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Imagine.... 1979 ,I'm a shy 19 yr old, still in the closet, my sister-in-law turns me on to Disco music and she wants to take me to a Gay Disco in Houston. The "Old Plantation". I am eagerly awaiting the Disco on the 45 minute drive there. Of course Disco is blaring from the FM radio. We get there, what sticks in my mind is walking through the place and I see 2 guys in the corner kissing, colored lights swirling everywhere and hearing the whistle from Donna Summers "Bad Girls" tune. The next song that came out was Foxy's "Hot Number". Everyone went crazy. Oh man, just wish i could just relive that 1 night over again. So young and so innocent....When the Music was just so right for me. Oh well, got my awesome memories though!!
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Talk'in bout' dissimilar menagerie :o Disco!....Houston Texas!....Gay Club! :-? ......The Plantation!(yeee haa) :-? .....which one don't belong :o
No seriously "pepperdancer1".......not meaning to come off as iconclastic....but your senario/and paradigm of Disco nostagia reeps with homosexuality.......of which is partly the reason why Disco became driven down by anti-gay malapropos wise-cracking and recidivistic images.
SuperD(motordetroit) 8)
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Hey Super D 8)
Well speaking as a breeder who received an honary gay degree here :D , I will have to say there were a lot of gay clubs. That's not to say there weren't a lot of straight ones as well. What I'm saying is the presence of both is not mutually exclusive.
My first gay club exposure was in Boston at a club called Chaps. This was while I was on my way to a straight club, Kix.
As for the anti-gay stuff, most of it was from the 2 left feet crowd. These guys also tended to be racist and liked their women (when they could find one) barefoot and subserviant. I always found it ironic that these guys would rather get drunk with a bunch of other guys than go to a club with gorgeous women, but they're not gay :roll:
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pepper1dancer
Nice to share such a nice personal memory with us. I can almost feel how you felt.
My 1st real and strongest "Disco club memory" was 1978 in Acapulco, on a very fashionable Disco with a lot of jet set and gay people (I wasn't one of them), don't remember it's name, its just after midnight, smoke, mirror balls and tons of glittering confetti. The pumping discomusic fades out, and in fades the soft intro of La vie en rose. Through the smoke comes Grace Jones and starts singing. It's Magic....
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Hey pepper1dancer,
I know how you feel. My first club experience wasn't as innocent but just as nice. A friend took me to Better Days in mid-town Manhattan way back in (my gawd!) late 1973 or early 1974. I had been hangin' out in a couple of gay bars but this was my first CLUB. Darkly lit, huge circular bar in one room and bigger dancefloor off in another. Tee Scott was playing (I hadn't met him yet). I remember looking around and seeing all these men hugging, kissing, dancing. 7th Heaven it was. :)
I wasn't really paying attention to the music until Tee changed the set from fast to slow. He put on one of my favorite ballads at the time: "Coldest Days of My Life" by The Chi-Lites. The lights on the dancefloor went way down and this guy came over and asked me to dance. Being a new-bee I panicked and said, "No, thanks", but the smile is still on my face from that night. My first time dancing with men in a place filled with only men and nobody giving a ****. Free, Black, Gay and over 21. Life was damn good! :lol:
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Timothy's Too Framingham, Massachusetts June 1974.
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Originally Written by NickNack
No Disrespect "Nick Nack", please don't confuse African(Black) and Gay ma' Bro'tha! Homosexuality in the body of the universal concept which its origin are of African decent mentions no proof of a gay concept. Gay life is a"Free, Black, and Gay"
progressive moderness life style which I respect your choice 100%......but which has nothing to do with the struggles of Black Pyscology and Autonomy.
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None taken, and perhaps you should check yourself because No How, No Way, am I confused. As I didn't choose to be born Black, I didn't choose to be homosexual. My choice of those three adjectives wasn't a statement about any 'gay concept' :-? or reference to 'life struggles' :roll: . It's me, Brother, take it or leave it.
And I AM NOT going to **** up this guy's thread continuing a discussion that doesn't belong here so, like the original Emotions, "Baby, I'm Through". :)
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Not wishing to sound like a lonely-heart(!)... I'm a 31 year old white guy from Nottingham... I feel a far cry from Black/gay 70s-80s NYC. I often feel I grew up in the wrong decade! Disco got a bad rap at the time, but hey, when has the real quality music ever been the most popular?
Disco is pure, quality music and it's about time people realised it!
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And I AM NOT going to **** up this guy's thread continuing a discussion that doesn't belong here so, like the original Emotions, "Baby, I'm Through". :)[/quote]
Dig Dat "NickNack" :-? ....... I can clearly feel your disdainment by your obtusive use of the temesis f _ _ K and your derisivness of my treatise of African Origin. You are definitely entrenched in the western approach of knowledge to your belief :cry: ......but remember it is vital that we at ALL times asses the situation of our African American brothers within an historical an spiritually sound perspective.
I will say you have go taste in music, Emotions. "Baby, Im Through".....oh yeah.....thanks for your opinion.
Back to the music!!!!!
Love and Peace ma' bro'tha
Super D(motordetroit) 8)
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Since this topic came up I've been trying to remember if it was The Skycap in Hartford Connecticat or Kix in Boston. Either way it was 1978. Prior to that it was disco parties held in places like the VFW.
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A club called Sundown in Wells Street in London's West End in 1977. I was hooked the moment I heard Roy Ayers' Running Away.
The best nights though were to be had a year later at places called Legends, The New Embassy Club & Maunkberry's. Fantastic DJing, all the celebs in London & very hot women!! 8) :P I naturally only went for the music!
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It was January 1978, and I snuck-in (of course, I was under age) to the Magic Garden in Atlanta, GA. As I walked-in the trendy Disco, the first snippet of lyric that I heard was the ultra-catchy, "...once upon a time". The very next day, I ran to the record store and found a LP entitled "Once Upon a Time" by a vocalist known for her Disco repertoire. I rushed home and played the Donna Summer album, realizing that I heard Side One in its entirety the previous night at the Magic Garden.
I instantly fell in love with Disco music, and the affair has lasted until this very day.
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This is a wonderful thread. Please , 8) everyone 8) contribute .
Let's hear these fascinating stories we all have ..... :D :D :D
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Acetate [Level 1]
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My first time dancing with men in a place filled with only men and nobody giving a ****. Free, Black, Gay and over 21. Life was damn good! :lol:No Disrespect "Nick Nack", please don't confuse African(Black) and Gay ma' Bro'tha! Homosexuality in the body of the universal concept which its origin are of African decent mentions no proof of a gay concept. [/quote]"Free, Black, and Gay"
Gay life is a progressive moderness life style which I respect your choice 100%......but which has nothing to do with the struggles of Black Pyscology and Autonomy.[/quote]
This comment seems a bit gratuitious. As a 46 yr old former drag queen, who is gay of African decent, I can tell you the drivel fed to you by Mr. Farakhan that homosexuality is a result of "white" influence is bull! If homosexuals in Africa weren't so oppressed and burned at the stake for even suggesting this as a viable orientation then maybe the reality would be understood that we are in fact everywhere!
Please don't be so defensive, we are not this threat the right wants you to believe. I feel NickNack's quote. Just think of it as more women available to you.
Gay life is not a "progressive modern life" as you put it, that one "chooses"....if that were the case, no one would choose it...trust me. Just as no one would choose to be black 100 years ago. Long before slavery the gays did exist.
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