Noisey has to get respect for covering the most up to date and controversial news within the Music scene. The Latest Documentary form Vices’s Music Blog delves into a scene not covered much by press or spoken much about in public, the Gay Dancehall scene in London. Being Gay in Jamaica is something the people just wont accept and is often met with the young men being outcasted and subject to horrendous physical abuse, this has lead to an influx of homosexual Jamaican men fleeing the Carribean island for the more accommodating shores of the UK. Once settled in our capital City the Gay Jamaican men did what jamaicans did best they formed a community and began throwing parties. The Parties were of course underground and most commonly found in the same hostels that these men sought refuge in.
Dancehall Music is notoriously Homophobic, but the patriots ‘don’t care about all that’ instead they embrace the music and incorporate it into their new found Gay Dancehall culture, the Parties have grown in size attracting not just Jamaicans but British gay partygoers as well taking over church halls in Brixton and the Old Kent Rd, South London. It hasn’t taken long for club promoters to jump on the bandwagon however and now what was strictly underground has been merged into clublife with residences in nightclubs in Vauxhall, joining long-standing nights like Caribana and Bootylicious. Check out the Documentary below to get the full story.
