No One MagazineNo One Magazine is, first, a print publication and, second, a series of cultural programs that highlight and celebrate queer nightlife around the world.
Each year, the magazine focuses on a different city's LGBTQIA+ scene, sharing locally written stories of individuals and collectives who are organizing spaces and movements for their communities to build identity and connection through electronic music.
Whether you are a queer kid in the suburbs, an elder (re)finding their community, or an ally who appreciates and wants to learn more about the values of queerness, we hope this magazine exposes you to the beauty that we each embody and gives you the courage to discover yourself and your communities.
Nightlife is vast, ever-shifting, and truly global. To guide its process, No One focuses on five editorial themes that dimensionalize the narrative of dancing queers and three geographical considerations that aid city selection.
Five Editorial Themes
Music, arts, and their intersection
Exploring how electronic music, creativity, and queer culture inspire each other; highlighting emerging genres and artists shaping local nightlife.
Self-expression and aesthetics
Spotlighting the wide range of courageous expressions through style, movements, and performances that challenge and reimagine social norms.
Venues, spaces, and ambiance
Entering venues, squats, and other spaces that facilitate queer gatherings in featured cities to learn from their experiences and challenges.
Physical and mental health
Discussing how nightlife can positively influence queer communities’ well-being, from affirming identities to sharing harm reduction strategies.
Nighttime politics and policies
Emphasizing the importance of involving queer communities when developing legislation to ensure a more equitable and safer nightlife for everyone.
Three Geographical Considerations
Feasibility
With a two-person core team, No One prioritizes locations where travel is feasible, within our means, and where we have connections to help us navigate the local scene.
Diversity
Given feasibility, No One aims to cover places less discussed in popular media, in English and/or local languages—places that provide safer havens for queer individuals from neighboring, more conservative regions.
Dimensionality
When covering less-discussed places isn’t feasible, No One seeks to offer multiple perspectives that might affirm or challenge a city’s dominant narrative about queerness to represent its many facets.
By focusing on print, No One intends to take up physical space, demand attention, and facilitate deep engagement with each page, seeking to be an antidote to the fleeting nature of digital media and the ephemerality of nightlife.
Beyond the magazine, No One hosts cultural programs with clubs, festivals, bookshops, bars, restaurants, and more—whether for the launch of an upcoming publication or to unpack relevant topics within sub-communities.
With each issue and event, No One hopes to bring the global LGBTQIA+ community closer, sharing challenges, celebrating victories, and ultimately opening up this whole world to us—the dancing queers.
FEATURES
Mixmag
Article | New print magazine No One will focus on underground queer nightlife
Resident Advisor
Article | Print magazine No One explores Vietnam's queer parties in latest issue
Article | New magazine No One to spotlight queer dance music scenes
DJ Mag
Article | Queer underground clubbing around the world explored in new publication
Mixmag Asia
Article | No One Magazine spotlights queer club culture in Vietnam
magCulture
Review | We love queer mags: No One #1, Amsterdam
Stack Magazines
Interview | No One mag explores queer nightlife
Mention | A taste of Indiecon
LIKDO
Article | No One Magazine: Dive deep into Vietnam’s queer scene
Saigoneer
Article | In the Latest Issue of 'No One Magazine,' 15 Stories From Vietnam's Queer Communities
Velocity Press
Interview | Zine Scene: No One Mag
Winq Magazine
Print Feature | Issue 126, p. 18
[ISSUE, THE MAG]
Contribution | A Deck of Resistance in Print
Szene Hamburg
Video | Indiecon Highlights
DJ Lab
Article | New print magazine “No One Magazine” reports on queer club culture worldwide
PROGRAMS
Hive Mind - Bushwick's Queer Bookstore (NYC, US)
ISSUE 02 Launch | 16 May 2025
Club RAUM (Amsterdam, NL)
ISSUE 02 Launch | 9 May 2025
Vietnam Ballroom (Ho Chi Minh City, VN)
ISSUE 02 Launch | 19 Apr 2025
Savage x Snug x Peach (Hanoi, VN)
ISSUE 02 Launch | 12 Apr 2025
Indiecon (Hamburg, DE)
Printing is Resisting: On Publishing Queer Stories | Roundtable | 7 Sep 2024
Athenaeum Bookstore (Amsterdam, NL)
Proudly Printed: A Q&A About Publishing Queer Stories | Q&A | 1 Aug 2024
Club RAUM (Amsterdam, NL)
ISSUE 01 Launch | 26 Apr 2024
POP-UPs
London, UK
magCulture Live | 7 Nov 2024
Oakland, US
East Bay at Bathers Library | 6 Sep 2024
Amsterdam, NL
September Market | 31 Aug 2024
Portland, US
Happylucky x CHESS CLUB Pride Party | 11 Jul 2024
NYC, US
magCulture Live at Vitsœ | 6 Jul 2024
Manila, PH
Spruce Gallery Queer Zine Day | 15 Jun 2024
Athens, GR
Desired Landscapes - Bibliography 02: Magazines on Cities | 11 Jun 2024
London, UK
D&AD Festival x magCulture | 21 May 2024