First Fridays: Poolside Pride

Boudoir is a Boston based collective of multimedia artists dedicated to organizing underground dance music events centered around Queer artistic expression. We combine dance music and visual art installations to provide a unique and inviting atmosphere. Our guests are encouraged to dress to a theme and to release their inhibitions for true self-expression. We pride ourselves on delivering high-quality dance music from sizzling, sensual techno, to throbbing soulful house, to experimental, bass-heavy breaks.

We respond to the lack of dedicated Queer spaces in Boston by creating pop-up parties across the city. The goal of our parties is to encourage radical, free expression, Queer connection, and build community. At our core, we provide unique collective experiences and uplift the voices of other Queer artists & musicians. Enter our Boudoir and step into a new world filled with sensuality, mystery, and passionate dance-floor moments.

Math3ca (they/he) is a Boston based DJ and underground party organizer. He is a co-founder of the queer and underground party Boudoir and the hyper glamorous GAY BASH’D. Math3ca is committed to contributing and reinvesting in the artistic and nightlife scenes of Boston. His main sound satellites around house — but their sets always include sprinkles of electro, acid, baile funk, ballroom, and Latinx/Afro-percussion. He’ll make you dance. 

Mx. Blaire (they/she) is a Boston based DJ and event organizer. Her sets float through multiple genres touching upon boomin’ bubbly breaks, uplifting house, slinky grooves, acidy techno, dreamy jungle, and anything that will make you dance. With a love of bringing people together, she organizes events all around Boston: spinning as a resident DJ of the queer-rave-collective Boudoir, co-conspirator for the euphoric break-beat inspired party Break-Fast. 

Bricklayer (they/them) is a Boston-based visual artist and DJ. They work with the rest of the Boudoir collective to nurture positive and affirming experiences through visuals, music, and lighting. As a video artist, they use both analog and digital tools to combine organic forms, fragments of pop culture, and distortion methods, exploring texture, color, and relationships between images. Their interest in making connections between past, present, and future extends into music selections that span over half a century—with a special soft spot for electronic disco, breaky techno, and anything with a chunky bass or 303.

Since starting to DJ back in 2018, Ms. Mango (she/her) has absorbed the various sounds of Boston’s queer nightlife, both past and present.  From the deep hum of a disco bass guitar to the underground dramatics of house and techno, they relay the positive message of love, sex, and unity.

As co-founder and resident DJ of Boudoir, Break-Fast, Nightrider and OnlyFriends, Adam Unknown (he/him) is helping make it happen here in Boston. Through these varying Queer events, he’s begun to develop a flexible party sound that’s draws from a multitude of genres, tempos and decades. Continuously working to cultivate the underground scene in Boston, it’s clear he’s not afraid of jumping well into the unknown. His sets are a continuation of this energy. Always looking for new and challenging sounds to play for friends. His selections always have a bit of drama and pull elements of future club, bass, two-step, and drums and set them on a deep foundation of house, techno, breaks, and other ethereal finds. 

Static (she/they) is a visionary drag performer based in Boston. She has made a massive impact on the local performance scene over the past seven years through her conceptual, thought-provoking, and occasionally bizarre performances. She is most known for co-founding GAY BASH’D, the collective behind some of Boston’s most outrageous dance parties and stage spectaculars.