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The ’70s Queer Disco Scene: Embracing self-expression and empowerment of the marginalised
Throughout history, music’s significance has morphed contextually alongside cultural shifts, such as hip-hop giving a voice to black communities during the ’90s in Brooklyn, and rock ‘n’ roll during the sexual revolution in the 1960s. In these instances, music was a voice of dominance against an power. It was significant as a cultural unifier, a social glue for the movements of the marginalised.
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We’ve decided to change the clock endorse half a century. We wanted to take a observe at a genre that grew alongside issues of social politics, gender individuality, and popular melody development, shaped by some popular and obscure artists. The queer disco scene of the 1970s was, without a doubt, a significant stepping stone in the journey of LGBTQI liberation.
It was a occasion that oversaw the maturing of the musical genre that not only formed a subculture in the urban nightlife scene in the USA – it provided a universal language of self expression and connection on the move floor.
A turning tide
During the 1970s, well-liked music re
LOOKBACK: What gay animation was like in San Francisco in 1976
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- San Francisco's Castro District has been home to LGBTQ people for nearly five decades. The City by the Bay has had a drawn-out history as a place where anything goes. Opening its Golden Gate to a world of diverse culture, viewpoints, and sexual orientation.
VIDEO: 'I'm so delighted I did this': Coming out, growing up at San Francisco Pride
We've been digging through our archives and establish an amazing series to give you a glimpse of gay life here in late 1976. It portrays San Francisco as the gayest city in the country. And now, all these years later, it has become a place where someone like me can be out on TV.
The four part series starts before the rainbow flag was a a symbol for a united community. Before Harvey Milk was elected supervisor, before the White Darkness riots that followed his death, before HIV and AIDS devastated a people, before same-sex marriage was legal.
The language used in this special has evolved over the years. Though the series focuses only queer men, lesbian, attracted to both genders, and transgender people were also fighting their own battles for public acceptance.
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Duke’s LGBTQIA+ history is affluent and varied, but documentation, especially of earlier decades, can be scant in the University Archives. The experiences of students, faculty and staff in decades past were often not documented and sometimes actively hidden due to homophobia and discrimination. Therefore, when we do find perspectives of an earlier day, it’s a treasure. The Gay Morning Star, Duke’s first LGBTQIA+ publication of any kind, is one of those treasures. This once-a-semester newsletter was published by the Duke Queer Alliance between 1973 and 1975.
The Gay Alliance, Duke’s first openly queer trainee group, was recognized and chartered by the trainee government in the drop of 1972. The Chronicle reported on Nov. 15 that “When a motion was made to charter Duke’s gay alliance, laughter broke out among the representatives. ‘The reaction of this crowd shows that it is damn adequately time for this team to be organized,’ [Dave] Audet [T’73; off campus legislator] said in back of the charter. It was approved unanimously.”
The next day, an unsigned editorial in the Chroniclecriticized the conditions in which lgbtq+ students endured at Duke. The students wrote, “In order to adjust to a
While browsing recently through the free back issues of Oz magazine I noticed a guide to gay slang that I didn’t recall seeing before. The underground magazines and newspapers of the 60s and 70s were a lot more tolerant of the nascent gay rights movement than their “straight” (ie: non-freak) counterparts. Oz magazine published pieces about gay rights, notably so in issue 23 which ran an extract from The Homosexual Handbook (1969) by Angelo d’Arcangelo among a couple of other features; the UK’s first gay magazine, Jeremy, advertised regularly in Oz and IT; later issues of Oz carried ads for another gay mag, Follow Up, and there’s a letter in one issue from a gay freak complaining about the state of the few gay pubs in London where the clientele was apparently not freaky enough. (His solution was to try and persuade them all to let go acid.) Arguments which still circulate today, between those who long to assimilate and those who prefer to remain separate from general society, go back a long way.
The gay slang mentor was extracted from The Queens’ Vernacular: A Gay Lexicon by Bruce Rodgers (1942–2009), published in