Club Scum, a monthly party that embrac punk and drag, is a distillatn of the ge-iendly gay unrground on the Eastsi.
Contents:
- BACK TO THE ’90S AND THE GAY UNRGROUND BALLROOM CULTURE OF NEW YORK
- A PEEK UNR THE TOWEL: INSI THE 500-YEAR HISTORY OF GAY BATHHO
- ‘THE LEGEND OF THE UNRGROUND’ REVIEW: GAY ACTIVISM NIGERIA
BACK TO THE ’90S AND THE GAY UNRGROUND BALLROOM CULTURE OF NEW YORK
* underground gay culture *
Ballroom is an unrground LGBTQ subculture which participants, who are largely Black or Latx trans people and gay men, pete for priz, trophi, tl — thk “legend” and “in” — or sh at events known as balls. “It is imperative that we form a unified fellowship of brothers and sisters, pecially our trans sisters, battlg the te enemi of our opprsed muni, which also clu racism, HIV, homophobia, discrimatn and other social misfortun, ” Davis add. Bowman troduced Richard LaBoy, an Ao-Lato out gay man to the ballroom scene when LaBoy was 10th gra at Philalphia’s Central High School.
… Ballroom started the early ‘70s bee a lot of people of lor specifilly om muni and ci were kicked out of their hom, like me, for beg gay, ” said LaBoy, now 35.
A PEEK UNR THE TOWEL: INSI THE 500-YEAR HISTORY OF GAY BATHHO
Billy Porter also beme the first out gay Black man to w an Emmy the outstandg lead actor a drama seri tegory for his role the show.
‘THE LEGEND OF THE UNRGROUND’ REVIEW: GAY ACTIVISM NIGERIA
Have you heard about New York’s ‘gay unrground ballroom’ culture the 1900s?