I’m at Knockdown Center among a swarm of millennial dreamers. LCD Soundsystem is playing their familiar blend of synth euphoria and warbly voiced exhaustion, and the dance floor is opening up in oscillating circles to allow for certain movers to spin. I’m tired, but I’m searching for my second wind. After a few hours of…
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KHSS Is a New Kind of K-pop Group
Since PAPER was last at BIAS, the party bringing K-pop to the club, it had just traveled the world and came home to Brooklyn for its biggest rager yet in the Main Hall at Elsewhere. One year later, it’s celebrating its second anniversary and doing a full takeover of the entire club. It’s also birthed…
KHSS Is a New Kind of K-pop Group
Since PAPER was last at BIAS, the party bringing K-pop to the club, it had just traveled the world and came home to Brooklyn for its biggest rager yet in the Main Hall at Elsewhere. One year later, it’s celebrating its second anniversary and doing a full takeover of the entire club. It’s also birthed…
‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 17 Queens Keep the Spirit Alive
The new year has come, but the holiday spirit is still alive for the queens of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 17. After all, drag can be anything, no matter when or where. To celebrate the latest season of the competition show, the current cast of queens stormed the Virgin Hotel’s holiday-themed pop up in December…
‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 17 Queens Keep the Spirit Alive
The new year has come, but the holiday spirit is still alive for the queens of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 17. After all, drag can be anything, no matter when or where. To celebrate the latest season of the competition show, the current cast of queens stormed the Virgin Hotel’s holiday-themed pop up in December…
New Year, New York (According to Linux)
This is What You Missed Last Month (According To Linux), in which nightlife it-girl Linux takes us behind the velvet rope and into the VIP section of Scene-City. Through her extreme (sometimes exaggerated) lens, Linux gives us the tea on what really happened at every party-of-the-century that floods our Instagram feeds. (A note from the…
New Year, New York (According to Linux)
This is What You Missed Last Month (According To Linux), in which nightlife it-girl Linux takes us behind the velvet rope and into the VIP section of Scene-City. Through her extreme (sometimes exaggerated) lens, Linux gives us the tea on what really happened at every party-of-the-century that floods our Instagram feeds. (A note from the…
Susanne Bartsch Is Still On Top
This is PAPER 1984: a celebration of the year we were born, edited by Mickey Boardman, in honor of our 40th anniversary. This series looks back on the important cultural forces at work in 1984, many of which are still reverberating today. The club, music, food, fashion and gay scenes all produced future legends that…
Susanne Bartsch Is Still On Top
This is PAPER 1984: a celebration of the year we were born, edited by Mickey Boardman, in honor of our 40th anniversary. This series looks back on the important cultural forces at work in 1984, many of which are still reverberating today. The club, music, food, fashion and gay scenes all produced future legends that…
Sleigh Con Made the Yuletide Queer
On December 20th, 2024, Chlomosexual took SantaCon and made it more sleigh by hosting a queer-centered holiday rave with a DJ set by Season 10 RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Aquaria. The event had an avant garde photo booth experience by Devin Kasparian, red goodies from queer cannabis-brand FLAMER, and influencer Miss Daddi dressed as Santa….