Tap Dancg On Th Ice (w/ Imani Barbar) The Roxane Gay Agenda podst

Contents:

• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• “DANCG IS GAY”
• HOW A GROUP OF GAY MALE BALLET DANCERS IS RETHKG MASCULY

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

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Perhaps he is nng an old tape om adolcence about dancg beg gay. No, this is about the ballero — my word for him — I met and what he reprented to a lonely gay kid Southern California 1984, a kid who had never before met another gay person. Somethg about his movement told me he was gay, and I felt he was dancg not only for himself but for me.

“DANCG IS GAY”

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HOW A GROUP OF GAY MALE BALLET DANCERS IS RETHKG MASCULY

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