How Collective Struggle and the Pursuit of Pleasure Keeps Disco Alive

Disco is the people’s music. Since its roots in the early ‘70s, disco been a place of refuge, an escape from everyday persecution and a sanctuary of queerness and creative expression. Like most music genres, disco emerged from hard times, but what separates it entirely is that it was not created by or for mainstream society. The infrastructure of disco was built by the hands of queer and trans Black and Latinx people.