Club Quarantine

Club Quarantine Logo[1][2]

Club Quarantine (Club Q) is a virtual gay club based in Toronto that began hosting URL (online) parties in early 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.[3][4][5] Created by four friends, recording artist Ceréna Sierra, DJ Casey MQ, comedian Brad Allen, and digital creative Mingus New, Club Q began by hosting parties on Zoom in March 2020.[6] In Ontario, full closures of all non-essential businesses were recommended by the province on March 16 2020.[7] Club Q's first online event took place on that same Monday, March 16, 2020, with a modest 12 attendees.[8] The Club Q Zoom event on March 17, 2020 featured a spontaneous live stick-and-poke session where a virtual club-goer got a tattoo reading "Club Q".[4] Later online events often saw 1,000 attendees.[4] By April 2020, Club Q had partnered with PAPER magazine (a collaboration called PAPER x Club Quarantine) to host a series of events.[9] Club Q hosted their first IRL (real life) - as opposed to URL) event for Halloween 2021 at a membership based co-working space called Eastroom in Toronto where 700 people attended. The IRL halloween event was called "Literally Dead" and was also live streamed to a Zoom audience.

  1. ^ "@clubquarantine • Instagram Photos and Videos". www.instagram.com. Archived from the original on 2020-05-09. Retrieved 2021-11-07.
  2. ^ Steinberg, Sophie (2020-10-13). "Club Quarantine: A queer safe haven in the form of a virtual dance party". The Occidental. Retrieved 2021-11-07.
  3. ^ Adams, Kelsey (2020-03-21). "Toronto's hottest club is online". NOW Magazine. Retrieved 2021-11-07.
  4. ^ a b c "How to Throw a Rave at the End of the World". PAPER. 2020-03-31. Retrieved 2021-11-07.
  5. ^ bird, angie (2020-12-26), CLUB QUARANTINE, retrieved 2021-11-10
  6. ^ "People in Toronto are beating the coronavirus nightclub ban by partying online". www.blogto.com. 16 March 2020. Retrieved 2021-11-07.
  7. ^ "A timeline of COVID-19 in Ontario | Globalnews.ca". Global News. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
  8. ^ "Nightclubs Have Closed, But A Hot New Queer Party Is Happening Online". HuffPost. 2020-03-20. Retrieved 2021-11-07.
  9. ^ "Pabllo Vittar Will DJ Tonight's PAPER x Club Quarantine". PAPER. 2020-04-08. Retrieved 2021-11-08.