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New York City is home to many great gay club nights, but one of our favorites is Soaked, held monthly at Rockbar. Soaked is a night full of body positivity, great song, drag, bears and go-go dancers. Plus, they have a wet underwear contest! 

To find out more, we spoke to the organisers Matty B and J.Rios: 

Hi guys! Why don’t we start by having you say us about yourselves and your backgrounds

My name is Matty B. I’m of Italian and Irish decent. I’m a native New Yorker and a licensed hair stylist. I am also a special organizer for the NYC Veterans Day parade, an active member of The American Legion Post 1291 and an activist for current active duty military and veterans needs and causes.

I started in the club scene about 8 years ago while working with the Furball Party at various places such as XL lounge, Space Ibiza, Santos House, Stage 48, Cielo and The Copacabana. While working with these places I realized that I wanted to be more involved with nightlife scene and to bring something that was different to a scene that had a lot of the matching parties. So when my best buddy J.Rios and myself talked about what we wanted to do to switch things up, Soak