#loren granic

[notyourdaddy]

I've known these boys as long as I've known Los Angeles. They were barely legal when we all landed in the same building in downtown LA. 11 years later they're throwing the largest pansexual disco party in the US and taking it overseas. These are the masterminds behind A Club Called Rhonda 💙💜

[boundtothewater-blog]

"We're currently experiencing a total mainstreaming of dance music in America," he says. "Many of these newcomers are straight/white kids who are very far removed from the LGBT community, despite fist-pumping by the millions to a music that was born from gay people of color sweating their asses off at 5 AM in a Chicago warehouse. It's easy for us to dismiss this as a corruption of the music we hold so dear by charlatans and assholes, but many of the newcomers will be drawn into the music for life, and I think it's important that we highlight the role that the gay community played and that we educate new fans of dance music to the ideals of community, equality and diversity that were so crucial to dance music's DNA from the beginning."

Loren Granic, from an RA piece by Luis Manuel-Garcia - "An alternate history of sexuality in club culture", which is a really great read

[omgregory]

Loren & I at the standard

[notyourdaddy]

Loren. Echo Park. 2006

It's raining today...so I'm digging through the vaults. It's all about the b-sides today...