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It's episode 85! We are rounding out our celebration of Pride month by going back to the 19th century, four years after the end of the American Civil War, to attend the earliest drag balls in Harlem, New York.
Over time, these balls turned into the house ballroom culture and the dance competitions that birthed voguing. After the break, KT takes us through time and around the world to look at the practices around the summer solstice in different cultures.
*~*~*~*~*~ The Socials and Patreon! Patreon-- The Best Buds Club! Instagram - @HightailingHistory TikTok- @HightailingHistoryPod Facebook -Hightailing Through History or @HightailingHistory YouTube- Hightailing Through History [email protected] *~*~*~*~* Source Materials-- Drag Balls and Voguing-- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-first-self-proclaimed-drag-queen-was-a-formerly-enslaved-man-180982311/
https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/brief-history-voguing
https://time.com/5941822/ballroom-voguing-queer-black-culture-renaissance/
https://www.history.com/news/drag-balls-house-ballroom-voguing
chromeextension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://ezratemko.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/A-history-of-drag-balls-houses-and-the-culture-of-voguing.pdf
https://www.historyhit.com/culture/the-history-of-drag-balls/
https://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/tgi-bios/willi-ninja
Summer Solstice-- https://www.history.com/topics/natural-disasters-and-environment/history-of-summer-solstice
~*~*~*~*~* Intro/outro music: "Loopster" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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