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Looking for love on the dance floor Rae Spoon explores issues of identity — and

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Looking for love on the dance floor
Rae Spoon explores issues of identity — and electronic music — on his new album, Love is a Hunter

    * By: Jen Zoratti
    * 30/09/2010 2:25 AM

http://www.uptownmag.com/music/features/Looking-for-love-on-the-dance-floor-104023584.html?viewAllComments=y

"I was really inspired by dance music and being at dance parties," says Spoon over the phone from Calgary. "I was fascinated by the queer community and the process of finding community and belonging in the context of everyone being a bit lost."
   
As a transgender person, it's a subject close to Spoon's heart. Now 29, he says he was able to look back on his questing club kid days with a bit of objectivity.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde


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