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MEET KIKI, AN EXCG NEW GAY BAR REPLACG A PAIR OF SHUTTERED SHAW DIV

Younger members of the Hoe and Ball Communy (HBC) have created an emergg social scene lled "Kiki" that has shared elements wh the HBC. Given the growg populary of the Kiki scene urban muni wh large numbers of Black gay, bisexual, and transgenr (GBT) adolcents and emergi … * gay kiki dance *

Though data are sparse, studi have found that when gay teens e out to their fay, about a quarter are kicked out, and a third are asslted by parents or regivers. A small group of activists—cludg lears of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, and fluential teens and young adults—helped to pneer the kiki scene, which borrows om the legacy of tradnal ballroom culture but sists on a youth-foced learship and cultural inty. “I was once a dark place, ” Zay says, thkg back to his time as a prsed gay boy livg Virgia.

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Like many margalized groups, members of the kiki scene e their own lgo—sometim lled "gaybonics" by soclogists—and the word cunt is nsired high praise.

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Acrdg to Twiggy Pucci Garçon, the mother of the Hoe of Pucci, an artist, and an activist, the high fectn rat reflect ep srs flicted by homophobia and transphobia.

Before Zay moved to New York 2011, he was an anx gay teenager livg Virgia who had jt been diagnosed wh HIV. He effectively supported his hoe members through their difficulti, havg experienced his own share of problems wh racism, homophobia, health problems, and homelsns.

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One of s first known was the 1930s, when kiki was gay slang for a gay male who was fortable beg eher passive or active durg sex. By the 1940–1950s, kiki was extend to a gay woman who “swched” between the genr inti of “butch” or “fem, ” or women who did not intify wh eher inty the lbian muny.

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For example, mothers uld have a “mom kiki, ” jt as a group of gay iends uld also have a kiki after dner.

Kiki is different om kaikai, which tradnally refers to two drag queens havg sex wh one another but n also mean terurse between any two gay men. ” However, kiki is often specifilly applied to a group of gay men who are lghg and jokg wh each other.

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