Explore How Gay Culture Created Dance Music

ICON is proud to support the LGBTQ community during Pride Month 2020! To honor that support, we listed articles that show how the LGBTQ community contributed to artistic culture.

LGBTQ Pride Month Parade

Celebrating Pride Month 2020

ICON’s commitment to inclusivity and acceptance extends across all races, religions, gender identities, and sexual orientations. We are proud to show our support of the LGBTQ community during Pride Month 2020!

The LGBTQ community has indelibly contributed to artistic culture, even more so to the culture of dance music, a genre many ICON alumni have helped shape since we opened our doors in 2005. The articles below provide further insight and education into those contributions along with our perspective to honor those contributions.

Pride Month Resources

Electronic Dance Music: Edm Is the Global LGBT Soundtrack

Dance Pride: The Gay Origins of Dance Music

Dance Music Owes Everything to the LGBTQ Community of Color

Reclaiming the Queer Dance Floor

Gay Black Men Helped Create EDM. Why Do Straight White Men Dominate It?

The Queer History of House Music



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