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Contents:
- SUNDAY TEA DANC, A PROUD GAY TRADN WORTH REVIVG
- FUN GAY TEA TIME
- IS TEA JT GAY COFFEE?
- WHY IS ICED COFFEE SO GAY?
SUNDAY TEA DANC, A PROUD GAY TRADN WORTH REVIVG
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To gay lennials the ia of gog to a bar while light out is unheard of; fact, gog to a gay bar to meet new people and socialize is almost unheard of.
FUN GAY TEA TIME
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But to generatns of gay men ’s what we did, what we looked forward to, where we created Communy. Sadly tea danc, once an tegral part of the Gay Communy, have all but died out. Our iends at recently posted a terrific article by Will Kohler*, “The Very Gay History of the Almost Lost Tradn of the Sunday Tea Dance.
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IS TEA JT GAY COFFEE?
GQ vtigat the reasons why a simple iced ffee—a drk for all seasons, when you thk about —is so gay. * gay community tea *
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WHY IS ICED COFFEE SO GAY?
By the late 60s, gay men had tablished the Fire Island Cherry Grove and also the more subdued and “closeted” P (off of Long Island, New York) as a summer rort of sorts. It was illegal at that time for bars to ‘knowgly sell alhol to homosexuals’ and bis many of the venu there were not licensed as ‘night clubs’ or to sell alhol. *Will Kohler is a noted LGBT historian, wrer, blogger and owner of A longtime gay activist, Will fought on the ont l of the AIDS epimic wh ACT-UP and ntu fightg today for LGBT acceptance and full equaly.
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