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DANCE PRI: THE GAY ORIGS OF DANCE MIC
“Straight people were clumsy and had no rhythm, whereas gay men were right on.
Manco’s crowd, which clud many gay men of lor, bellowed out the chos, refigurg the song’s addrsee as a new kd of girl.South Shore Commissn, ‘Free Man’ (1975)D.J.-led dance spac that were exclive to gay men — ually whe, middle-class gay men — started to open Manhattan late 1972.
It helped that the mixer Tom Moulton advertently epened the female voice when he slowed down the origal for his extend dis mix.Valento, ‘I Was Born This Way’ (1975)The first rerd to feature lyrics about beg an out-and-proud gay man me om the mil performer Charl “Valento” Harris, who released “I Was Born This Way” as an apparently one-off release on Gaiee. “I’m happy, I’m reee and I’m gay,” the sger hollers over soulful stmentatn.