Enter Brooklyn's Most Epic, Queer-Friendly Party

The Red Bull Music docu-series Inspire the Night opens the door of Brooklyn's iconic House of Yes nightclub experience and the people who make it happen. The event has become a haven for queer folks, performance artists, and people of all sexualities to express and explore aspects of themselves they never knew existed.

One participant, Kevin Charles, recalls that his religous mother threw herself on the floor and told him he was going to go to hell when he told her he was gay. She immediately grabbed her Bible and aimed to pray away the gay in her son. "What prayer are you gonna say to fix this?" Charles poignantly responded.

At a young age, he asked his mother if he could learn to sew and dance, and was continually told no. "If you hear no a lot, eventually you believe it. You have this feeling of you're not really worth that much," Charles says. House of Yes helps remedy that. He's able to fearlessly mix masculine and feminine elements in his ensembles to express the aspects of himself he knew he possessed, but that had never seen the light. "At House of Yes, that person comes out and shines."

The episode also introduces the two women who founded the event, Kae Burke and Anya Sapozhinkova, and emphasizes their chemistry. "When I first met Kae, we were instantly connected. It was the closest thing to love at first sight, but in a friendship," Sapozhinkova says. They quickly realized their artistic energies aligned and used the strength of their connection to fuel the massive endeavor of creating House of Yes.

The show doesn't shy away from the emotional, spiritual, and physical toll that producing the show takes. While assembling the event, Anya began noticing extreme highs and lows in her emotional and mental states, even if things were going well. After being urged by colloborators to seek professional help, she was diagnosed with bipolar 2 and began a journey to care for herself more deeply. Her journey is illustrated by the otherworldly video art of Sam Cannon while Anya describes how perscribed medication, support of her House of Yes community, and a meditation practice ground her new healthy foundation.

Anya wraps up the episode by describing how House of Yes is "a representation of how we feel like the world should be. In a way it's utopian, and maybe idealistic. But in another way it's been working. It plants seeds in people's minds to really embrace who it is that they are."

Watch the Inspire the Night: House of Yes episode below.