Ball culture
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ball-culture-186-14769177
title:
Ball culture
text:
The Ballroom scene is an African-American and Latino underground LGBTQ+ subculture. Its origins can be found in drag balls of the mid-19th century United States, such as those hosted by William Dorsey Swann, a formerly enslaved Black man in Washington D.C.. By the early 20th century, integrated drag balls were popular in cities such as New York, Chicago, New Orleans, Baltimore, and Philadelphia. In the mid-20th century, as a response to racism in integrated drag spaces, the balls evolved into ho
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Black and Latino LGBT subculture in the United States
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_culture
date created:
2007-01-28T19:02:51Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T06:13:27Z
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