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Contents:
- THE BETIFUL BLACK GAY HISTORY OF CHIGO HOE’S BIRTH
- THE WAREHOE: THE GAY CLUB WHERE HOE MIC GOT S NAME
- SPECIAL FEATURE: THE GAY DNA OF HOUSE MUSIC
THE BETIFUL BLACK GAY HISTORY OF CHIGO HOE’S BIRTH
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Found as a members-only gay club at 206 South Jefferson Street, The Warehoe me to be the wily-regard birthplace of hoe. Back then, if you were gay, gay-iendly, or different to the stat quo then you were nsired not good enough for the rock movement. It was a bold statement to basilly say ‘We don’t like blacks, the gay muny, or anybody who sympathis wh them and their mic.
THE WAREHOE: THE GAY CLUB WHERE HOE MIC GOT S NAME
But e nighttime, the former factory me to life as a place where young predomantly black and predomantly gay men me to dance an otherwise heavily segregated club scene. Dis was still popular among gay and black clubs, but anti-dis movements, rooted heavily racism and homophobia, arose all across Chigo. Although origally populated by a black, gay majory, Williams was eager to create an open, diversified space.
“The Warehoe was predomantly gay, ” Williams relled. Then, a strange move, which the future will be seen as a se study for reer sabotage, he wrote a homophobic rant on his Facebook page.
SPECIAL FEATURE: THE GAY DNA OF HOUSE MUSIC
The post pared homosexuals to paedophil and referred to the LGBT muny as “another breed”. There might be gay characters Hollyoaks, but ’s not all rabows out there. Electronic mic emerged om a scene that was alternative, diverse and mostly, very, very gay.
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