When was the very last time you visited a lesbian dance club? Maybe not a lesbian celebration. Perhaps not a lesbian club. Maybe not a lesbian night. I want to hear about huge, throbbing, base-line working lesbian clubs, possessed by queer females and prioritizing queer ladies identities


forever, every evening.

As opposed to remain here enjoying the tumbleweed roll across our screens, I’ll hazard a guess that the answer is never – with some conditions. Either


you had been fortunate enough to spend a wild night at


London’s Lick Your Club


, which exposed for a tremendously hot second in the summer of 2019, and hung-up their dancing boots – in cases like this, twerking shoes – within several months. Perhaps you gallivanted in Colombia or South Korea in your time, and managed to party in La Moza (Bogotá) or Pink Hole (Seoul) before they shut down, as well. Or you’ve been to Noiz, a lesbian (had and concern) dance club that’s been throwing party parties during Athens for 18 years.

The towering club rests on a busy street, beckoning you in with her cushiony red-carpet. You are met by large femmes within door asking for IDs and proof vaccination (or unfavorable quick test). When you’re in, within minutes of coats off, an obscenely sexy queer person – sharp jawline, strong brown vision, short-hair about as well as sides – requires if you’d like a glass or two. Before you begin finding out about routes to Greece, no, it’s not so easy to hook-up here: the beautiful individual proclaiming to offer you the first circular is an employee, this prompt solution belongs to Noiz’s allure.

“I have merely homosexual men and women working for me,” owner Mary Psaroudaki says to GO. She in addition operates two various other queer pubs in Athens, producing the girl rather the nightlife mogul. We are not able to ask if she merely hires really appealing gays, it certainly seems that way.

The royal tone ready by the red-carpet continues inside the cavernous dance club, with orange chandeliers and Grecian busts satisfying disco balls and neon-lit ‘dare to-be rare’ signage. Every inches was designed by Mary’s spouse of 13 many years and “very large really love” Tanya Papadaki. “She’s my muse for doing business,” Psaroudaki  states. “She’s an interior fashion designer, A-Z, whatever you see in Noiz, is actually the woman concept. Make sure you mention their,” Psaroudaki includes sweetly, planning to respect her muse.

“Every four years we redesign my personal venues – with Tanya without a doubt. Folks have bored conveniently, so you need certainly to keep circumstances new,” says Psaroudaki. “It’s about esteem. You have to show respect to your lesbians, gays, queers, by continually investing in your own locations, giving back to the city. You cannot just take.”

Exploring the vivacious location, it surely feels like everything providing is actually settling. Ladies implement plum lipstick while gazing into peacock tri-fold vanity decorative mirrors, before opening into ecstatic dancing using their peers. Noiz, like its doorway employees, is actually offering the best femme energy, acting as an incubator for women, college students generally, homosexual, bi, queer, straight, you never know, all glammed upwards when it comes down to sight of no body but by themselves.

Every person sips increases of who-cares-what-spirit and mixers, and is also whirring through the fizzy sweet taste of vibrant evenings (and light hangovers), that may keep them all ripping up the dancefloor till 6 a.m. Its very nice seeing such exuberant consuming and dancing, such unleashed womanliness, in a huge nightclub where 2% on the patrons are men (a few whom were on reverse corners in the bar scrolling through Grindr, before uniting over a vodka-coke). Geri Halliwell’s



Raining Guys



ironically pumps through Noiz’s sound-system, whilst ferociously rains females all night long very long.

Managing from high womanliness, a beautiful dykier-presenting team actually starts to amass. All appear to have one product of clothing through the (un)official uniform from the lesbian international: beanie, Vans, frayed Bermuda shorts, oversized tees, fades and tank tops disclosing sculpted arms from use some kind of recreation team. They truly are at the front, right by decks, protect in expertise that this nightclub is made for all of them.

Geri Halliwell included, the sound recording is totally ready for a night of unabated acquiring loose throughout the dancefloor. Tonight is likely the best smorgasbord of intercontinental celebration bangers I’ve heard at an event.


DJ Milena, Noiz’s homeowner


, requires us globe-trotting with big base bangers from Italy (Maneskin’s



Zitti Elizabeth Buoni



), Brazil (MC Neguinho’s



Beibe do Biruleibe Leibe



), Algeria (Mohamed Ramadan & Gims’



Ya Habibi



) and Greece (Eleni Foureira’s



Ti Koitas



), plus a little bit of



Mambo No.5



once and for all measure. Its a group that is extremely fitting to owner Psaroudaki’s wanderlust. “I’ve been to several countries internationally, above 80,” she states. “its my activity understand new-people, different ethnicities as well as I’ve been to a lot of homosexual or lesbian bars.”

During Busta Rhymes’



Arab Money



, we are both struck by an effective outdated Greek power clipped, or perhaps the speakers blow. We sit-in silence for a few moments, even though the sensuous employees fixes the technical glitch and also the audience chants “DJ Milena, DJ Milena,” revealing gratitude on her behalf blending prowess. Before long, the standard comes back as strobe lighting pierce through haze of cigarette smoke haunting the venue. Tiny lime lights dart across club like fireflies as individuals recommence their night of smoking cigarettes and dance in full euphoria.

Watching every person being therefore younger, so gay, very complimentary, thus quite high on glucose and spirits, I question exactly how various late puberty would-have-been for a lot of of us if we’d had an incubatory lesbian hub along these lines. What if every town had a long-term site enabling you to entirely let loose while honoring and broadening in the identity, every day of each few days? At almost two decades old, Noiz is actually a popping stalwart for all the youthful queer ladies’ neighborhood in Greece. “Thank Jesus,” says Psaroudaki, “and give thanks to the lesbians.”

Noiz Club Athens




, 78 Konstantinoupoleos Avenue, Gazi, Athens, open 11:45 p.m. until 6 a.m. from the weekends, until 4 a.m. during the week.