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WATCH: SAME-SEX BALLROOM DANCG AT THE GAY GAM
Same-sex ballroom dancg is one of the most popular sports at the Gay Gam * gay ballroom dancer *
Gail Freedman’s documentary, now playg at the Quad Cema, follows four dancers 2014 as they prepare to pete the ternatnal Gay Gam, which take place every four years.
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It turned out that same-genr-uple dancg was flourishg ci like San Francis and New York, where gay clubs and dance halls were creasgly offerg LGBT-iendly ballroom, salsa and tango class and socials. This gay untry-wtern dance club offers more than jt le dancg, wh lsons that rporate waltz, two-step, swg and more. Gay Ballroom.
Stephanie Higgs, Director of the film "The Gay Marriage Thg", Belmont, MALiz is an exceptnal dance stctor. )Same-sex social dancg has “been around om at least the time that there have been gay clubs, so the 1950s, earlier maybe, or soire Paris, etc., the 1920s and 1930s, ” said Zoe Balfour, an Oakland, Calif.
”Same-sex upl perform on TV shows such as “So You Thk You Can Dance” and “Dancg Wh the Stars, ” while a gay uple, Carole Privou and Petra Zimmermann, peted at the prtig Blackpool Dance Ftival England, May.