Posted on Jun 3, 2022
Queer, trans musicians of color launch new festival in Seattle
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A brand new Seattle music fest launches this weekend, to kick off LGBTQ Pride month.
The creators say they didn’t see queer and trans people of color centered in other festivals, so they created their own.
Twinkle lights overhead, and a row of guitars on the wall, band members from SuperCoze huddle together for a practice session. Surf-rock swells through their small room at Crybaby Studios on Capitol Hill.
They’re prepping for their next show: the So Dreamy Music Festival.
The members of SuperCoze are QTBIPOC: queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and people of color. Most have never played a music festival. That’s something their front-person Cody Choi has set out to change.
"I realized not only with my band that is entirely QTBIPOC, but a lot of other people’s bands that I know that are really great, that I look up to even, were not on these festivals or if they were they weren’t ever a headliner,” said Choi, who created the new festival.
The creators say they didn’t see queer and trans people of color centered in other festivals, so they created their own.
Twinkle lights overhead, and a row of guitars on the wall, band members from SuperCoze huddle together for a practice session. Surf-rock swells through their small room at Crybaby Studios on Capitol Hill.
They’re prepping for their next show: the So Dreamy Music Festival.
The members of SuperCoze are QTBIPOC: queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and people of color. Most have never played a music festival. That’s something their front-person Cody Choi has set out to change.
"I realized not only with my band that is entirely QTBIPOC, but a lot of other people’s bands that I know that are really great, that I look up to even, were not on these festivals or if they were they weren’t ever a headliner,” said Choi, who created the new festival.
Queer, trans musicians of color launch new festival in Seattle
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Transgender
Gender
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."LGBTQ people have long carved their own path toward equity, in the face of exclusion and discrimination, creating bars, counseling centers, and celebratory festivals as far back as 1930 in Seattle, when the gay-friendly Casino cafe opened.
But to Choi, the arch of LGBTQ rights is incomplete.
“I’m hoping that from this festival it might spark more inspiration for other people in the community to throw their own events."
Choi said musicians shouldn't "always be relying on bigger venues to be dictating what the scene’s doing, especially led by men who have been in the scene forever."
"I think there’s a lot of gate-keeping towards queer, trans, Black and brown musicians."
So Dreamy will orient directly toward the queer, trans, Black and Brown communities. It’s a 'dream' lineup for bands like SuperCoze, hence the name.
“It’s soooo Dreamy!” the band yells over each other in their practice studio.
The inaugural festival is split between Cafe Racer and Vermillion, and is all ages until 10 p.m. After that, it’s all about queer nightlife culture, including a house-ballroom competition, aka Drag Ball, Saturday night. Kings and Queens from the House of Chaos and House of Noir will run the show, which typically includes dance, pose, vogue, and/or runway competitions."
..."LGBTQ people have long carved their own path toward equity, in the face of exclusion and discrimination, creating bars, counseling centers, and celebratory festivals as far back as 1930 in Seattle, when the gay-friendly Casino cafe opened.
But to Choi, the arch of LGBTQ rights is incomplete.
“I’m hoping that from this festival it might spark more inspiration for other people in the community to throw their own events."
Choi said musicians shouldn't "always be relying on bigger venues to be dictating what the scene’s doing, especially led by men who have been in the scene forever."
"I think there’s a lot of gate-keeping towards queer, trans, Black and brown musicians."
So Dreamy will orient directly toward the queer, trans, Black and Brown communities. It’s a 'dream' lineup for bands like SuperCoze, hence the name.
“It’s soooo Dreamy!” the band yells over each other in their practice studio.
The inaugural festival is split between Cafe Racer and Vermillion, and is all ages until 10 p.m. After that, it’s all about queer nightlife culture, including a house-ballroom competition, aka Drag Ball, Saturday night. Kings and Queens from the House of Chaos and House of Noir will run the show, which typically includes dance, pose, vogue, and/or runway competitions."
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