Amin Ghaziani appears at the store to celebrate the release of Long Live Queer Nightlife. Gay bars are closing around the world, but in this joy-centered book, Ghaziani argues that the future of nightlife is alive and well. Local author Professor Kemi Adeyemi joins Amin in onstage conversation.

In Long Live Queer Nightlife, an exhilarating journey into underground parties, pulsating with life and limitless possibility, acclaimed author Amin Ghaziani unveils the unexpected revolution revitalizing urban nightlife.

Far from the gay bar with its largely white, gay male clientele, here is a dazzling scene of secret parties—club nights—wherein culture creatives, many of whom are queer, trans, and racial minorities, reclaim the night in the name of those too long left out. Episodic, nomadic, and radically inclusive, club nights are refashioning queer nightlife in boundlessly imaginative and powerfully defiant ways.

Drawing on Ghaziani’s immersive encounters at underground parties in London and more than one hundred riveting interviews with everyone from bar owners to party producers, revelers to rabble-rousers, Long Live Queer Nightlife showcases a spectacular, if seldom-seen, vision of a queer world shimmering with self-empowerment, inventiveness, and joy.

Amin Ghaziani is professor of sociology at the University of British Columbia. He is the award-winning author of The Dividends of Dissent, Sex Cultures, and There Goes the Gayborhood?. His work has been featured widely in international media outlets, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Guardian, USA Today, and British Vogue.

Kemi Adeyemi is Associate Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. She is the author of Feels Right: Black Queer Women & the Politics of Partying in Chicago and co-editor of Queer Nightlife. Her forthcoming book, Writing About Black Art, was a 2023 recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writing Grant. Kemi founded and directs The Black Embodiments Studio, an arts writing incubator, public programming initiative, and publishing platform dedicated to building discourse around contemporary black art.