“Bushwick is a gay melding pot,” Haley Chang told me. The idea is what inspired the freelance director to spent the past few weeks interviewing locals in neighborhood on the subject of queer joy. 

The interviews are going to come out in small episodes over the course of June.

“The queer scene in Bushwick feels limitless to me. There’s such a range of people who live here. It’s not just parties, it’s not just the House of Yes,” she added. The scene has been a big reason Chang says that she moved to the neighborhood in the first place. She had grown up in Hawaii and came to New York to get a degree in film and TV from St. John’s University.