The Common Press is proud to host the launch of a powerful book that discusses our queer nightlife and spaces. It’s closing time for an alarming number of gay bars in cities around the globe, but it’s not the last dance. Join Professor Amin Ghaziani, author of 'Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked A Revolution,' as he takes you underground into a shimmering scene of queer joy on 20th March from 7 pm - 9 pm.
Amin will be in conversation with Aidan McGarry, author and Professor of International Politics at Loughborough University.
If you are unable to join us in person, sign up for a live-stream ticket of the event below.
A refreshingly hopeful perspective on the changing nature of queer urban nightlife.—Ilana Masad, them
In Long Live Queer Nightlife, Amin Ghaziani takes us to London’s most exciting club nights—in places you least expect—to reveal how queer nightlife thrives even when capitalism crushes the gay bar. This is rigorous, thumping cultural analysis.—Madison Moore, author of Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric
About ‘Long Live Queer Nightlife’ book
Long Live Queer Nightlife published by Princeton University Press is an exhilarating journey into underground parties, pulsating with life and limitless possibility, acclaimed author Amin Ghaziani unveils the unexpected revolution revitalizing urban nightlife.
Far from the gay bar with its largely white, gay male clientele, here is a dazzling scene of secret parties—club nights—wherein culture creatives, many of whom are queer, trans, and racial minorities, reclaim the night in the name of those too long left out. Episodic, nomadic, and radically inclusive, club nights are refashioning queer nightlife in boundlessly imaginative and powerfully defiant ways.
Drawing on Ghaziani’s immersive encounters at underground parties in London and more than one hundred riveting interviews with everyone from bar owners to party producers, revelers to rabble-rousers, Long Live Queer Nightlife showcases a spectacular, if seldom-seen, vision of a queer world shimmering with self-empowerment, inventiveness, and joy.
With fluency and care, Amin Ghaziani brings us the voices and spaces of queer nightlife in the city. This is a book that listens closely, sees clearly, and dances freely. Against a sociology of loss, Ghaziani offers a counsel of joy.—Fran Tonkiss, London School of Economics and Political Science
About Professor Amin Ghaziani
Amin Ghaziani is a professor of sociology and Canada Research Chair in Urban Sexualities at the University of British Columbia. He is the award-winning author of The Dividends of Dissent, Sex Cultures, and There Goes the Gayborhood? (Princeton). His work has been featured widely in international media outlets, including the New Yorker, the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Guardian, USA Today, and British Vogue.
Ghaziani’s book…celebrate[s] a more inclusive space of queerness that actively identifies and accepts difference in all its forms. A wonderfully lively and open-minded intellectual inquiry.
—Kirkus Reviews
About Aidan McGarry (Host)
Aidan McGarry is a Professor of International Politics at Loughborough University, London. He is the author of 'Romaphobia: The Last Acceptable Form of Racism' (Zed) and the forthcoming book 'Political Voice: Protest, Democracy and Marginalized Groups' (Oxford University Press).
- Doors open at 7 pm
- Bring your booze (hot drinks and soft drinks available from the bookshop)
- Discussion, Readings, Signings, and Q & A from 7:30 pm - 9 pm
The event will be taking place downstairs, which is sadly not wheelchair accessible.