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Contents:
- DANCE PRI: THE GAY ORIGS OF DANCE MIC
- SPECIAL FEATURE: THE GAY DNA OF HOUSE MUSIC
- IT TAK A VILLAGE, PEOPLE: PRERVG SAN FRANCIS'S GAY DIS HISTORY
DANCE PRI: THE GAY ORIGS OF DANCE MIC
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” and Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” the ’70s to Christa Aguilera’s “Betiful, ” Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” and Scissor Sisters’ “Let’s Have a Kiki” the 21st century, mic has helped LGBTQ people to both survive and thrive. LGBTQ Pri is a time for celebratg inty, visibily, and activism for human rights and for rellectg on s roots – om the first march orchtrated by activist Brenda Howard 1970, exactly a year after the Stonewall Uprisg, to early anizatns such as Gay Liberatn Front, STAR (found by Marsha P.
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SPECIAL FEATURE: THE GAY DNA OF HOUSE MUSIC
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IT TAK A VILLAGE, PEOPLE: PRERVG SAN FRANCIS'S GAY DIS HISTORY
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