Engaging with the contexts and histories of the AIDS epidemic, the ongoing COVID pandemic, and bathhouses as sites of queer encounter and healing, “Digital Sanctuaries: Design Your Dream Genderqueer Spa,” is an online party, hosted by Queer Spa Network on its GatherTown virtual spa platform.
GatherTown is an online social space in which people can get together, prototype their own virtual environments, and have conversations with other participants in the same room or close by, similar to an in-person event.
This party will include three facilitated spaces: A conversation circle about the history of bathhouses, queer encounter, and queer community care; a room for prototyping visions for future queer spaces of community healing; and a virtual dance party room in Queer Spa Network’s fungeon!
The space will include original house music by MythicLuna and a sound piece by Umi Hsu.
This program was part of One Institute’s 2024 Circa Queer Histories Festival
