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Photo: The Tea Dance Est. History of the Gay Tea Dances — These were events organized on Sunday afternoons in the homosexual community, originating in New York in the s and s. The original dances included tea service. They were a place for singles to meet. The name alludes to traditional tea dances of the English countryside.

It was illegal through the mids for bars in New York to sell alcohol to people known to be gay, and New York City police would conduct raids on establishments catering to them. Hence, gay men gay the area began to hold tea dances outside the city as an alternative venue for meetings. Serving tea rather than alcohol made them more acceptable and less law-defying.

Because they were held in the afternoon, attendees could catch a ferry and return home and be ready to work on Tea morning. Tea dances spread beyond New York and lasted into the s gay beyond, regularly taking place in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Provincetown, and Los Angeles and San Francisco, among other cities.

As homosexuality became more accepted and legally protected, the tea dances were subsumed into nighttime club events such as circuit parties. All information, photos, videos, graphics, artifacts, etc. All rights reserved. Any improper use of such Intellectual Property will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

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