This Is Noiz: A Glittering, Decadent Lesbian Nightclub Open All Night, Every Evening | GO Mag

When ended up being the past time you visited a lesbian dance club? Not a lesbian party. Perhaps not a lesbian bar. Not a lesbian evening. I wish to discover huge, pulsating, base-line working lesbian groups, possessed by queer ladies and prioritizing queer ladies’ identities


forever, each night.

As opposed to remain right here watching the tumbleweed roll across all of our screens, we’ll hazard a reckon that the answer is not – with some exceptions. Either


you’re fortunate to invest a crazy night at


London’s Lick Your Club


, which exposed for a tremendously hot second during the summer of 2019, and hung-up the dancing shoes – in this instance, twerking shoes – within several months. Maybe you gallivanted in Colombia or South Korea in your time, and were able to party in Los Angeles Moza (Bogotá) or Pink Hole (Seoul) before they shut down, too. Or you’ve been to Noiz, a lesbian (had and priority) dance club which has been tossing dance parties in the exact middle of Athens for 18 decades.

The towering dance club sits in a busy street, beckoning you in together with her cushiony red carpet. You are greeted by large femmes within door asking for IDs and evidence of vaccination (or negative fast test). As soon as you’re in, within moments of applications off, an obscenely hot queer person – sharp jawline, deep brown eyes, short-hair throughout the back and sides – requires if you’d like a glass or two. Before starting finding out about flights to Greece, no, it isn’t really that facile to hook-up right here: the beautiful individual offering you very first game is actually a worker, and that punctual service is part of Noiz’s charm.

“We have only homosexual people employed by myself,” manager Mary Psaroudaki informs GO. She in addition operates two different queer taverns in Athens, generating her quite the lifestyle mogul. I don’t ask if she merely uses very appealing gays, nonetheless it undoubtedly appears in that way.

The regal tone ready from the red-carpet goes on inside cavernous dance club, with orange chandeliers and Grecian busts fulfilling disco golf balls and neon-lit ‘dare is rare’ signage. Every inch was made by Mary’s spouse of 13 many years and “very big really love” Tanya Papadaki. “She’s my muse for doing business,” Psaroudaki  claims. “She’s an interior designer, A-Z, whatever you see in Noiz, is actually her idea. Make sure you mention their,” Psaroudaki adds sweetly, attempting to honor the woman muse.

“Every four years I redesign my personal sites – with the aid of Tanya of course. Folks have annoyed effortlessly, and that means you have to keep circumstances new,” claims Psaroudaki. “It’s everything about esteem. You must program regard toward lesbians, gays, queers, by constantly purchasing your sites, by giving back to the community. You simply can’t simply take.”

Exploring the vivacious venue, it certainly feels like all that providing is paying down. Females use plum lipstick while looking into peacock tri-fold vanity decorative mirrors, before introducing into ecstatic party and their colleagues. Noiz, like their home team, is serving the greatest femme fuel, becoming an incubator for women, students typically, homosexual, bi, queer, straight, that knows, all glammed upwards for any eyes of not one person but by themselves.

Everybody else sips increases of who-cares-what-spirit and mixers, and is humming from fizzy sweet flavor of youthful evenings (and mild hangovers), that will have them all ripping up the dancefloor till 6 a.m. Its very good watching these exuberant ingesting and dance, this type of unleashed femininity, in a huge dance club in which 2per cent in the patrons are men (a few who happened to be on contrary edges associated with the club scrolling through Grindr, before uniting over a vodka-coke). Geri Halliwell’s



Raining Men



ironically pumps through Noiz’s sound-system, whilst ferociously rains women forever very long.

Managing the actual high womanliness, a lovely dykier-presenting crew begins to amass. All seem to have one or more item of clothes from (un)official consistent of the lesbian intercontinental: beanie, Vans, frayed Bermuda short pants, oversized shirts, fades and tank surfaces revealing cut arms from use a sport team. They truly are in front, proper by decks, protect inside the understanding this pub is made for all of them.

Geri Halliwell included, the soundtrack is totally set for a night of unabated obtaining free regarding the dancefloor. Tonight is likely the maximum smorgasbord of worldwide celebration bangers I’ve heard at a celebration.


DJ Milena, Noiz’s homeowner


, takes all of us globe-trotting with big base bangers from Italy (Maneskin’s



Zitti Elizabeth Buoni



), Brazil (MC Neguinho’s



Beibe do Biruleibe Leibe



), Algeria (Mohamed Ramadan & Gims’



Ya Habibi



) and Greece (Eleni Foureira’s



Ti Koitas



), plus a bit of



Mambo No.5



forever measure. It’s a collection which is extremely suitable to owner Psaroudaki’s wanderlust. “i am to many countries internationally, over 80,” she says. “its my passion to know new people, different ethnicities and undoubtedly I’ve been to many homosexual or lesbian bars.”

During Busta Rhymes’



Arab Cash



, we are possibly hit by a beneficial outdated Greek power cut, and/or speakers hit. We sit in silence for several moments, although the sexy personalsnel fixes the technical glitch while the crowd chants “DJ Milena, DJ Milena,” showing gratitude on her mixing prowess. Eventually, the baseline comes back once the strobe lights pierce through haze of tobacco smoke haunting the place. Minimal orange lights dart round the dance club like fireflies as people recommence their particular evening of smoking cigarettes and dance in complete excitement.

Viewing everybody being very younger, therefore gay, very complimentary, thus extremely high on sugar and spirits, I ponder exactly how different late adolescence might have been for countless people when we’d had an incubatory lesbian hub like this. Can you imagine every town had a long-term location where you can totally let out while honoring and broadening into the identity, every day each and every few days? At almost 2 decades old, Noiz is a popping stalwart for the young queer ladies community in Greece. “Thank God,” claims Psaroudaki, “and thank the lesbians.”

Noiz Club Athens




, 78 Konstantinoupoleos Avenue, Gazi, Athens, available 11:45 p.m. until 6 a.m. about weekends, until 4 a.m. during the week.