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The women’s rights movement, the Civil Rights Movement, and the gay rights movement were all full swg. Behd velvet rop, blacks, Latos, and wh, women and men, rich and poor, gays and straights were enuraged to wear whatever they wanted, kiss whoever they wanted and — of urse — dance however they wanted.

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“If you don’t have the gays you wouldn’t have the culture, ” Joey Arias, a gay performg artist told the mm. “The gays open the world of eedom. The gays always ph thgs.

DJs at the clubs began playg mic created by gay men, openly sexual women, and black artists. Donna Summer simulated asms songs and the Village People would flg off police uniforms, nstctn hats, and wboy outfs a celebratn of gay culture.

The dis movement, as origally was, end the ’80s, as the AIDS epimic stormed through the gay muny and fear settled over the formerly jubilant clubs. But vtig rema: Velvet rop still part for the chict outf, style mavens still fill gay clubs and paras, and mic trends ntue to transcend race and sexualy. Although the Sanctuary (1969-72) laid claim as the first gay dis, attracted a good number of heteros as well.

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