Nacht op Scherp/Night on the Edge

Gert Jan Kuijpers | Joost Mous | Bamber Delver

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Queer performers in Amsterdam in the 1990s. As the AIDS epidemic stalked the queer community like a silent killer—while friends were dying, the world looked away, and they were isolated—they kept performing. With glitter, courage, and a defiant middle finger raised against silence and repression.

The stunning book Night on Edge tells their story in words and images. It is a monument to courage, loss, and the joy of living. To the people who kept performing, challenging, and loving, even as death stood on the dance floor.

Part photography book, part oral history, it celebrates Amsterdam's iconic queer performers of the 1990s—a decade in which ecstasy and fear met on the dance floors of the iT, Mazzo, Club Chique, and RoXY. These clubs are forever etched into the city's memory.

Bep Mous and Geert-Jan Kuijpers, two icons of Amsterdam's nightlife, join writer and journalist Bamber Delver in looking back on a period when art and survival became inseparable. They open their private archives, filling the book with previously unpublished photographs. Their memories form the foundation of this richly illustrated volume about performance, identity, grief, and resilience