The Forgotten Black and Queer History of House Music - Beyond the Scenes
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
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AIDS and Black and Queer Spaces
I feel like part of this also exists on a level that has a lot to do with socioeconomics. I knew growing up 30 DJs, 15 of whom I would easily say could kick my ass into DJ when they were in a battle but you have to get a job. Oftentimes, particularly with black and brown queer people, they were excised from the homes. So they live it on the street. They are trying to cobble together a sense of expression from whatever they can, however they can, whenever they can. That's hard. And then that's also why a lot of the AIDS when it came in, I remember people just disappearing, you know, just not
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