Club
Inside the fast and furious world of London’s oldest Scalextric Club
Buzz & whir — First opening in 1977 in north London, members meet every Tuesday to race carefully customised and handcrafted slot cars around a 34-metre plastic track. Ryan Loftus attempts to take them on.
Written by: Ryan Loftus
Malaysia’s oldest drag club is an oasis for its queer community. Can it survive?
Blue Boy Club — Having been open since the ’80s, the Kuala Lumpur institution has provided a space for the city’s LGBTQ+ folk to express themselves and connect. But faced with ramping conservatism and police raids, its outlook appears increasingly murky.
Written by: Gordon Cole-Schmidt
The party putting accessibility and politics centre stage
From streaming DJ sets in their kitchen during lockdown to the stage at Wembley arena Queer House Party have taken the world by storm whilst always staying true to who they are.
Written by: Ben Smoke
Inside the secret club night bringing the party to Pakistan
Meet the party pioneers making space for diverse dance floors in a city with no record shops, night clubs or club culture.
Written by: Daniel Dylan Wray
The UK's largest queer rave is defiant in the face of hate
Homobloc returns — Digital creator Aaron James, who appears in a new video released to mark the return of Homobloc, recalls a traumatic homophobic attack that reaffirmed to him the importance of queer solidarity and community.
Written by: Ben Smoke
Inside Manchester’s new wave of radical club nights
Vision over profit — From funeral reenactments to mariachi bands: events like The White Hotel and Fat Out want to introduce more challenging, political and philosophical ways of partying.
Written by: Luke Charnley
Arlene Gottfried’s scenes of New York nightlife
After dark — In the new exhibition, Arlene Gottfried: After Dark, the artists takes us into the nightclubs, strip joints, dive bars, and drug dens of the ’70s.
Written by: Miss Rosen
Documenting LGBTQ hedonism in ’80s Czechoslovakia
Illicit nights — Photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková spent years capturing Prague’s underground party scene in the early 1980s, exposing a new perspective on life behind the iron curtain.
Written by: Geralda Cela
The fight to save Krakow’s DIY club community
‘People want us to survive’ — The scene is an important part of Poland’s musical heritage: a close-knit underground community that has been blossoming since the fall of the Berlin Wall. So why is it now under so much threat?
Written by: Emma Finamore
A visual history of America’s travelling rave scene
New age nostalgia — From 1990 to 1995, Tree Carr roamed the country documenting her psychedelic adventures on a disposable camera.
Written by: Laura Havlin
The cult club that transformed New York’s art world
From 1978 to 1983 — A new MOMA exhibition looks back on the legacy of Club 57 – a no-budget East Village venue that ripped up the rule book and changed the face of modern art.
Written by: Miss Rosen
An intimate look at after hours queer Manhattan
An endless past — Photographer Richard Renaldi captures the magic of daybreak and hedonistic abandon on the streets of New York as clubs close for the night.
Written by: Paden Vaughan
