When Gideön founded Homo-Centric Records, his manifesto was passionate, definitive and powerful. He wanted to “re-establish the lines of queer musical tradition at the heart of house music lost to Aids and the recent capitalist desecration of dance music”. That heritage celebrates the original LGBTQIA+ legends of the past and present, from Frankie Knuckles and Larry Levan to The Carry Nation and Honey Dijon. Central to the label is one fundamental: house music is the language of queer freedom, self-expression, love and diversity.
Growing up in south London, Gideon Berger — also known as Gideön — became obsessed with pirate radio stations and the diverse sounds that they were representing, from African and Caribbean music to house, disco
