The Forgotten Black and Queer History of House Music - Beyond the Scenes
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
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The Black Queer Aesthetic and Community
I think it's important to very much think of a black queer aesthetic and queer community as very distinct from a white queer community. So that's why the inclusion of all sorts of different people was so possible within these black queer safe spaces where they might not have been in white gay spaces. I remember when House came on the scene because what was big back in those days is kind of like what we now call freestyle, but you can call it electro. And then once we start getting like Marshall Jefferson's House Music Anthem with the pianos and all this kind of stuff, it was like somebody switched a light switch.
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