At around 4am on a wintry Sunday, in a faux-vaudeville concert hall perched beneath the train tracks near London Bridge, a scene that feels like a distillation of the city’s queer zeitgeist is playing out. Slim Soledad , the São Paulo-raised, Paris-based DJ commands the decks, belting out a body-thrashing mix of jagged techno and buxom, gyrational baile funk. On the raised stage behind her, a clique of supermodel-standard girls clad in scanty-yet-chic lingerie-forward looks bop to the uncompromising beats, their faces either pulled taught into angular pouts or lit up by the broadest grins.
Dead in the middle of them is the woman of the hour, the London-based DJ, stylist and party promoter Mina Galan . Why the woman of the hour? Well, because the baying crowd before her has gathered for Club Stamina , the scene-steering club night that she founded at the start of 2024. In less than 12 months, the party has grown from a happenstance shindig to a regular party with a feverish cult following among London’s creative and queer milieux, earning a particular reputation as a joyous haven for trans clubgoers and connoisseurs of progressive Latin club sounds.
Originally hailing from Málaga, the Spanish-Moroccan 25-year-old has a long history in the club. “Nightlife has always been part of my life. I was a bit of a naughty kid, and I started going out really young.
..” she giggles, recalling her inauguration into the brash-and-blurry gay scene of Torremolinos aged 13.
“I’v.
