Each time I was warned about Circuit, the obvious inference was that because I was white, I was vulnerable to an aggressive Black and Latino hypermasculine sexuality. “Those boys” were going to manhandle me, and I should protect my vulnerable white body from their assault. However, that doesn’t fit the experience I had that night at Urbano. While we were dancing in the main floor of Circuit, JJ, Tamera, and I had the space mostly to ourselves. A few men stood around the railing looking at our group. However, most, unsurprisingly, were interested in the moves and bodies of the group of slender
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