THICK ‘N’ JUICY’s Meta account suspended without warning

One of Australia’s boldest body-positive queer party brands, THICK ‘N’ JUICY, has had its social accounts suspended by Meta without warning or explanation. Another victim of the platforms’ anti-LGBTQ policy changes targeting the community.

Last Thursday, without warning, THICK ‘N’ JUICY’s social media account was shut down. The team couldn’t access the account, but Meta is still taking the party brand’s money for advertisements.

Managing Director, Kam Shafaati, told QNews that over the past month, posts had been flagged and taken down for suspected breaches of community standards, but these were all reinstated.

“We lodged complaints, and they were reinstated because we hadn’t done anything wrong,” he said.

“Then mysteriously our entire account was taken down after we posted about an upcoming event in Adelaide. The image on the post was of a man’s chest.”

Meta say they don’t know why the accounts shut down

The team quickly discovered they were locked out of all their party brands, including THICK ‘N’ JUICY, Habibi, Action and Beefcake, making it impossible to reach and engage with their audiences.

“What makes us really frustrated is the impact this has on the smaller and regional parts of our communities we reach and engage with,” Shafaati said.

“Because we have a Meta business account, we have been able to make a direct appeal to an actual person, they escalated the appeal, but let us know that they can’t actually do anything about it. All they can do is view the status.”

Meta has told them that they “don’t know why we have been deactivated and they are escalating the matter through their teams,” but won’t provide a timeline to resolution. They have been told just to wait.

A week on the brands facebook accounts have been restored but their instagram is still shut down.

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Meta’s targeting of LGBTQIA+ accounts isn’t new

Meta came under scrutiny after QNews reported the wave of Instagram account removals targeting queer performers and nightlife collectives.

In December 2025, dozens of Instagram accounts belonging to LGBTQIA+ creators, BIPOC-led events, sex workers, and pole dancing businesses and professionals had been suspended or permanently disabled.

After years of using the platform to build community and promote their businesses, they had no meaningful avenue to appeal. What alarmed the creatives was that the reason for the removal was false accusations as serious as “human exploitation” and “human trafficking”.

The platform gave no meaningful avenues of appeal from the decision. In some cases, creatives lost their entire accounts as Meta upheld their decision to remove accounts for “violating community standards.”

Through AI sweeps, the tech giant has targeted LGBTQIA+ performers, BIPOC creators, sex workers, and pole dancing communities. Accounts have been removed, restricted, or permanently disabled without warning, explanation, or any avenue for appeal.

The American multinational technology company has declined to give any further information, citing policy and legal reasons.

THICK ‘N’ JUICY has always been more than a party

Last week’s findings of GLAAD’s annual Social Media Safety Index confirmed Meta’s anti-LGBTQ policy changes have made their platforms more toxic and harmful for LGBTQ users, especially transgender and non-binary people.

GLAAD’s annual report looked at the social media platforms TikTok, YouTube, X, and Meta’s Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Instagram recieved 41 out of 100 and Facebook recieved 40 out of 100 score.

With over a decade of history, THICK ‘N’ JUICY is a cornerstone of Australia’s queer nightlife that define something new on the scene and evolves to welcome the full spectrum of identities.

Starting on Labour Day weekend at The Laird in 2013, THICK ‘N’ JUICY was cheekily billed as a ‘sexy sausage-fest’ for men of all kinds. 

Its welcoming attitude, playful themes, and ability to bring together people of all shapes, sizes, and subcultures, saw the party started expand to Sydney and Brisbane and continued to host parties internattionaly.

The party coordinates and fundraisers for local sporting groups and Thorne Harbour Health, and have expanded from a predominantly male orientated party to a mainstream queer event.

In recent years, this expansion has seen it host parties in Perth and Adelaide.

‘Being a safe space is not just lip service for us’

“We were inundated with emails and messages asking us to put a party on in Adelaide,” Spencer Colt, who manages business development, told us.

“And were overwhlemed when over 400 people came through the door, I think that says a lot about community coming together in places where they usually feel invisible.”

“One of the things that makes TNJ special is the way it brings together different parts of the queer community under one sweaty, euphoric roof for a night of connection, music, freedom, and unapologetic tech house hedonism.”

Shafaati said “Our values have always sat at the heart of community building and inclusion.”

“Being a safe space is not just lip service for us. We constantly have performers and participants who are non-binary and transgender, with a diverse range of DJs of all genders and abilities. Our offshoot party, Habibi, is dedicated to the queer Middle Eastern community“

“We have a lot of partygoers who come from various backgrounds,” Colt added, “And survived some pretty harsh realities while growing up in a straight world, as we all have.”

“They have and found empowerment and a safe space and acceptance in the TnJ family as well.”

‘We are seeing homophobic mass reporting on queer events’

“There were a lot of disenfranchised people who feel left out of community spaces,” Colt said, “We work hard to give them something they don’t get elsewhere.”

“That thought of that may ruffle a few feathers, but that’s the reality. When we go out, we want to be our authentic sleves, not feel like we are zoo animals for the hens parties.”

All the team can do right now is speculate about why their account was taken down.

Was it something to do with a spike in anti-LGBTQIA+ attention due to IDAHOBIT protests in Adelaide last week? Or does it have something to do with their upcoming party in Sydney, partnering with Trough?

Both posts went up roughly at the same time, and then the account was disabled.

“We are seeing homophobic mass reporting on queer events, content creators, and performers, which I’m sure is triggering the algorithm and targeting us further.” Colt said.

‘Something needs to be done about this’

Thick ‘N’ Juicy has hosted some of the country’s most memorable queer events, supporting countless performers, dancers, DJs, and artists with people travelling across the country to attend.

They will continue to empower a community with every beat drop, but the current Meta suspension has left the team frustrated.

“Something needs to be done about this,” Shafaati said, “THICK ‘N’ JUICY is a body positive, queer intimacy positive and age positive event.”

“We proudly bring not only something to communities that don’t always have it, but a sense of hope as well.”

Until their accounts are reinstated, THICK ‘N’ JUICY can be found on Facebook, X/Twitter and Bluesky.

You can find out about THICK ‘N’ JUICY’s upcoming events natiowide here.