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Article: Gay men & dance: what's the connection.(SEX & DANCE)
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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When he was 7 years old, future choreographer Tere O'Connor donned a white V-neck tennis sweater, a pair of very short shorts, and his father's trout fishing boots and sashayed down the street of his blue-collar neighborhood in Webster, New York. That inspired act of creativity was probably his first choreographed performance. "It was like a white suburban Grace Jones look," says O'Connor. "I took it very seriously. I thought I was a real charmer."
The stereotype of male dancers automatically being gay--not to mention the myth that dancing makes you queer--is a concept that Americans, in particular, love to embrace, as if to protect their own macho image. And ...
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