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	glbtq >> social sciences >> Circuit Parties
		Circuit parties refer to an ongoing series of gay-themed events that take place in major metropolitan areas throughout the year.
		Circuit parties get their name from those who travel to various cities throughout the world--making the ''circuit''--to attend several parties each year.
		Circuit parties are characterized by huge crowds with multiple DJs spinning various permutations of house music, elaborate lighting and decoration, live musical or theatrical performances, acrobatics, nudity, and glow-stick waving.
	www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/circuit_parties.html (788 words)

	Circuit party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Circuit parties resemble underground rave parties in some respects, but differ in that circuit parties are highly publicized and professionally produced, and tend to attract people from a wider age range and a broader geographic area.
		Circuit parties have been blamed for the spread of methamphetamine abuse and the rise in transmission of STDs, particularly HIV, among North American gay men (for full article, see Crystal and sex).
		However, Circuit parties also are a site for education around these issues with medical and gay community organizations often working with party organizers to promote risk awareness, harm reduction, and safer sex practices to attendees.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Circuit_party (1067 words)

	USATODAY.com - Worries crash 'circuit parties' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Circuit parties are not appropriate for the youth we are working with," said Linda Ellis, the group's executive director when it declined the funds.
		Meanwhile, other charities acknowledge wrestling with the ethics of accepting contributions from circuit parties and prefer not to be involved directly in the events — in part because of liability concerns.
		Circuit parties got their name from those who travel to various cities — the "circuit" — to attend several parties each year.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2002/06/20/circuit-parties-usat.htm (1249 words)

	Circuit Party Men's Health Survey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The average number of parties the men who participated have been to in their lifetimes is 13, which indicates that our study participants overall had significant experience going to them and were neither exclusively people who were new to the scene, nor those who have been doing CPs for many years.
		The median age of men when the first went to a party was 28, indicating that these men have been going for an average of four years.
		When looking at men who go to circuit parties as a population, it is important to understand that the other 48 weekends out of the year they are not going to circuit parties, indicating that this is just one facet of their lives.
	www.caps.ucsf.edu /capsweb/ppt/Colfaxppt_files/slide0010.htm (166 words)

	Circuit Parties - Gay Circuit Party News, Schedule, Events, Promoters, DJs and Information
		But by-and-large, a given circuit party is an annual event held in a particular location, consisting of a block of nightly events staged at venues throughout the locale during a single weekend.
		Major fund-raising circuit party events are generally organized by a volunteer committee, whose responsibilities include scheduling the DJs and entertainment, coordinating the advertising campaign, and arranging sponsors and promotional partnerships with travel companies and the media.
		Veteran circuit aficionados will suggest that it is about the sheer joy and empowerment, the fun, making new friends, jetting away to a new locale and bumping into people that they have come to know from around the nation.
	www.boyscape.com (1094 words)

	AEGiS-Chicago Tribune: Fear of HIV fades in circuit party haze Outreach reminds dancers of danger
		In the gay community, the spectacle is known as a "circuit party"--after circuit-training routines in gyms--and it is one of a hundred such events that take place annually in the United States and elsewhere.
		But in 1999, he said, someone at a party tricked him into snorting a line of meth (he thought it was cocaine).
		He engaged in sex parties, the thought of using a condom sometimes vanishing in the haze of meth.
	www.aegis.com /news/ct/2005/CT050305.html (951 words)

	Circuit Party Event Backgrounds from BoyScape
		DJ legends such as Robbie Leslie and Warren Gluck honed their skills under the dome, where it was the norm for a single DJ to spin 18-hour sets, controlling the mood of the entire night and subsequent morning.
		The most spectacular of the annual events was The Black Party, celebrated in March to coincide with the vernal equinox.
		The annual Black Party is a heavy event, with a deliberately dark and ominous ambiance, characterized by sexual abandon.
	rss.boyscape.com /spotlight.htm (458 words)

	CIRCUIT 2001 Jonathon Wade-Drahos, William Katt
		To attempt for this “objective” view of the totality of circuit parties Tad (Daniel Kucan) is selected as storyteller through parts of the film.
		A natural choice since Tad is a struggling filmmaker, working on a documentary about the Circuit party phenomenon, a gay Rave scene—flashing lights, loud thumping electronic House music, widespread drug and steroid use, and hundreds of gyrating body-building hunks in sweaty bare torsos at an all-night party.
		The problem with that scenario is that hardly any of the intended audience would watch it without the promise of titillating sexuality, but by striving to appeal to an intended gay audience while hoping to draw a crossover audience unfamiliar with the Circuit party, the film satisfies no one fully.
	www.outrate.net /outratecircuit.html (975 words)

	Health & HIV
		Like a circuit party, a Roundup is an opportunity to make new friends, strut your stuff, shake a little booty and be a little slutty.
		And like circuit parties, there are dozens of LGBT Roundups every year across the country, including "Hot and Dry" in Palm Springs in September (not surprisingly, given its location, also very popular with ex-circuit boys), New York during Thanksgiving weekend, Provincetown in the fall, Hawaii and San Francisco.
		Just as the circuit boys were winding down for the evening in South Beach, our sober circuitgoers were headed to the beach for a dose of sanity.
	www.planetout.com /health/hiv/?sernum=2919 (966 words)

	Across The Nation \| 'Circuit Parties' Come Under Scrutiny Over Concerns That They Encourage High-Risk Sex Among Gays - ...
		In a CDC survey conducted last year, 95% of the 295 men who had attended circuit parties within the previous 12 months said they had used "at least" one illicit drug at a circuit party, with Ecstasy, ketamine, crystal meth and GHB being reported as the most popular drugs among party-goers.
		Law enforcement officials said that the parties, which some describe as "the gay version of raves," generally "present fewer problems for police than similar events," but health officials are concerned that the risk to participants' health may outweigh the financial benefits of such fundraising events.
		Gay Men's Health Crisis discontinued throwing its annual circuit party in 1998 due to concerns about the risk-taking behaviors that the events were encouraging.
	www.kaisernetwork.org /daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=11845 (494 words)

	Tony Hayden - 2000
		After all, it would be unforgivable to let ourselves be blinded by the glitz and glamour of the parties without recognizing the glue and foundation that linked all three nights of festivities together.
		Not one written or spoken review has failed to call this "the best circuit party in the history of the circuit." This type of advertising can't be purchased, however, it can be secured through hard work and an inspired creative vision.
		As Vizcaya is to White Party, or Black and Blue is to the week-long Montreal festival, Mark Baker's Sunday night extravaganza has solidified Sunday night during Gay Day Orlando as THE anchor event of the weekend.
	www.gayday.com /news/2000/circuit_dog_0006a.asp (1445 words)

	Hotlanta River Expo sinks in debt - Circuit event goes under after 25 years of partying
		Ten years ago, a circuit party consisted of a warehouse, a DJ and some good music, but parties are now held in stadiums or theme parks like Disney World and feature elaborate costumes and sets, Baker said.
		The weekend’s marquee party at the Fabulous Fox Theatre came closer to breaking even, but “it became clear that [the money it raised was] not sufficient to compensate for the significant losses incurred [earlier in the weekend],” the release said.
		Organizers are forced to move the final two parties from the Fox Theatre and the Civic Center to local nightclubs because of outstanding debt and lower-than-expected attendance.
	www.southernvoice.com /2004/6-18/news/localnews/hotlanta.cfm (2859 words)

	First of its kind study takes a look at the drugs, sex behind circuit party events \| Articles \| Current Issue \| Bay ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Circuit events tend to be lavishly produced events.
		Ninety-eight percent of the 295 gay and bisexual men that participated in the small study said their main motivation for going to a circuit party was to "listen to the music and dance." Ninety-seven percent said their primary reason for attending a circuit party was to "be with friends."
		The median number of circuit parties attended in the previous year was 3 (range: 1-16), with 40 percent having traveled to 2 or more parties outside the San Francisco area.
	www.baywindows.com /ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=Current+Issue&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=4&id=3DD2C1D8536D4534A5544AA69ED26449 (1218 words)

	Circuit Parties and Health Behavior: A Literature Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The research that is available suggests a set of emergent trends in the demographic make-up of party attendees; the motivations men have for attending CP, men's drug use patterns and sexual practices at parties.
		Circuit party attendance, club drug use, and unsafe sex in gay men.
		Circuit Parties and MSM, Dance Clubs and MSM, MSM sexual risk and drug use, Dance clubs and MSM (the term gay was also used in substitution for MSM on all searches)
	www.safeguards.org /content/Lit_review_circuit_parties.html (1177 words)

	eBay - circuit party, Entertainment Memorabilia items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		CIRCUIT PARTY 4 / VARIOUS by CIRCUIT PARTY 4 / VARIOUS
		CIRCUIT PARTY 1 / VARIOUS by VARIOUS ARTISTS NEW CD
		CIRCUIT PARTY 5 / VARIOUS by VARIOUS ARTISTS NEW CD
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=circuit+party&newu=1&... (326 words)

	Gay Men Said To Take AIDS Risks At 'Circuit Parties'
		"Circuit parties are an important and often positive influence on the gay community,'' Dr. Grant N. Colfax of the San Francisco Department of Public Health, told Reuters Health.
		The men answered questions about their drug use and sexual activity during the weekend of a circuit party in San Francisco, an out-of-town circuit party weekend, and two weekends spent in San Francisco without attending a circuit party.
		As was the case for drug use, risky sex was most common at out-of-town circuit parties, where 21% of HIV-positive men and 9% of HIV-negative men had anal sex without a condom with a partner whose HIV status was unknown or different from their own.
	www.rense.com /general18/cur.htm (518 words)

	We Get Good Press! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The circuit scene is a quintessential experience for gays around the world.
		The dance floor had no problem being filled, as the circuit boys enjoyed some of the old popular gay anthems the DJ was spinning along with some new house mixes.
		Ron Colvin, who is a staple on the circuit scene, attended the Leather party in San Francisco and the White Party in Palm Springs among others.
	www.willgorges.com /press.html (556 words)

	Concerned Women for America - San Diego Zoo Hosts Homosexual “Circuit Party”
		Photos from last year’s zoo party on the promoter Powerhouse Productions’ Web site show numerous men without shirts, some appearing to be nearly naked except for body paint, and others kissing on the lips; another photo shows two women appearing to fondle one another.
		Public restroom facilities are popular meeting places at “circuit parties” for sexual encounters and pose a danger to unsuspecting children or others who may encounter drug use or sexual misconduct.
		According to the report, 84 percent of attendees acknowledged using drugs during the circuit party weekends, and 25 percent of those surveyed admitted engaging in unprotected sexual contact during party weekends.
	www.cwfa.org /articledisplay.asp?id=1189&department=CWA&categoryid=family (327 words)

	QTMagazine.com - Gay Event - The Skeletons Ball - Dallas, TX - The fastest growing party on the Circuit is back.
		The annual event is being hosted by the Texas Circuit Boyz, a young, fresh and innovated new breed of promoters who focus not only on quality and affordable events, but work hard to bring the focus of the Circuit parties back to the charities themselves.
		In less then one year, the Texas Circuit Boyz have had an amazing 175,000 unique visitors to their website and have amassed a very loyal, weekly newsletter membership base of a few thousand party boys.
		The Texas Circuit Boyz recently hosted the Valley of the Dolls Weekend, which was a 10-event weekend held over Memorial Day weekend.
	www.qtmagazine.com /events/detail.cfm?id=6815 (436 words)

	"Circuit" Poz Party ... February 9, 2003
		And while the movie devolves into noir murder/flmail noir, worry not, for there's plenty eye-candy and gratuitous "shirtless guys" shots to take you through some of the Schafer's moral posturing on the superficiality of the scene.
		But most compelling is the surprisingly captivating performance the stunningly handsome Andre Khabazzi, who plays the sinister, drug-addled Hector, a high-priced hustler who's having a fit of self-destruction brought on by the fact that he's about to turn (gasp!) 30.
		Circuit, a Dante-like plunge into the heavy-duty gay-male party scene.
	www.keithreding.com /pozparties/pozparty020903 (562 words)

	Clubthings: VHS - Got 2 B There - Circuit Party Documentary
		The circuit is celebrated and examined like never before, with all its sexy vibrance and thorny issues.
		Questions are raised about drup use, muscles, steroids, and the politics of AIDS fundraising, never losing sight of the sheer joy and empowerment the circuit parties have brought to so many of us.
		This is a must-own for anyone who has experienced the joy and brotherhood of the circuit.
	www.clubthings.com /product417.html (96 words)

	PR: CircuitAsia Brings the Music and Festival Experience of the Circuit Party to the Far East
		This raunchy, excitingly impulsive place revs up to be one of the “most happening circuit party places” on the planet.
		Taking the cue from visionaries like Jeffrey Sanker and major personalities in the circuit party scene, we now bring this ground breaking and elevated style of partying to the exotic east.
		The east offers a deeper esoteric energy to circuit partying, an attraction that has always mesmerized the outsider drawn into this unknown.
	www.prwebdirect.com /releases/2004/10/prweb164622.htm (427 words)

	JustCircuit.com :: Events
		Tom of Finland Party Prague kicks off a decadent weekend of dance with thousands of the hottest men and boys from around the world, hosted by Peter Sparrow.
		Peter is the producer of TOM OF FINLAND parties around the globe, www.tomsparties.com, which benefit the TOM OF FINLAND FOUNDATION http://www.tomoffinlandfoundation.org/.
		Surprise Guest performances, Go Go Gods and Circuit MOM promise to make this a going away party that you will not want to end.
	www.justcircuit.com /pop_event.asp?event_id=585 (710 words)

	Hurricane Party Tour \| Gay Hawaii Circuit Party
		After a long hard day of traveling, the first party will be a relaxed one, allowing you to ease into the island's rhythm.
		Kieoki's Beer is Hawaii's favorite micro-brew and they are lending us their brewery for this full-moon party.
		This Retro-Night continues as we move to the courtyard of the plantation home for the music and dancing of "gay-days" gone by.
	www.infohub.com /TRAVEL/SIT/sit_pages/11731.html (547 words)

	Aidsmap \| Awareness and use of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) are found to be low in San Francisco gay and ...
		These men were sampled from three different subgroups: 403 men were randomly sampled from San Francisco gay venues; 176 were attendees of a circuit party in Palm Springs; and the third group consisted of 272 men attending the San Francisco STD (sexually transmitted diseases) clinic.
		The circuit party sample had significantly more college-educated men and a higher yearly income compared to the San Francisco and sexual health clinic groups.
		There was a substantial amount of recreation drug use reported in San Francisco and circuit party groups, and 37% and 51%, respectively, reported unprotected anal intercourse.
	www.aidsmap.com /en/news/656C2D2C-8629-4B08-8772-EAC5C04DDF71.asp (740 words)

	Stealing a Ride on the Party Circuit
		Catherine held a highly coveted position, and companies doing business with her tried to win her affections by inviting her to a myriad of ritzy parties and exclusive events around town.
		A reception at a four-star restaurant for the launch of a new magazine here, a dinner party honoring a famous author there -- the list of delectable invites went on and on.
		After the movie, transportation would be provided to the post-premiere party (with the members of the cast), to be held at a jazz club in Harlem.
	www.laurasnyctales.com /assorted/party.html (1786 words)

	Circuit (2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Watch "Circuit" to see some beautiful men, but don't expect any kind of story or characters that you would care about.
		When Hunk #2 (you will never recall the names of any of these personality-free characters) dies near the end of the film, you will not only not care, you may even be relieved.
		Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Circuit (2001)
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0218107 (300 words)

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