Tea dance (gay event)

Tea dances are events organized on Sunday afternoons in the US gay community, originating in New York in the 1950s and 1960s.[1] The original dances included tea service.[2] They were a place for singles to meet.[3] The name alludes to traditional tea dances of the English countryside.[4]

  1. ^ "Tea Dance Isn't What You Think—It's Actually Way Cooler". Cincinnati Refined. Sinclair Broadcast Group. 2018-07-10. Retrieved 2021-03-24.
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  3. ^ "StackPath". citybeat.com. Retrieved 2021-03-24.
  4. ^ "The Very Gay and Interesting History of the Almost Lost Tradition of the Sunday Tea Dance". Back2Stonewall. 2019-05-26. Retrieved 2020-04-12.