Hi, I made a public playlist on Spotify called 'Soundtrack for the BLM Movement by Maurice L. Harris'. I added a link to the playlist in the transcription of your blog so that your all followers can listen to your soundtrack. Thank you for sharing
Hi Xzyzst, found this article in the Nation, and next year there will be a publication of a book "The House of Swann", by the same journalist. Printing some fotos today! Big hug, Ju
Today, more than a century after William Swann’s last known ball, the houses of the contemporary ballroom scene maintain the same basic format as the House of Swann’s. The balls feature competitive walking dances with exaggerated pantomime gestures, and they are organized around family-like groups led by “mothers” and “queens.” Strikingly, descriptions of balls from the 1930s are sprinkled with phrases like “strike a pose,” “sashay across the floor,” and “vogue.” Such expressions, now part of mainstream popular culture, are regularly heard on FX’s Pose and VH1’s RuPaul’s Drag Race.
Though the Stonewall uprising of 1969 is often touted as the beginning of the fight for gay liberation, Swann’s courageous example forces us to rethink the history of the movement: when it began, where it came from, and who its leaders were. Coming of age at a time when an entirely new form of freedom and self-determination was developing for African Americans, Swann and his house of butlers, coachmen, and cooks—the first Americans to regularly hold cross-dressing balls and the first to fight for the right to do so—arguably laid the foundations of contemporary queer celebration and protest.
Channing Gerard Joseph, a journalist and historian, was recently awarded a 2019 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant.
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I made a public playlist on Spotify called 'Soundtrack for the BLM Movement by Maurice L. Harris'. I added a link to the playlist in the transcription of your blog so that your all followers can listen to your soundtrack.
Thank you for sharing
found this article in the Nation, and next year there will be a publication of a book "The House of Swann", by the same journalist. Printing some fotos today!
Big hug, Ju
Though the Stonewall uprising of 1969 is often touted as the beginning of the fight for gay liberation, Swann’s courageous example forces us to rethink the history of the movement: when it began, where it came from, and who its leaders were. Coming of age at a time when an entirely new form of freedom and self-determination was developing for African Americans, Swann and his house of butlers, coachmen, and cooks—the first Americans to regularly hold cross-dressing balls and the first to fight for the right to do so—arguably laid the foundations of contemporary queer celebration and protest.
Channing Gerard Joseph, a journalist and historian, was recently awarded a 2019 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant.