Ana Matronic (Scissor Sisters) To DJ Darqwolf's Tea Dance Monthly Party | SLEAZE Residency Starts 3/19 7-10 PM

Darkqwolf and The Kink Community Announce SLEAZE,  Ana Matronic (Scissor Sisters) To DJ Monthly Parties Residency Starts Sunday, March 19th, NYC's Biggest Tea Dance 7-10 PM Tickets Available Now

On March 19th, Darkqwolf and the LF&K (Leather/Fetish/Kink) community he's been a leading voice in will have Ana Matronic DJing NYC's biggest tea dance, kicking off a monthly "SLEAZE" residency. With a portion of ticket sales being donated to local LGBTQ+ nonprofit organizations, the party begins at 7pm EST at NYC's Red Eye, the city's newest gay venue. Combining the two New Yorkers' eclectic music knowledge and party-throwing prowess, the night is bound to be an adventure.    Of the event, the hosts wrote: "We're combining classic tea with a dash of Fetish a la 'Cruising' and early mornings at The Saint. NYC’s kink and nightlife community finally gets the kind of big-room tea dance we haven’t seen in decades. We can’t wait to get down and dirty on the dance floor every third Sunday of the month!” Tickets are on sale now and available here or at the door.  Ana Matronic Bio: Ana Matronic is an artist, musician, author, di, radio & television presenter and public speaker best known as the lone female member of pop phenomenon Scissor Sisters. Equally at home stalking atop a dirty, dingy bar as she is inciting record-breaking Hyde Park crowds to roar with delight, Matronic has honed her reputation as a formidable onstage presence and sharp-witted emcee since cutting her teeth at San Francisco's legendary drag night Trannyshack in the late 90s. Since her award-winning rise with Scissor Sisters in 2004, Ana has collaborated with such legendary artists as Elton John, New Order, Duran Duran and Mark Ronson, Sean Dixon of the Soup Dragons, Bright Light Bright Light, and RuPaul's Drag Race winner Sharon Needles. New Year's Eve 2014 saw Matronic's debut as a broadcaster with her first show for BBC Radio 2. This spiraled into a 17-part specialist series on rare groove disco and in 2017, her own weekly show called Dance Devotion debuted. Part of the Saturday night lineup with Trevor Nelson and Craig Charles, Matronic researched, presented and made bespoke mixes covering a wide range of dance music history from the birth of disco in 1970 to today's EDM, techno and house. Dance Devotion aired on Radio 2 from midnight-2am for five years. In June of 2022 Matronic debuted a new show on Mixcloud called A Bewitching Hour, with new episodes uploaded fornightly. She is currently working on a history podcast launching in autumn 2023. Ana Matronic's television experience includes covering the semifinals of the Eurovision Song Contest, hosting informational documentaries for the BBC on music, entertainment history, robotics and artificial intelligence, and making guest appearances on British television covering a wide range of topics from popular culture to artificial intelligence to politics and human rights. An avid science fiction and comic book fan, Matronic wrote the story Rock Block for the 2010 tribute comic to legendary punk club CBGB published by BOOM! Comics. Her first full-length book Robot Takeover: 100 Iconic Robots of Myth, Popular Culture, and Real Life was published by Hachette/Octopus in 2015. Matronic speaks publicly about the subject of robots, artificial intelligence, and Transhumanism; in November 2017 she delivered her TED talk "Living the Electric Dream" at the Parliament Buildings in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Ana Matronic is also a visual artist and member of legendary visual arts collective The Joshua Light Show, creating live psychedelic imagery by hand using liquid colors on a custom-built overhead projector. Matronic has developed the art further in collaborative live performances, interpreting sound to vision in improvised immersive experiences for such artists as Lou Reed, Television, Steve Reich, Silver Apples, Medeski Martin & Wood, and Manuel Gottsching.Matronic lives in Brooklyn with her husband and collaborator Seth Kirby and their cat Bootsy. Darkqwolf Bio: Darkqwolf is a producer & host of Leather/Fetish/Kink (LF&K), social and community-focused events in NYC such as Jockstrap Happy Hour (now in its seventh year at The Eagle NYC), Rough Sex NY, K!NK and FUNDIES! to name just a few. A prominent member of the international LF&K community since first getting involved in 2008, Darkqwolf was Mr. Eagle NYC 2016, a top finalist at International Mr. Leather (IML) later that year, then asked back to judge at IML’s 40th anniversary in 2018. Most recently he served on the board of Folsom Street East, Inc. as president from 2020-2022 after joining in 2017, staging the largest outdoor LF&K festival and fundraiser on the east coast annually. He travels throughout the US and Europe attending LF&K events, bringing the best of what he experiences back home to the local community. Darkqwolf’s events are built around his guests. The space, the feel, the sound, the visuals–all crafted with the intent of bringing a fresh yet familiar experience. He takes hosting literally by creating welcoming spaces, ensuring everyone who attends feels comfortable, appreciated and seen. “Most folks don’t know I’m a Bear at heart – it’s from them I first learned everyone is welcome. And how to give good hugs!” Fundamentally his events are about bringing people together and having a good time. “I create the kinds of spaces I want to be in and then share it with everyone who wants to be in it too – I do it for me, but it’s always about you.”  Most important to him though, he also gets to be of service – a cornerstone of his personal mission – through his events. Each finds ways to informally educate, support and give back, with Jockstrap Happy Hour alone raising thousands of dollars annually for local growing LGBTQ community nonprofit organisations in New York. A lifelong New Yorker born and raised in Brooklyn, Darkqwolf came out and up in the city’s nightlife, watching it evolve since the 1990s. He feels passionately that great nightlife events can bring people together in a way that’s truly unique. For him it’s important to  preserve and celebrate a special and unique legacy in the LGBTQ community. LF&K nightlife especially has been a place where outsiders have found each other and the room to explore and grow in their individuality, while finding community on the dancefloor and beyond.