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Contents:
- BACK TO THE ’90S AND THE GAY UNRGROUND BALLROOM CULTURE OF NEW YORK
- THE HISTORY OF GAY NIGHTLIFE NEW YORK CY
- GAY NEW YORK CY
BACK TO THE ’90S AND THE GAY UNRGROUND BALLROOM CULTURE OF NEW YORK
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Wh their groundbreakg mil dramaPose, FX and Ryan Murphy attempt to explore what life was like for gay, trans, and genr non-nformg dividuals New York’s ballroom muny the mid-1980s, before the culture crossed over to the mastream, as facilated and appropriated by, among others, Madonna’s “Vogue” and Jennie Livgston’s Paris Is Burng. Gee Chncey lls this the difitn of “the differenc between the public styl of middle-class and workg-class gay men” his book, Gay New York: Genr, Urban Culture, and the Makg of the Gay Male World.
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THE HISTORY OF GAY NIGHTLIFE NEW YORK CY
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