01Sitges, gay paradise. Now who is looking after those who stayed?
They came for the beach, freedom and nights requiring no explanation. They stayed and grew older. Now paradise must learn something harder than seduction: care.
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02The Balkans Are Not in 7/8. The West Is Simply Obsessed with Counting Them.
Uneven rhythms are real. The myth that they alone explain Balkan music is just exotic arithmetic, beautifully packaged for export.
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03Gay life · Party · Politics · Travel
Save the sin! How Sitges’ Sin Street became cultural heritage
It is just over 70 metres long. Named after noise, ideologically misunderstood by Franco and filled with generations who came here to be a little freer.
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04Who stole whose music? Probably everyone from everyone.
From Banat’s lăutari to Azur cassettes and ethno techno: how Balkan music crossed borders, regimes and labels without asking permission.
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A personal map of places, nights and communities that give us permission to become more.
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