Burning Man–Where to find the queer action, from bacchanalia to baked goods
The Castro, Chelsea, West Hollywood, and even Burning Man’s Black Rock City.This ephemeral city encompasses 4 square miles of Nevada’s Black Rock Desert.
Often stereotyped by uninitiated outsiders as a bacchanalia of sex, drugs, and EDM, the identity of the Burn runs far deeper.
At its core, Burning Man is a chimera of artistic, societal, and civic experimentation housed in a city that rises from the dust every August, then disappears without a trace by the end of the week.
Think of it as a sun-baked Brigadoon.“Burning Man is basically a temporary city of 80,000 people,” explained Jay Michel, a veteran Burner. “And just like any city, it has tons of different things happening, from yoga to the arts to dance parties.” The map of BRC is modeled after a clock.
