Do Pride Differently This Year
If the noise, crowds, booze and often hypersexualised energy of central London Pride no longer feels like your thing, you're not alone! The Pleasure Medicine Pride Special is for gay men who want something that feels gentler, more nourishing, more meaningful as well as filled with delight and fun!
We are creating a space to celebrate Pride this year in a way that feels more true to you; through dance, connection, music and shared joy. No costumes needed. No substances. No overwhelming crowds and hustle and bustle. Just a room full of kind-hearted, warm and open gay, bi, queer and trans men coming together in East London to move, feel, express and dance to a fabulous live DJ set. This is Pride, reimagined. A celebration of who we are, not who we’re expected to be.
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“I’ve never done anything like this before. I thought I’d want to leave after 5 minutes… but I’m so glad I stayed. It was beautiful, fun and joyful — and I loved connecting with other men in such a unique way. I’ll be back again and again.” - Steven
Pleasure Medicine is a sensuality experience and conscious dance for gay men. Conscious dance is free-form movement with no steps to follow. It's about self-expression and joyful connection with yourself and others.
👉 Never done anything like this before? Perfect. Most men who attend Pleasure Medicine come solo and leave feeling more satisfied than they have in a long time.
What Happens:
- 2.5 hour guided journey
- Live DJ set
- Optional gentle sensual practices (simple and fully clothed)
- Conscious dance
- Substance free social time with a new community
- Hangout with tea and snacks after
The Revolution You’ve Been Waiting For
You know that gnawing feeling. Endless swiping that leads nowhere. Ghost messages haunting your phone. Another night in the same tired clubs, hunting for connection but finding only hollow hookups. What if there was another way?
Welcome to Pleasure Medicine
The sensual, substance-free antidote to gay loneliness. This isn’t just another gay event. This is your invitation to remember who you are beneath the masks, beyond the apps and surrounded by kind, open-hearted gay men who are ready to actually connect.
Pleasure Medicine is a revolutionary conscious dance experience for GBTQ men ready to shed the BS and come home to their authentic selves… and each other.
Born from creator Gary Albert’s seven-year devotion to embodied practices like 5Rhythms, Movement Medicine and Ecstatic Dance, this space is his love letter to our community. His answer to the silent ache so many of us carry.
“I found a part of myself I thought I’d lost. It was deep and emotional and fun at the same time"
This Is Your For You If You’re…
- Tired of the apps, the masks, the same suffocating spaces
- Longing for something deeper, softer, more joyful and real
- Ready to feel sensual and celebrated, without shame
- Curious about dance, embodiment and conscious pleasure
- Craving connection with kind, soulful, open-hearted men
“I wanted to leave after 2 minutes — I felt so awkward. But I stayed… and it became one of the most powerful, transformative experiences of my life. A beautiful evening with beautiful souls.”
What Awaits You
- OPENING CIRCLE
An invitation into trust, safety and intention. Melt the walls. Arrive as you are. Create the container of care. - SENSUALITY PRACTICES
Gentle, clothed touch-based practices that awaken your body’s natural pleasure centres. Intimate, healing, never performative. - 90-MINUTE ECSTATIC DANCE
A live DJ set flowing from ambient to tribal, heart-opening disco to deep house. Music that moves through you like medicine. - CLOSING & CONNECTION
Integration circle plus an optional sober social hangout to meet your new tribe.
“It felt amazing to be sensual and intimate with other men without it being sexual. So freeing. So healing. I can’t wait to come back.”
Meet Your Guide: Gary Albert
Therapist. Somatic Worker. Conscious DJ
With over a decade as a therapist and embodiment facilitator, and now training in Somatic Sexology, Gary helps gay men unlock pleasure, soften shame and rediscover the joy of being in their bodies through dance.
He’s also a columnist for QX Magazine, where he writes raw, real reflections on the mess and magic of modern gay life.
