Tyrone "The Bone" Proctor was one of the origal “Soul Tra” dancers who brought waackg om unrground L.A. gay clubs to the mastream.
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"It was a ll of urgency and I me to his home immediately, " the younger Corneli told Gayle Kg on Thursday's edn of CBS This Morng. Dance craze waackg, which grew om lol unrground gay clubs to a mastream, global dance phenomenon. ’s gay clubs, like the Paradise Ballroom and the Gas Statn, where Proctor learned to dis mic, the improvisatnal dance form created by Black and Lato muni rporat jazz, martial arts, rapid arm movements and pos.
Waackg is also known as “punkg, ” which was a way to reclaim a rogatory term for gay men durg the time. ” As a gay Black man the 1970s, Proctor had to hi who he was public.
“He would do that pecially when he teach his kids to let the kids know that gay culture is very important. 'Blacks had always had an uneasy relatnship wh Clark, ' claims a shockg new expose'Clark's reps sent a threateng letter but his takeover attempt failed Soul tra troduced black gay culture to the mass wh many gay dancersCorneli tried to disurage hook-ups between the dancers and stars--but he wasn't always succsful Published: 15:36 BST, 21 March 2014 | Updated: 22:38 BST, 21 March 2014 Dick Clark, who domated TV for teens wh his lily-whe Amerin Bandstand, tried to have Don Corneli’ all-black Soul Tra taken off the air--and replaced wh his own knockoff, Soul Tra, the brachild of producer and host Corneli, buted 1971 and ran for 35 years. Barry Whe followed, Al Green, Marv Gaye, Smokey Robson, Jermae Jackson, Stevie Wonr, Patti LaBelle, Harold Melv and the Blue Not, the Spners…even Elton John and David Bowie asked to be on the hottt and sexit dance show on went on behd the scen of the Saturday morng show that Corneli nsired a black Amerin Bandstand was so hot, rerdg artists asked to be on the show so they uld get close to the dancers.