"In the background, the toll of the AIDS epidemic impacted the Black gay community and other vulnerable communities in the 80's and early 90's. Black gay men often flocked to a sacred space - the dancefloor - if only for a few hours. Safer than the sex they were often afraid to have, they could move, sweat, laugh, cry, relinquish, replenish and take a trip with the pulsating beat of the club as soundtrack." (From Black Men of the AIDS Generation Invented Your Party)