Queer performers and grief in 1990s Amsterdam. As the AIDS epidemic hunted the queer community like a stealthy killer, as friends died, as the world ignored and rejected them, they kept performing. With glitter, guts, and a middle finger to the silence and repression. The magnificent book ‘Night on Edge’ shows and tells their story.

This book is a monument to guts, loss, and zest for life. To the people who kept performing, challenging, and loving, as death stood beside them on the dance floor.

‘Nacht op scherp' ('Night on Edge’) is a photo book and oral history about the quintessential Amsterdam queer performers of the 1990s, a decade in which ecstasy and fear met in the clubs etched into the city's memory: iT, Mazzo, Club Chique, RoXY.

Bep Mous and Geert-Jan Kuijpers, two icons of that nightlife, look back together with writer and journalist Bamber Delver on a period in which art and survival coincided. Their private archives are opened: the book is full of never-before-published photos. Their memories form the basis for this richly illustrated book about performance, identity, grief, and resilience.