Gays dancing

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These dance forms are celebrated for their dynamic expression, emotional depth, and the empowerment they provide to individuals.

Cultural Roots

Emerging from the heart of the LGBTQ+ community, these dance styles have played a significant role in self-expression, community solidarity, and cultural storytelling, reflecting the community's resilience and vibrancy.

Waacking/Punking

Known for its expressive arm movements and dramatic poses, Waacking/Punking originated from the LGBTQ+ clubs of Los Angeles in the 1970s.

Man Wearing Hydrating Face

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2W2HHRH–Gay couple dancing at home

2W80A30–Happy dance of joyful carefree African American LGBTQ man in headphones on Mediterranean sea coast. Two men are having fun in the bedroom, dancing

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This style celebrates the diversity of gender expression and the artistry of movement.

Artistic Expression

LGBTQ+ Dance Movements are a canvas for individual and collective storytelling, allowing dancers to express complex narratives about identity, society, and freedom through their bodies.

Community and Solidarity

These dance forms have fostered tight-knit communities where support, acceptance, and mutual respect are paramount.

Voguing is not just a dance but a powerful form of self-expression and community identity.

Ballroom/Ball Culture Dance

Distinct from traditional ballroom dance, Ballroom/Ball Culture Dance encompasses styles associated with the LGBTQ+ ballroom scene, celebrated in works like the documentary "Paris is Burning." This category includes various forms of voguing (Old Way, New Way, Vogue Fem) and represents a vibrant community tradition of performance and competition.

Vogue Fem

Vogue Fem is a dynamic evolution within the voguing scene, characterized by fluid, exaggerated feminine movements and dramatic storytelling.

Modern lifestyle and homosexual relationship concept.

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2TPGBWM–Heartwarming slow-motion footage of a diverse gay couple in love, with an African curly-haired male and his Caucasian homosexual partner dancing

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Dance, friendship, lifestyle, fun, indoors

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Voguing

With its roots in the Harlem ballroom scene, Voguing is a stylized dance form involving poses reminiscent of Vogue magazine, integrated with elements of Egyptian hieroglyphs and modern dance.

Denied space and recognition in the white drag scene, together they formed houses and became each other’s support and family.Today, in Paris, that spirit lives on:

Many gay, black and Arab youths — especially those from Paris' less affluent and religiously conservative suburbs — see Vogue dance events as safe places in which their racial and sexual identities can be fully expressed without fear of reprisals.