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SUNDAY TEA DANC, A PROUD GAY TRADN WORTH REVIVG
Have you ever attend a gay tea dance party and want to throw your own? Click through to learn more about which brews, spic, and sugars have to make onto your menu! * tea party gay *
To gay lennials the ia of gog to a bar while light out is unheard of; fact, gog to a gay bar to meet new people and socialize is almost unheard of. But to generatns of gay men ’s what we did, what we looked forward to, where we created Communy. Sadly tea danc, once an tegral part of the Gay Communy, have all but died out.
Our iends at recently posted a terrific article by Will Kohler*, “The Very Gay History of the Almost Lost Tradn of the Sunday Tea Dance.
WHEN THE TEA PARTY WAS GAY
“Gay people, of urse, were still largely unrground the 50s, but was the discreet speakeasi that social (nonpartnered) dancg was evolvg. In the event of a raid, gay men and lbian women would quickly change partners to mixed-upl.