Get ready for "Dapper" - a revolutionary dyke party that redefines black-tie elegance with a queer twist!
Experience a retrosexual metrosexual wonderland at the Dalston Boys Club, where we play with the essence of dapperness, and bring its uniquely dykey qualities.
These patterns, textures, spaces, and lifestyles, have been denied to Dykes across gender, sexuality, race, class. We have been “uninvited” from proms, weddings, holidays, and other forms of “high class” and visible society. Regardless, we have found other ways to celebrate dapperness as one of the many signs of our queerness, lesbianism, and gender expression.
In other words– we’re taking the ties and gowns away from the tories and bankers! As our cross-dressing dyke-ancestors have said, we're not trying to “roleplay” or “emulate” a copy of a style and history that fails and continues to marginalise us. We reject an "original" and aim to subvert these aesthetics in a way that resembles our own.
We want to share this Deep Lez nostalgia for the future with you. We yearn for a fantasy-fuelled party full of dykes in suits, gowns, and daring fashion who come together to dance, flirt, and celebrate!
This night is for butches, studs, fem/mes, lesboys, non-binary, and all expressions of dyke; trans, bi, asexual, inclusive.
🎩✨THEME 001
What does “dapper” mean to the dyke?
Tonight, we ask that question to you– What does a Dapper Dyke look like?
👔 ✨DRESS CODE
Our definition of a "Black-Tie" party is an encouragement to come "full dress" (open to interpretation). We welcome DIY formal style that challenges traditional norms to celebrate lesbian-queer identity. Be bold!
We will also have makeup artists and a bootblacker in the venue for last-minute touch-ups ;)
🌹✨ ACCESSIBILITY
The venue has three floors, a main performance and event space on the ground floor, and a basement dance floor and an upstairs smoking area. We have received funding from Hackney Council to build a ramp to make the ground floor entrance wheelchair accessible, and the key parts of the event will take place on this step-free level. Sadly the basement and upstairs sections are not currently wheelchair accessible, but will only be used for dancing at the start and end of the night, or for smoking, respectively.
There are two bathroom stalls, one of which is can be accessed step-free but may not be large enough for some wheelchairs to enter unassisted- we will be posting photos to Instagram. This will be a designated “disability priority” toilet - if you need priority toilet access, you will be able to skip to the front of this queue no questions asked.