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It's closing time for an alarming number of gay bars in cities around the globe - but it's definitely not the last dance. In this exhilarating journey into underground parties, pulsating with life and limitless possibility, acclaimed author Amin Ghaziani unveils the unexpected revolution revitalising 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.

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"""An accessible, absorbing look into an evolving form of queer culture, written by a brilliant sociologist. "" * Library Journal, starred review * ""Thoughtful and well researched, Ghaziani’s book looks beyond the binaries and prejudices within LGBTQ+ communities to celebrate 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 *"

"""An accessible, absorbing look into an evolving form of queer culture, written by a brilliant sociologist. "" * Library Journal, starred review * ""[A] refreshingly hopeful perspective on the changing nature of queer urban nightlife.""---Ilana Masad, them ""Thoughtful and well researched, Ghaziani’s book looks beyond the binaries and prejudices within LGBTQ+ communities to celebrate 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 * ""Ghaziani provides an immersive view of [club nights], profiling partygoers and event planners and participating in the club nights himself. It’s an invigorating and upbeat view of queer life."" * Publishers Weekly *"

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Amin Ghaziani is 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.

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