Disco's Revenge: Documentary Traces Disco's Roots in Gay Underground Resistance and Liberation
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A documentary review of 'Disco's Revenge' (2024, dir. Omar Majeed & Peter Mishara), a 100-minute film that traces disco music's origins in the gay underground clubs of 1970s New York following the civil rights movement and Stonewall riots. The film celebrates disco as a movement of resistance, diversity, self-expression, and liberation, before examining its commercialization and the backlash of the 'Disco Sucks' hate campaign.
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Born in the gay underground clubs of 1970s New York in the wake of the civil rights movement and the Stonewall riots, disco was much more than just music from the start.
Disco was a movement. A movement that fought for diversity, self-expression and joy – until it was commercialized and became the subject of the infamous hate campaign 'Disco Sucks'
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