Welcome to the AFAO/NAPWA Parties Website

Dance parties are firmly a part of our cultural landscape. They are special in the way they allow us to communicate with each other without speaking, and in the way they create spaces where we can participate in and celebrate our gay and lesbian culture. Parties are also a time when some of us go to the limits in terms of fashion, endurance, drug-taking and sex.

Planning ahead and thinking through our strategies for maintaining safe sex can help us keep safe and healthy on the night of the party and afterwards. On this site, you’ll find information and advice to help you plan ahead and stay safe. There is special advice for those of us on HIV treatments, first time party-goers and those of us who take recreational drugs.