Gay history is Black history.
Contents:
- WORKG-CLASS BLACK AND BROWN TRANS BALLROOM SCENE BIRTHED NTEMPORARY GAY CULTURE
- BEG BLACK AND GAY THE USA: INTERVIEW WH DANCER DIEGO MUGLER
WORKG-CLASS BLACK AND BROWN TRANS BALLROOM SCENE BIRTHED NTEMPORARY GAY CULTURE
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BEG BLACK AND GAY THE USA: INTERVIEW WH DANCER DIEGO MUGLER
“It is imperative that we form a unified fellowship of brothers and sisters, pecially our trans sisters, battlg the te enemi of our opprsed muni, which also clu racism, HIV, homophobia, discrimatn and other social misfortun, ” Davis add. Bowman troduced Richard LaBoy, an Ao-Lato out gay man to the ballroom scene when LaBoy was 10th gra at Philalphia’s Central High School. … Ballroom started the early ‘70s bee a lot of people of lor specifilly om muni and ci were kicked out of their hom, like me, for beg gay, ” said LaBoy, now 35.