When the UK's nightlife shut down in 2020, most people expected the dancefloor to go quiet. Instead, a small collective of DJs and hosts in London turned their bedrooms into a stage, and built one of the country's most influential queer party movements in the process.
Queer House Party, founded by DJs Harry Gay and nyx alongside host Taali Not Charlie, began as livestreamed parties during lockdown, offering queer communities a way to gather, organise and celebrate when clubs were closed. What started as an online experiment quickly evolved into one of the UK's most beloved and consistently sold-out parties, drawing a fiercely loyal following and reimagining nightlife as a space where everyone gets to take part.
QHP are raves, performance and activism, high-energy dancefloors built on queer joy and collective release. For the collective, activism has never been separate from the party; it's something lived and shared on the dancefloor, then carried out into the streets in support of wider social change. From intimate club nights to full festival stages, QHP has made a point of keeping things open and participatory rather than exclusive.
2025 was one of the collective's biggest years yet. They rang it in with a New Year's kiki alongside London drag star Ceechyna, returned to Glastonbury for a second sold-out takeover of The Rum Shack, made their Netherlands debut, brought their energy to Brighton, hosted King Princess's album launch party, and threw a sixteen-hour day-to-night event at London's Number90 with DJs from around the world.
Accessibility and community support have stayed central throughout. In partnership with Kikazaru, QHP has run Deaf DJ workshops, a project they're expanding this year, while members of the core team continue to help facilitate the Trans Winter Shelter, supporting trans community members through the winter months.
Over five years, QHP has toured nationally and internationally and become a fixture of UK festival season, with appearances at Glastonbury, Mighty Hoopla, Body Movements, Homobloc, Boomtown, Latitude and Sziget. Their profile has grown well beyond the club circuit: Years & Years' Olly Alexander named them London's best queer night out, which led to QHP opening for the band's arena tour in 2022. Coverage has followed from Resident Advisor, DJ Mag, Hunger, Huck, Bricks, Time Out, Vice, Gay Times, Stylist and Attitude, alongside radio support from BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 6 Music, The Lot Radio NYC, Foundation FM and AAJA Radio.
Their line-ups reflect that same spirit of collaboration, past bookings include DJs like I. Jordan, Jaguar, Meg Ward, Lady Shaka, Tash LC and Only Fire, and live sets from artists such as Tom Rasmussen, Lynks, Grove, The Oozes and Rose Gray, alongside partnerships with fellow queer collectives including Black Is King, Cybertease, Drag Syndrome, The Bitten Peach and Haus of Telfar.
Now, in this new chapter, Queer House Party is building around extended day-and-night events on a bigger scale than before, bigger parties, new connections, but the same core spirit. Accessibility, activism, queer joy and dancefloor euphoria remain at the centre of it all. From a livestream born out of necessity to arena stages and festival headline slots, QHP's trajectory is a snapshot of how queer nightlife adapted, organised and thrived in the years since lockdown, proof that community and celebration can scale without losing their politics.
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