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About Gay Square Dancing
Do thousands of lesbians and gay men know something you don't?

When you assume of square dancing, you probably verb of hillbillies stomping around in a barn shouting "Do-si-do," blue-haired ladies in silly dresses, and horrible times spent in junior upper school. Well, it ain't like that any more! We don't dance in a barn, we don't wear silly clothes (well, sometimes we do!), and the less said about junior elevated the better!

Lesbian and gay square dancing is one of the hottest fresh social activities in our community. From its start with a few dozen people and a handful of square dance clubs in the early Eighties, it's grown into a phenomenon with thousands of dancers in clubs throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, and even Japan!

Square dancing is the most traditional American folk dance. But we have made it our own, bringing a level of excitement and drive to the gyrate floor that is almost unheard of in the square dance community at large. Square dancing is a amazing way to verb away from the pressures of the day, get a little exerc

The modern television landscape is populated with many LGBTQI+ characters; including in such stalwartly popular shows as Ted Lasso, Elite, Heartstopper, Yellowjackets, House of the Dragon, FBI: Most Wanted, The Walking Dead: World Beyond and Loki. And while shows such as Will & Grace, Glee and Pose were groundbreaking in their inclusion and representation, a look back on the history of television, especially its sitcoms, shows a plethora of characters who in today’s world would be recognized as gay, but in television’s early days, were hidden in their sexuality.

From Jane Hathaway in The Beverly Hillbillies (although, as a woman, she was required to meet at least some of society’s expectations by harboring an unrealistic crush on Jethro) to Uncle Arthur on Bewitched, characters were allowed to showcase behaviors that could be classified as fitting into a gay stereotype but were never allowed to express their personal preferences. Historians have discussed for years the concealed implications of some of these personae but very rare content creators of

JD Vance once wrote that he 'convinced myself that I was gay' when he was a kid

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  • JD Vance wrote in "Hillbilly Elegy" that he once became convinced  he was gay when he was a kid.
  • "The only thing I knew about gay men was that they preferred men to women," he wrote.
  • His grandmother quickly place that notion to rest, asking him: "JD, do you hope to suck dicks?"

According to Sen. JD Vance's best-selling "Hillbilly Elegy," the Ohio senator once told his grandmother that he thought he might be gay.

Vance, now former President Donald Trump's vice presidential nominee, recounted the tale in his autobiography as he discussed his grandmother's relatively tolerant approach when it came to Christian teachings.

In Vance's telling, the episode occurred when he was just a kid. As he wrote:

"I'll never forget the time I convinced myself that I was gay. I was eight or nine, maybe

Onlyoneopenly gay individual has moved on from the set of “The Beverly Hillbillies” to build an outstanding political career in Sacramento, establishing some of the first protections for California’s LGBT community. Founder and CEO, Rich Valenza, is honored to verb this insightful interview in this distinct Huffington Post Gay Voices / “Let Love Define Family®” series for National Adoption Month, with the iconic activist and accomplished politician, Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl.

Rich: I understood that you had a big career as a child actor playing Zelda on the television series “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.” But until I looked at your page, I had no idea the success of your acting career. “Petticoat Junction” and “The Beverly Hillbillies” were family favorites at our house. How did you verb your start in acting?

Supervisor Kuehl: It was quite accidental. One night a guy came around trying to sign up neighborhood kids for tap dancing and singing lessons at the Meglin Studios. A number of kid stars like Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney h