#LGBTQ: Meet the “Gay Street Gang from Little Rock”, The House of Avalon

Party posse and clothing brand, The House of Avalon, the self-described “gay street gang from Little Rock, Arkansas” just made the scene at RuPaul’s DragCon this year. They recently chatted with Alright Darling about their plans for world domination.

“We are still feeling the high from LA and literally recovering from our newest party, GAWDDDAUGHTER which was this weekend. It was WILD. So much fun and we were very excited about it! Its the newest party we have created! AND we had our merchandise there for the first time, which was great!

How did House of Avalon come into existence?
We had been throwing house parties because we were bored. There wasn’t any sort of interesting night life or a place where we felt like we could really be ourselves. There was literally nothing. We just wanted to have fun! If we did go out, we would see the same heteronormative gays in the exact same khaki pants and polo or Abercrombie and Fitch t-shirt – and it was just bland. We live in the Bible Belt, and most people are just living afraid and ashamed. That wasn’t our scene at all. So, we got creative and made it ourselves – throwing house parties (at #junkqueens) and advertising them on Instagram. We didn’t even have a name for us until after our first party.

Our name developed organically. Mark was reading a book at the time called ‘A Return to Love’ by Marianne Williamson and the beginning passage described this place called ‘Avalon’ – a magical island which can only be seen with a childlike perspective. We loved this idea because it related to being confident in who we were and what we wanted to provide for people here. Besides that, we had all been familiar with the song of ‘Sisters of Avalon’ by Cyndi Lauper. We were definitely all sisters – like a house. Then the connection clicked and we started calling ourselves The House of Avalon.

We seriously are all about having fun, doing what we want, expressing ourselves, and not taking anything seriously whether that’s in the parties that we throw or the merchandise that we sell. We do this all while under the influence of pop culture and a good theme. We live and die by a theme! If there’s not a wink, it doesn’t count.“