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The antics of Team Gina are among five days of more than 70 acts during MondoHomo.
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MONDOHOMO LINEUP
www.mondohomo.com
WEDNESDAY JUNE 27
Mondo Art Opening, 7 p.m.
My Sisters’ Room
1271 Glenwood Ave.
Mondo Blastoff, 9 p.m.
The Earl, $10
488 Flat Shoals Road
Team Gina, KIN, One Hand Loves the Other, Akil, Natalie llium, DJ Va Jay Jay
Mary’s, $5
1287 Glenwood Ave.
Paul Mercer, Fagatrons, team heat wave, Johnny Mae, Akil, DJ Hawg-Tied, MC 5-hr Boner.
THURSDAY JUNE 28
Speak Your Mondo, 7 p.m.
Tower II Lounge, $10
735 Ralph McGill Blvd.
PhoeniX YZ, Ami Mattison, Amber Dawn, Bad Kat, DJ Vick of Traxx, Lot Six, Dr. Madelyn Hatter, Theresa Davis, Beki Buchanan, Adriana, Stacie Boschma, Corey Houlihan, Sam Martin, Dustin Brookshire, Karen G, kathleen delaney
Mondo Moxie Cabaret, 9 p.m.
Lenny’s Bar
307 Memorial Drive
Cakalak Thunder drum corp, Ms. Cherry Galette, Leroi the Girl Boi, Karissa the Pole Dancer, Destiny Brooks, Alice D, Diego Wolf, Penasco Theatre Collective, Bois 2 Men, Chica Boom, Dixie Pistols, Good N’ Plenty, Al Schlong, Pilou Miller, Heywood Wakefield, DJ Fearless
FRIDAY JUNE 29
MondoElectro, 9 p.m.
Drunken Unicorn, $10
736 Ponce de Leon Ave.
Nicky Click, Small Framed Boy, Jeremy Gloff, Johnny Rocket, Dino Felipé’s Finess + Runway, Can Can
MondoHop, 11 p.m.
MJQ, $10
736 Ponce de Leon Ave.
HomoRevolution Crew: Tori Fixx, Deadlee, Feloni, Bigg Nugg, FoxxJazell, JFP, Shorty Roc, DJ of the Da Doo-Dirty Podcast, Jason Jupiter + Tom Tom, Yvonne Monet, Haute Couture.
SATURDAY JUNE 30
Mondo Cirqus, 4 p.m.
Lenny's Bar, Free
Queer Art & Crafts Fair, Team Gina, All-Girl Skateboarding Demo by Skate Like a Girl and Woody’s Half-Pipe GirlCrew, interactive Jell-O Trampoline installation by Lindsey Frandsen, Giddy-up Helicopter.
Lenny’s Bar, 8 p.m., $10
Katastrophe, Rising Appalachia, The Shondes, RoboSapien, Athens Boys Choir, Collin Kelley, Heywood Wakefield, MC 5-Hour Boner, DJ Business Casual.
SUNDAY JULY 1
Mondo Revolution, 4 p.m.
Eyedrum Gallery, $5
290 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr.
PinkEye Film Shorts, Jayne County + the Sexual Side Effects, Hawg-Tied, MC 5-Hour Boner, DJ Business Casual, Dr. Katz, Fearless, DJ Va Jay Jay, DJ Duck |
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By: RYAN LEE
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Visiting a gay bookstore during a recent trip to Seattle, Nikki Chotas realized that buzz is building around her big queer idea of starting “a revolution you can dance to.”
Chotas overheard a couple of customers talking about making a cross-country trip to check out MondoHomo — a five-day gay indie music and arts festival Chotas concocted with fellow Atlanta lesbian Kiki Carr. Strategically scheduled after Gay Pride and alongside the U.S. Social Forum, MondoHomo features dozens of independent artists at various bars and venues throughout intown Atlanta from June 27 through July 1.
“We thought, there’ll be all these progressive activists in town [for the U.S. Social Forum], it will be right after Pride, all this energy will be there — now is the time to do it,” Carr says of the early brainstorming sessions for MondoHomo.
After experiencing gay music events like the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, and hearing about the Homo-A-GoGo concert series in Olympia, Wash., Carr and Chotas wanted to bring a similar gathering of artists to Atlanta — while adding a little local flavor to the standard recipe for queer music confabs.
“We’ve paid a lot of attention and tried to make this as diverse a festival as possible, and it’s coming to fruition,” says Carr, who is particularly excited about MondoHomo featuring the HomoRevolution Tour — a collection of gay rappers from across the country.
“Atlanta is Ground Zero for hip hop — it’s so ingrained in the culture here, and it’s such a fertile bed for hip hop,” Carr says. “I’m really interested to see how Atlanta’s going to welcome [the gay hip hop performers] and how those people will like the South.”
Jose Ramirez Jr. — AKA Bigg Nugg — has never been to Atlanta or the South, but says he can’t wait for MondoHomo and the HomoRevolution show at MJQ nightclub on June 29.
The Ohio-based rapper says he appreciates the egalitarian environment MondoHomo is promoting.
“I don’t think there’s really one headliner — everyone holds equal ground,” he says.
Homos in hip hop face hurdles gaining credibility their counterparts in the genre and garnering attention among some gay music fans.
“It’s like, no, that doesn’t really exist,” Bigg Nugg says of the perception of gay rappers.
The Atlanta leg of the HomoRevolution Tour — a national tour of queer hip hop artists — includes Bigg Nugg, Deadlee, Feloni, Tori Fixx, Shorty Roc, JFP and Foxxjazell.
“What we’re bringing with this tour is so diverse,” says Bigg Nugg, noting that the MondoHomo line-up includes black, white, Latino, lesbian and transgender rappers.
“We all have the same vision — not so much to be rappers, but to take it upon ourselves to speak for gay people on every level,” Bigg Nugg says.
MondoHomo partners with the U.S. Social Forum on June 29 to present a panel discussion on gays and hip hop, as well as a forum on the intermingling of sex, queer relationships and politics.
On June 28, MondoHomo hosts a Social Forum workshop on “radical queer elders” that will feature Jayne County, a transgender Georgia native who participated in the Stonewall Riots and was influential in New York’s underground music scene in the ’70s.
County recently delighted Carr and several other local queers by offering an oral history of what it was like to be at Stonewall.
“People were literally in tears — it was so moving to hear our history from somebody who’s still politically radical and active in the community," Carr says.
In addition to about 70 acts over five days, MondoHomo also features opening and closing night parties, art exhibits, and a street festival with a carnival theme among other events.
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