The queens, they've seen it all before, and they can be a little jaded. They just revolve around cock, and the music isn't so much better. Some of the exclusively gay parties really can get a little stale. THUMP: Your parties are more like discos-that-are-queer rather than definitively gay or queer discos.ĭJ Harvey: For me, the best parties are mixed parties. They were prideful, but not officially Pride-related.Īs the official Pride Week revs into its final weekend, we spoke to Harvey from his home in Venice about love, sex, disco, and what it's like to craft your own identity, sexually or otherwise, in these crazy times of ours. Both were queer as fuck, but not rigidly prescribed as such. Two weekends ago, a doubleheader of Harvey's own warehouse rager at Lot 613 in LA's Arts District and a Rumors party with Guy Gerber on the virginal pavement of Gin Ling Way in Chinatown exemplified this perspective. In his adopted home of Los Angeles, Harvey-who identifies as 'queer, but not homosexual'-has been leading a charge alongside the likes of pansexual party palace A Club Called Rhonda for a newfangled queerness that does not discriminate according to particularities of orientation, subculture, fetish, or perversion, but favors weirdos of all ilks celebrating life together on one dancefloor.