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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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THE HISTORY OF GAY TEA DANC
*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. The Raven Rort was a popular Gay statn New Hope PA om 1979 to 2019.
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History of the Gay Tea Danc – The were events anized on Sunday afternoons the homosexual muny, origatg New York the 1950s and 1960s. It was illegal through the mid-1960s for bars New York to sell alhol to people known to be gay, and New York Cy police would nduct raids on tablishments terg to them. Hence, gay men the area began to hold tea danc outsi the cy as an alternative venue for meetgs.