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Contents:

• THE ARTISTS ARE PRERVG THE HISTORY OF A DANCE STYLE GAY MEN CREATED ’70S-ERA L.A.
• THE ARTISTS ARE PRERVG THE HISTORY OF A DANCE STYLE GAY MEN CREATED '70S-ERA L.A.
• DANCE PRI: THE GAY ORIGS OF DANCE MIC
• HOW A GROUP OF GAY MALE BALLET DANCERS IS RETHKG MASCULY
• ULTIMATE PRI PLAYLIST: THE 50 BT GAY SONGS
• THE 10 BEST AMSTERDAM GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS AMSTERDAM
• THE ARTISTS ARE PRERVG THE HISTORY OF A DANCE STYLE GAY MEN CREATED ’70S-ERA L.A.
• THE ARTISTS ARE PRERVG THE HISTORY OF A DANCE STYLE GAY MEN CREATED '70S-ERA L.A.

THE ARTISTS ARE PRERVG THE HISTORY OF A DANCE STYLE GAY MEN CREATED ’70S-ERA L.A.

“It wasn’t okay to be gay that era, but waackg was an pe. When gay people would waack, they were kd of like g out of the closet. (Dania Maxwell/Los Angel Tim) Gay men veloped punkg nearly five s ago, while flockg to the safe space of the dance floor.

THE ARTISTS ARE PRERVG THE HISTORY OF A DANCE STYLE GAY MEN CREATED '70S-ERA L.A.

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Manoel had long known he was gay, but was stck by experiencg that for the first time — to the pot where he turned to his iend and said: “I n’t. (Dania Maxwell/Los Angel Tim) The movements also nodd to how they had grown up at a time when beg gay meant not beg “allowed to exprs love, ” Manoel explas.

Punkg, later referred to as whackg, is a street dance om the gay muny of Los Angel veloped the 1970s.

(Dania Maxwell/Los Angel Tim)Gay men veloped punkg nearly five s ago, while flockg to the safe space of the dance floor. Manoel had long known he was gay, but was stck by experiencg that for the first time — to the pot where he turned to his iend and said: "I n’t.

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THE ARTISTS ARE PRERVG THE HISTORY OF A DANCE STYLE GAY MEN CREATED ’70S-ERA L.A.

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THE ARTISTS ARE PRERVG THE HISTORY OF A DANCE STYLE GAY MEN CREATED '70S-ERA L.A.

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