Yeah but that meme /was/ homophobic, be careful bruv.
The gay connection's interesting tho, Radford talked about it a bit in our interview. Cause there are all those deep tech raves in Vauxhall, so you get a walk in gay contingent. If I remember rightly Mark said it had even lead to some of the deep tech DJs getting bookings at gay events. Kane from Cause & Affect also said that house music had helped him get over his homophobia - listen to that insanely homophobic (and unfortunately insanely heavy) Dub Mellitia track Bullet for example. GLAS, the after-party in Birmingham which was Loz and Kane's and a lot of the Brum bassline guys link into house/MDMA is a gay friendly party too: "GLAS is a party for everyone, gay, lesbian, straight, black, white, green or orange"
Despite the traditionally more conservative sound pallet in house music (at least, deep house) compared to all the UK genres, I suppose it is that tearing down barriers between straight and gay, black and white, young and old which is and remains house's radical edge.