Disco Culture

The loft is a really good metaphor for sort of these values and then planting the seeds that become the perversion of those values over time. Despite these utopian and nostalgic visions of open and egalitarian belonging, systems of exclusion were part of the disco scene from the very beginning. In the form of members only policies, these were initially justified as self protected and legally necessary to keep the cops away. But later turned into a form of elitist social curatorship,. selecting and excluding people based on beauty, celebrity, glamour and social connections.