When you talk about disco, you can’t ignore LGBTQ+ communities, because civil rights have been the key for attracting social dances into the field of leftist policies. In effect, according to many political parties of the left wing, left culture is the only one that deserve to exist, and everything popular should be reconducted to leftist values, or abandoned for being wrong. Well, non-traditional ways of expressing sexuality have been seen as a powerful weapon against conservative ideas, and against the socio-economic role of traditional families, based on heterosexuality. Moreover, the protection of LGBTQ+ communities, against moral stigmas and social discrimination, is considered as a core activity of leftist parties, because strictly bound to the topics of sustaining minorities, and of giving impulse to equalitarianism. A notable example of that is New York’s ballroom culture, originated from peculiar dancehalls in late 70’s, where LBGT+ black and Latino were welcomed, in order to offer them an ideal house. New York’s ballroom culture has exerted a valuable social role, and more precisely: queer music has always been very interesting; at ballrooms there has been a capillary information for preventing HIV-AIDS; finally, voguing, an expressive kind of proud dancing proper of queer individuals, has had an undeniable influence in the fields of music, fashion, and language.
I beg the pardon of intellectuals, because I need to be brutally simple, and I’m forced to abandon any subtle distinction, proper of psychological sciences. For that, let me define queer as those who only search for “strange love”, intended as any kind of sexual relationship different from mere heterosexuality. Usually, among queer individuals are not counted typical gays, and typical lesbians. For instance, into the slang of queer New-Yorkers, a “ha” is a woman who prefers gay men. As you might have understood, the focus of the page is queer behavior, a mental openness to strange love. Of course, I omit anything about gay marriage, because stable, affective homosexuality tends to adopt the same behaviors of traditional couples.
I’ve observed that strange love can be present among various animal species, although it chiefly looks like an amusement, rather brief. I also remember that the common definition of love exceeds sexuality, because includes sociality, economic aspects, friendship, and sharing of values. In effect, the essential feature of love is a tendential stability. If I don’t go wrong, queer behaviors are characterized by hormonal attraction, and by intense, irrational passion. The consequent conclusion is that strange love is not true love, but a kind of uncommon infatuation. A final comment: sexuality is a minor part of lifetime, belonging to the sphere of privacy, whose political exploitation inevitably causes a big overvaluation, problems to mental equilibrium, more interpersonal conflicts, a loss of social solidarity, and a notable increase of frustration among individuals; I would like to see much more freedom, tolerance, and privacy for individuals, and much more inter-classism on a social level. Coming to music, although I’m a boring heterosexual, I can appreciate the artistic value of gay disco, and of queer music. Naturally, the mix of the page is a collection of classics of queer music, proper of New York’s ballroom culture.
File name is “music gets out of NYC ballrooms, by Max Look DJ (Jan 2026)”, 1 hour 21’ and 15” of classics of queer music, and an essential part of from New York’s ballroom culture.
The queer playlist:
MUNA - I know a place
Stephanie Mills - never knew love like this before
Malcolm McLaren with Willie Ninja - deep in Vogue
Janelle Monae - make me feel
Beyoncé - break my soul
Madonna - Vogue (12” remix)
MFSB - love is the message (John Morales remix)
Ezra Furman - body was made
Ellis D Presents Boom Boom - work this pussy (Hurt Me mix)
Cheryl Lynn - got to be real (John Morales remix)
Kiddy Smile - let a bitch know
Masters at Work - the ha dance (Pumpin’ Dubb)
George Kranz- din daa daa (US remix 1983)
Junior Vasquez - x
Fast Eddie - let’s go (don’t u want some more)
