Sunday Tea Danc, a Proud Gay Tradn worth Revivg | theOUTont

Contents:

• SUNDAY TEA DANC, A PROUD GAY TRADN WORTH REVIVG
• TEA DANC (GAY EVENT)
• GAY HISTORY: THE VERY GAY AND INTERTG HISTORY OF THE ALMOST LOST TRADN OF THE SUNDAY TEA DANCE
• THE HISTORY OF GAY TEA DANC
• CCNATI IS REVIVG THE LOST TRADN OF GAY TEA DANC FOR A NEW GENERATN

SUNDAY TEA DANC, A PROUD GAY TRADN WORTH REVIVG

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However the growg gay populatn of the P were not allowed to dance together by law. The Tea Dance has been wrten up var forms here is one:The History of Tea Dance by Will Very Gay History of the Almost Lost Tradn of the Sunday Tea DanceMany gay men unr the age of 30 are totally cluels of almost lost tradn of the Sunday Tea Dance. In the event of a raid, gay men and lbian women would quickly change partners to mixed-upl.

TEA DANC (GAY EVENT)

Eventually, this led to everyone sort of dancg on their 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. Sce there were no lbians around to change partners wh, gay men veloped the “dancg apart” style that clubgoers everywhere now take for 28, 1969…the Stonewall Rts mark the fiery birth of the so-lled “morn gay rights movement”.

GAY HISTORY: THE VERY GAY AND INTERTG HISTORY OF THE ALMOST LOST TRADN OF THE SUNDAY TEA DANCE

Followg (and part perhaps spired by) the ath of gay in Judy Garland, (as the urban legend go) patrons of the Greenwich Village waterg hole The Stonewall Inn fought back agast another a very long le of vlent police raids, eventually barridg the police si the bar and settg off three nights of rtg. The “snapped stiletto heel heard around the world”as some ll is memorated today wh Gay Pri celebratns held around the end of, the tea dance moved om the Fire Island P to Greenwich Village.

THE HISTORY OF GAY TEA DANC

A newly-energized gay muny around Christopher Street embraced the social dancg craze started on Fire Island. While the Fire Island gays tend to be rich upper-class preppi, the downtown gays of Christopher Street and the Village were workg-class and they tend to party at night. Through the 70s, gay men champned the uniform of the workg class — t-shirts and nim — as fashn athetic.

CCNATI IS REVIVG THE LOST TRADN OF GAY TEA DANC FOR A NEW GENERATN

Gays the post-Stonewall era were nscly rebellg agast the effete stereotyp associated wh the manicured, sweater-wearg, tea-drkg gays of the Fire Island set. Gay men still had afternoon/early eveng danc — ually on Sundays, orr to make the most of one’s weekend while still beg able to get up for Monday morng’s downtown gays rejected the term tea dance as beg too effete and opted for the supposedly butcher t-dance, and promoted “t-shirts and nim” as the stume of choice.