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Friday, June 11, 2010

Homo Gay Pride Kick-Off Boat Party

Posted by Dan Savage on Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 4:10 PM

The Stranger and Trouble Dicso are—wait for it—proud to present a Pre-Pride Boat Party with DJ Kim Ann Foxman of the band Hercules and Love Affair. The party is on The Islander, a large and lovely party boat that boards down in Eastlake. (Map here.) Boat opens at 9:30 and leaves at 10 for a 3 hour booze-y, dance-y, pride-y cruise. The Trouble Dicso guys will also be DJing (full disclosure: one of the Trouble Dicso guys—the gay one—is my baby daddy) and local dance troupe Dream Weavers will perform something appropriately pride-y. I will also be on board to help kick off pride and—hopefully—summer.

Tickets are $15 and they're available at www.thestranger.com/boatparty.

Our music writers like Kim Ann Foxman...

"Her DJ crates contain classic house, disco, freestyle, 'Precious Little Diamond' by Fox the Fox—pretty much exactly what you'd expect from a Hercules muse andeasily up to the heroic labor of moving a Sunday-night dance floor."

...and Trouble Dicso:

"Trouble Dicso is a night of top-notch dance music (in this case, primarily nu and classic disco) curated by devoted experts"

Tickets here.

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This is, like, the second time the phrase "lesbian DJ Kim Ann Foxman" has appeared on here. Is there something limiting or gifted about her being a "lesbian DJ", as opposed to her being just a DJ?

It reminds me a lot of when someone getting up there says "lady driver" as opposed to "driver".

Posted by Telsa on June 11, 2010 at 4:15 PM

Also: Why is there never an effort to identify the sexuality of other DJs?

Is the Stranger sexist?

Posted by Jeff on June 11, 2010 at 4:21 PM

"lesbian dj" simply means she's a girl in comfortable shoes.

Posted by Lovely Linda on June 11, 2010 at 4:29 PM

I thought "lesbian DJ Kim Ann Foxman" was Terry's stage name.

Posted by gloomy gus on June 11, 2010 at 4:29 PM

@2: What Jeff said, except I'd come up with a cumbersome neologism and say gayboycentric. I guess because we're all reminded that Pride really is all about the boys and the gurls among the boys.

Posted by Telsa on June 11, 2010 at 7:08 PM