I’ve been to sensation white (Germany’s premier techno-trance festival),Samothraki Dance festival and Goa trance festival quite a few times. Based on all the male-female fornication I saw going on there, I can hardly say the men were gay.
I’m fiercely heterosexual and i absolutely love psychedelic trance music. Its not the same as “techno”. The baselines are harder, the riffs are edgier and the melodies are wilder. Psy-trance tracks are anywhere between 140–200 beats per minute whereas techno tends to be 100–130 bpm.
Still, I don’t know if u can call mainstream electronic stuff like Tiesto,Arman Van Buren, Paul Van Dyke, Paul Okenfold(mainstream trance) “gay” as such because I personally know lots of straight men and women who listen to them. I’d say its trans-gender (meaning it transcends gender) if anything, since it has a fairly all encompassing fan base.
But psy-trance… thats definitely not gay. Its a genre that evolved from acid house and has transformed into something completely marvelous. Before every set, I go to the DJ and ask him “hey, how high are you gonna take me this time?” :D.
Tbh, if anything, i think EMO-CORE is gay, or atleast way gayer than techno.