.&lt;br /&gt;
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The breakthrough came in 1976 with &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Bang]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, held at The Sundowner on Charing Cross Road – London&amp;#039;s first gay superclub. With a capacity of over a thousand and experienced DJs including Gary London and Talullah, Bang offered something genuinely new: a large, secure, high-quality gay dancefloor playing contemporary soul and disco. Its timing coincided with the commercial release of the 12-inch single, which gave DJs the extended running times that disco required.&lt;br /&gt;
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Other important venues of the period included &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;El Sombrero&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; in Kensington, known for its racially mixed crowd; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Louise&amp;#039;s]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; on Poland Street in Soho, a lesbian club celebrated for its Diana Ross–heavy playlist; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Scandals&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; in Soho, with its lit-up dancefloor; and &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Copacabana&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; in Earls Court, which catered to the clone scene. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Embassy&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; on Bond Street opened in 1978 with a state-of-the-art sound system, offering Sunday afternoon tea-dances alongside its evening programme.&lt;br /&gt;
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The music of this era was American: Philadelphia soul, Motown, and the emerging disco of labels such as Salsoul and West End Records. The gay dancefloor was its natural home in London long before disco reached the mainstream.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Heaven and Hi-NRG (1979–1987)==&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Heaven]] opened on 6 December 1979 in the arches beneath Charing Cross station, on the site of an earlier club called Global Village. Founded by Jeremy Norman – who had also established The Embassy – and designed by his partner Derek Frost, it was at the time the largest gay club in Europe, with a 5,000-watt sound system and laser lighting. Richard Branson&amp;#039;s Virgin Group acquired the venue in 1982.&lt;br /&gt;
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Heaven&amp;#039;s first and defining resident DJ was &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Ian Levine&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, who remained at the club for almost a decade. Levine arrived already steeped in Northern Soul and American disco, and at Heaven he became the primary architect of &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Hi-NRG&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; – a faster, more electronic, more relentless evolution of disco that became the sound of the early 1980s gay dancefloor worldwide. Where disco had been warm and orchestral, Hi-NRG was synthetic and driven, built for a crowd that wanted to dance without stopping.&lt;br /&gt;
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Levine also produced many of the defining Hi-NRG records of the era. Through his Record Shack label, launched in 1983, he released &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Evelyn Thomas&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;High Energy&amp;quot;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; – which sold over seven million copies worldwide – and &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Miquel Brown&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;So Many Men, So Little Time&amp;quot;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, which sold two million. He subsequently founded Nightmare Records in 1986, releasing ninety Hi-NRG singles over three years, and worked with [[Pet Shop Boys]], [[Erasure]], and other artists who drew on the gay club sound for mainstream pop.&lt;br /&gt;
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Hi-NRG&amp;#039;s key artists – [[Sylvester]], [[Divine]], [[Dead or Alive]], [[Hazell Dean]], [[Miquel Brown]], [[Bobby O]] – were played at Heaven and at gay venues across London throughout the early to mid 1980s. The genre was specifically and unapologetically gay: its themes, its performers, and its audience.&lt;br /&gt;
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==House arrives (1985–1987)==&lt;br /&gt;
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By the mid-1980s, a new sound was reaching London from Chicago and New York: &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;house music&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, developed at the Warehouse (where Frankie Knuckles was resident) and the Music Box, and refined at the [[Paradise Garage]] in New York under Larry Levan. House was rooted in disco but stripped back further – a four-four kick, synthesised basslines, soulful vocals – and it too was shaped by Black gay culture.&lt;br /&gt;
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In 1985, Heaven launched &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Pyramid&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (Wednesdays), which became one of the first club nights in Britain to play Chicago house music. DJ and promoter &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Fat Tony&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (Tony Marnach) became a key figure in introducing American house to London&amp;#039;s gay scene, and later claimed to have been the first person to bring Frankie Knuckles to London to play. He described house music as &amp;quot;just disco on a budget.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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The transition from Hi-NRG to house was not abrupt – both played at Heaven and other venues simultaneously through 1986 and 1987 – but by 1988 the shift was decisive.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Spectrum and the Second Summer of Love (1988)==&lt;br /&gt;
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The year 1988 transformed British club culture, and [[Heaven]] was at the centre of it. In April 1988, promoter &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Paul Oakenfold&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; launched &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Spectrum&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; on Monday nights – initially as &amp;quot;Theatre of Madness&amp;quot; – bringing &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;acid house&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; to a large gay venue. The night ran until 1990 and drew enormous crowds, becoming one of the most significant club nights of its era. The acid house sound – the Roland TB-303 bassline, compressed four-four rhythms, the influence of [[Ecstasy]] on the experience of dancing – spread rapidly from Heaven and a handful of other venues into the wider culture.&lt;br /&gt;
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Simultaneously, Heaven hosted &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Rage&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (Thursdays, from October 1988), promoted by Kevin Millins and featuring DJs &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Fabio&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Grooverider&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, and &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Colin Faver&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. Rage became an incubator for the harder, faster, more complex sound that would become &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;jungle&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; and eventually &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;drum and bass&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; – again, developing inside a gay venue before it became a broader movement.&lt;br /&gt;
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Heaven also hosted &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Land of Oz&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, a night produced by Oakenfold in which [[The Orb]]&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Alex Paterson&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Jimmy Cauty&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (later of [[The KLF]]) served as ambient DJs in a chillout room called The White Room. Heaven has been credited as the birthplace of &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;ambient house&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;: The KLF gave their first live performance there in July 1989.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Trade and hard house (1990–2002)==&lt;br /&gt;
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On 29 October 1990, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Trade (nightclub)|Trade]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; opened at &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Turnmills&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; on Clerkenwell Road, founded by Laurence Malice. It operated from 3am on Sunday mornings – the first legally licensed after-hours club in London, running until noon. Trade was explicitly gay and built around a harder, darker sound than the euphoric house of Heaven: &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;hard house&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;techno&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, at high volume, in a basement.&lt;br /&gt;
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Resident DJs included &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Tony De Vit&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (who died in 1998), &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Tall Paul&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Pete Wardman&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, and &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Smokin Jo&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; – one of the most prominent female DJs in London&amp;#039;s gay club scene. International guests included Frankie Knuckles, David Morales, and Danny Tenaglia. Trade refused entry to celebrities who expected special treatment: Cher and Axl Rose were both turned away.&lt;br /&gt;
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A Channel 4 documentary about Trade aired in 1998. By that point the club had expanded internationally, with nights in New York, Ibiza, and Los Angeles. Trade&amp;#039;s regular Sunday residency ended in October 2002; its final event at Turnmills took place on 16 March 2008.&lt;br /&gt;
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==G-A-Y and pop (1993–)==&lt;br /&gt;
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Not all gay club music in London was underground. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;G-A-Y&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, founded by Jeremy Joseph, launched in 1993 at the Astoria on Charing Cross Road and built its identity around pop – chart music, campness, and a deliberately inclusive mainstream appeal. Its resident DJ &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Jeremy Healy&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; became one of the best-known DJs on the UK circuit. G-A-Y hosted live performances by major pop artists and served a different but equally significant function: making the gay night out accessible to people who weren&amp;#039;t interested in underground sounds.&lt;br /&gt;
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G-A-Y relocated to [[Heaven]] in 2008 and continues to operate there. G-A-Y Bar on Old Compton Street closed permanently in October 2025.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Love Muscle and vocal house (early 1990s)==&lt;br /&gt;
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While Trade represented the harder end of the spectrum, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Love Muscle]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; at [[The Fridge]] in Brixton (founded by Andrew Czezowski and Susan Carrington) built its following on &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;vocal house&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;hardbag&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; – house music with strong, often gospel-influenced vocals, more melodic and euphoric than Trade&amp;#039;s sound. Hosted by drag queen [[Yvette]], Love Muscle drew queues around the block on Saturday nights through the 1990s and attracted a celebrity following including Jean Paul Gaultier and Alexander McQueen.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Horse Meat Disco and the disco revival (2004–)==&lt;br /&gt;
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By the early 2000s, London&amp;#039;s gay club scene had fragmented: hard house and techno at Trade and its successors in Vauxhall; pop at G-A-Y; circuit parties; and a general drift away from the dancefloor as the defining gay social experience.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Horse Meat Disco]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; launched on New Year&amp;#039;s Day 2004 at Dukes pub (later renamed The Eagle) in Vauxhall – the same neighbourhood that had become the centre of London&amp;#039;s gay nightlife. Founded by DJs &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;James Hillard&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Jim Stanton&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Luke Howard&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, and &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Severino Panzetta&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, the night set out to reclaim disco at a time when it had largely disappeared from gay venues. As Hillard put it: &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;d go to most gay clubs in London and it was all hard house or basic funky house.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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Horse Meat Disco&amp;#039;s sets blended Philadelphia soul, Italo disco, Hi-NRG, 1990s house, and cosmic sounds – a deliberate conversation between the genres that London&amp;#039;s gay venues had successively adopted over the decades. It became one of the most celebrated gay club nights in the world, expanding to New York and Berlin while maintaining its Sunday residency at the Eagle.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Key DJs==&lt;br /&gt;
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*&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Ian Levine&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; – resident at [[Heaven]] 1979–1989; pioneer of Hi-NRG; produced &amp;quot;High Energy&amp;quot; (Evelyn Thomas) and &amp;quot;So Many Men, So Little Time&amp;quot; (Miquel Brown).&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Fat Tony&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (Tony Marnach) – key figure in introducing American house to London&amp;#039;s gay scene in the mid-1980s; long residency at the Wag Club; credited with bringing Frankie Knuckles to London.&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Paul Oakenfold&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; – launched Spectrum at [[Heaven]] in April 1988, the night widely credited with bringing acid house to a mass London audience.&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Fabio&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Grooverider&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; – residents at Rage at Heaven (1988–1993); central figures in the development of jungle and drum and bass.&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Tony De Vit&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (1957–1998) – resident at Trade; one of the defining hard house DJs; died 2 July 1998.&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Smokin Jo&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; – prominent female resident at Trade; one of the most recognised DJs on London&amp;#039;s gay circuit in the 1990s.&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Jeremy Healy&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; – resident at G-A-Y; known for pop-focused sets and high-energy mixing.&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;James Hillard&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Jim Stanton&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Luke Howard&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Severino Panzetta&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; – the four founding DJs of [[Horse Meat Disco]]; credited with the revival of disco in London&amp;#039;s gay clubs from 2004 onwards.&lt;br /&gt;
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==See also==&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[Heaven (nightclub)]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Trade (nightclub)]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[The Fridge]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Love Muscle]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Horse Meat Disco]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Timeline of UK LGBT Music]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Timeline of UK Drag]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Timeline of London Bars and Clubs]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Music history]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Dance music]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:LGBT culture]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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