Many people may be aware of the Stonewall Riots and how they impacted the Gay Rights liberation movement. This subject runs so deep with so much unbelievable history that I could write a thesis about it – however in my effort to share this information, I simply cannot condense it all into this article and I urge everyone reading to do their own research too: let me get down to the basics, in which I hope can build a foundation of truth and understand even if it is brief. Throughout the years I have realised the true extent to which we have to dig to find the truth in history and culture. With that being said, today I would like share yet another historical misconception and false understanding – by examining the huge role in which the LGBTQ community, specifically the intersectionality of queerness and race: essentially built the foundation of clubbing culture and electronic music scenes as we know them – and how these communities were pushed underground as the cultural experiences in which they built became the mainstream norm: and with the societal norm being heterosexuality and whiteness, the true roots of these communities warped into alienation, in which suddenly spaces that were created by LGBTQ communities and people of colour have found themselves discarded and forgotten.Īs a queer womxn myself, I found it quite shocking that I myself wasn’t aware of a good portion of the information in which I stumbled across and that left me quite shaken: the same way in which I didn’t know about the innovative womxn who changed electronic music. The true roots in which huge cultural changes and the ways in which we know them today came to be: have been distorted in discrimination, in which the mainstream population know little next to nothing about the real history behind the media we consume, and the cultural scenes and experiences we partake in – that we love. Today, I revisit this phrase which I found to be both incredibly immersive, informative and yet – I found myself tearing up, because I feel as though each day I am constantly learning new information which should be mainstream knowledge – yet it isn’t, and these incredible pioneers in music history have been almost – purposefully, lost. In the article, I mentioned the well known phrase: history is written by the victors – and by that I meant, not just in war – but in culture. Not long ago, I wrote an article about womxn in history who shaped the ways in which we create, explore and understand electronic music today: and how their names have been erased, their contributions glanced over and the ways in which their work built the foundation for electronic music had stolen by our mainstream knowledge of music history in the face of sexism and patriarchy.