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photo by Isaiah S. Walter


photo by Isaiah S. Walter


RE-UNITE!D AND IT FEELS SO...FABULOUS


photo by Isaiah S. Walter


experience, UNITE! Music Festival. They will be pulling out all the stops to wow you at the fifth anniversary celebration taking place Friday, July 16 through Sunday, July 18. Partygoers can expect a weekend of stellar music, liberating fun and good vibes with three massive, high-quality main nighttime events by Masterbeat, OVERDRIVE and their new party brand, WÜF.


A The Rage Monthly talked with event


producer Kaleb Nicola to learn more about this year’s Unite! Music Festival.


Tell us about the origins of the event and how it has grown over the years.


20 www.rage.lgbt | JULY 2021


re you ready to re-Unite? Happy Dark Productions will return with their all- inclusive San Diego Pride nightlife


UNITE! began out of a desire for LGBTQ+


nightlife events to be more inclusive of all members of our various communities. As a music lover, I attend nightlife events not only within our community, but at music festivals, clubs and events that don’t specifically focus on our community. While attending these events, I regularly came across members of our LGBTQ+ community who told me that they often don’t feel welcome or accepted at circuit parties, which are primarily marketed to white gay men. Being someone with a diverse network of friends in various racial and cultural communities who had, at times, expressed the same sentiments to me, this bothered me a lot, especially as someone who has witnessed and benefited from the power of a collective music experience to connect, heal and uplift.


At that point, I had already been producing


events with my partner at the time in San Francisco for over five years, and I realized that, consequently, I already had the network and capability to make changes from within our scene, so I set out to do just that. The first year began as a weekend of nighttime and daytime events at various venues around San Diego. After our first year, it became clear that we could do a lot more (as far as production, logistics and range of talent) if we focused on producing the entire weekend of nighttime events in one loca- tion, without the need to setup and move production and staff between locations. Since then, we have focused primarily on a series of nighttime events at one venue, Spin Nightclub. This has allowed us to grow the event substantially.


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