Even though its organizer denies it was intended as such, Chicago’s “Disco Demolition Night” of July 1979 has come to be seen as an ugly frenzy of homophobia and racism.
As Chicago shock jock Steve Dahl drove onto the field at Comiskey Park on July 12, 1979, the 50,000-strong crowd in the stands was already fired up and nearly ready to explode. It wasn’t the loss of the Chicago White Sox that was filling the air with tension, or the double-header encore that was scheduled to begin shortly.
or that the passionate crowd would turn into an out-of-control mob that would destroy the field and shut down Comiskey Park, leaving a mark on America’s cultural history long after the smoke cleared.swept through the country like a forest fire. Its spark ignited in the underground party scenes of communities of color and the gay community, gained traction as popular nightclubs in music meccas like NYC realized its power, and then jumped to the air waves to become a mainstream sensation.
In a 1979 year-end review, music journalist Dave Marsh, who was one of the earliest critics to call out the seedy undertones of Disco Demolition Night,that “White males, eighteen to thirty-four, are the most likely to see disco as the product of homosexuals, blacks and Latins, and therefore they’re most likely to respond to appeals to wipe out such threats to their security.
When the first game ended, the crowd was tense and ready to let loose. When Dahl drove onto the field, he was both frightened and pleased by how many people were there. He was also worried that he would lose his job. Baseball players trickled back onto their singed diamond and began to warm up, but the anti-disco crowd wasn’t done. First a few, then a flood of people stormed the field. There was no one there to stop them. The mob, fired up on booze, pot, and anti-disco fever, began to run the bases. They dug up home plate and slid down the giant foul ball pole. They broke glasses full of beer and lit records that hadn’t been put in the box on fire.
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