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EL VOGUE: EL BAILE L ULLO GAY QUE REAFIRMA LA INTIDAD LGBTI
There is a dangero myth that queer life did not exist a public way until the 1960’s – the assumptn beg that LGBTQ (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer) intified people were “closeted” isolatn and visibily.
Many of the movement’s lears were openly gay or intified as havg nuanced sexuali cludg Angela Weld Grimké, Cl McKay, Langston Hugh, Wallace Thurman, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Ala Locke, and Richard Bce Nugent among others. Trans, gay and queer nttants would pete for trophi and the reputatn of their ‘hoe fay’ by walkg tegori, cludg Executive Realns or Town & Is Burng, 1990. The mothers or fathers of the ho provid a replacement fay for many the muny who were socially margalised eher by genr, sexualy and/or race, and who turned to each other for the acceptance and safe space of the ballroom scene, which self existed on the g of the wir gay muny of 1980s New York.
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