A Brief History Of The Influence Of Gay Dance | Nex Rad

Contents:

• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• BT OF GAY DANCE, VOL. 1
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE INFLUENCE OF GAY DANCE
• THE RISE OF ELECTRONIC GAY DANCE MIC

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

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BT OF GAY DANCE, VOL. 1

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE INFLUENCE OF GAY DANCE

Group, Bronski Beat, released a gay anthem lled “Smalltown Boy” as the first sgle off their but album The Age of Consent. Unlike Queen, all three members of Bronski Beat were openly gay and their songs reflected this as well.

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Sure, RuPl had already broken before this song and movie (see our number one song) and the mid-’90s were surprisgly gay-iendly — To Wong Foo was sandwiched between the release of two other celebrated and succsful mastream LGBTQ films, The Adventur of Priscilla, Queen of the Dert 1994 and The Birdge 1996. And the song is still performed today by drag queens gay bars across the untry. Although only reached number 46 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, was a number one h on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play, large part bee so many gay men loved the song — after all, was fun, sexy, danceable and mpy.

THE RISE OF ELECTRONIC GAY DANCE MIC

Sce s release 1982, the song’s legacy has solidified s stat as a gay anthem. Charts after a Facebook mpaign was lnched to get the song back on the charts rponse to a polician who blamed floodg and adverse weather on gay marriage.

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1990 was the year that the unrground gay ball scene sort of went mastream, thanks large part to this Billboard Hot 100 number one h om one of the most famo artists the world at the time. For those unfaiar, the New York Cy ball scene was an LGBTQ subculture where different ho — mostly Black and Lat gay, bi, lbian and trans people — walked (or peted) for trophi tegori such as Face, Body, Butch Queen Realns, Femme Queen Realns, miscellaneo drag and Vogueg. In addn to Jose and Luis, Madonna st five other male dancers for the tour and “Vogue” vio (four of them were gay and one of them straight).