“I was hoping for a good turnout,” Rios said. Photo by Olivia Wolfįrom the start, the place was packed with people sitting close on the couches and winding their waists on the dance floor through the fog. The few places she found - certain nights at La Cueva in Little Village, or a weekly event for Black and Brown lesbians called Dollhouse - served as her North Star when she eventually started throwing events of her own.Įden is closely associated with reggaetón music, but DJs at the Southwest Side sapphic night play everything from house to neoperreo to dancehall. But there weren’t many venues that played the music she liked to listen to and also attracted people she wanted to meet. When she was in her late teens, Rios came out as bisexual and started going to queer parties around the city. It was a way for me to connect to who I am and to maintain a sense of pride.” “It’s also very culturally significant to me, as someone that didn’t grow up in Puerto Rico but did grow up very culturally Puerto Rican. “You really feel it in your body,” Rios said of the genre. It was an older cousin, a DJ who went by DJ Chiquito and passed out mix CDs at clubs, who first introduced her to reggaetón. Growing up in Hermosa, Rios remembers hanging out with her cousins in her living room, sitting around a boombox. She’s a mover and a shaker,’ said partygoer Kendra Jamaica of the event’s founder, Alessandra Rios, pictured here DJing at Eden last year.
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