POWERHOUSE: Horse Meat Disco, In Brooklyn By Way of Berlin

You’d think it’d be done before, but Horse Meat Disco has cultivated its own unique community of late-night hedonism, set to gays’ favorite disco tunes.

  • Photography: Lukas Chmiel
  • Top row, left to right: Gage Kearns, JT Almon, Amber Valentine, Matt Romano, Mike Swells, Matt Ford, Phillip Evelyn II, Terence Edgerson, Hue Hallums, Jack Sutter, Pedro Morais, TJ Samson, Lukas Stolberg, Evan Catlett, Tova Feinberg Bottom row, left to right: Nirco Castillo, Scott Hadley, Thomas Redmond, Stephanie Almache, Margarita Serrano, Honeychild Coleman, Josh Wood, Paloma Perez, Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakoff, Paul West, Eric De La Cruz, Miguel Grisanti; Photography Lukas Chmiel

This story first appeared in V119, our Music Issue. V119 is available for sale now at vmagazine.myshopify.com.

Vibe: We took our cues from ’70s NYC spots like The Loft and The Gallery, adding a Berlin- and London-centric disco attitude. It’s not rocket science: playing disco for gays, but it tapped into a yearning for something not offered at the time.

Typical guest: More than a physical type, Horse Meat Disco attracts people who love music, dancing, New York, a mix of high and low, disco, men with beards… and people who love to stay up late.

Past party foul: Two years ago our plumbing system failed during Gay Pride, our biggest night of the year. We opened the roof deck and used a lot of incense. That’s about as awry as it gets.

Save the date: June 28 during World Pride at Knockdown Center. It will be our most
epic HMD yet!

IG: @horse_meat_disco

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