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We’re so excited to announce the iconic, the incomparable Jon Ali will be this year’s Hamptons Tea Dance DJ!
NYC-based tastemaker Jon Ali is a longtime music journalist who has interviewed some of the best acts in music like Lady Gaga, Robyn, JoJo, Little Mix, Dua Lipa, Jazmine Sullivan and the Queen of Pop herself, Madonna. He’s notably known for his work in highlighting gender non-conforming musicians with his monthly playlists such as Queer Necessities and Press Play. Jon Ali is a celebrated, Glam Award-winning Foremost Club DJ and event producer in queer nightlife all around New York City with his various artist tributes and genre-bending dance nights.
Join us as we jam out to Jon Ali’s tunes at this year’s tea dance.
This year, the incredible Bella Noche will be hosting our drag story hour!
Bella Noche, New York’s premiere mermaid drag queen, lures onlookers in with her fantastical spark of tint, creativity and charisma. A staple of the Fresh York City and Distant Island drag scenes, as well as a chief in LGBTQ+ community programs such as Drag Story Hour, Bella is a queen for all audiences who
Today, some LGBTQ millennials want more inclusive spaces that don’t involve alcohol or a gyrate floor, while others are bringing assist queer nightlife as iconic queer spaces close in major cities. As a queer woman who loves to gyrate until my confront sweats off but also enjoys a 10:30 PM bedtime, I’m at a crossroads on where I’m supposed to hang out.
Access the Sunday tea dance, an almost-lost tradition LGBTQ people adapted as a time to love each other’s firm before going endorse to work on Monday. On sdelayed afternoons and into the early evenings, revelers can like a cocktail and a spin on the dance floor—usually to deep cuts of disco—and proceed to sleep at 10 without bringing their hangover to work the next day. Cezanne Alam, a 30-year-old married banking professional living in Brooklyn, went to his first tea dance several years ago and loved hanging out with people in person versus online, sidestepping photo filters and meeting people late at evening.
“Being 30 years old, I grew up in the gay tradition that’s predominantly very web, Internet-based [with] Grindr, Scruff, those types of applications to meet other gay men and not face-to-face interactions, which is very different from wha
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Photo:The Tea Sway Est. 1966 – Fire Island & Pines Historical Society
The Raven Resort was a well-liked Gay destination in New Hope PA from 1979 to 2019
Their Sunday T-dances were famous for a miniature town in PA.
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History of the Gay Tea Dances – These were events organized on Sunday afternoons in the gay community, originating in New York in the 1950s and 1960s. The first dances included tea service. They were a place for singles to join. The name alludes to traditional tea dances of the English countryside.
It was illegal through the mid-1960s for bars in New York to sell alcohol to people known to be gay, and New York Capital police would deeds raids on establishments catering to them. Hence, gay men in the area began to keep tea dances outside the city as an alternative venue for meetings. In New York, these generally took place on Fire Island, in Cherry Grove and the Pines, on Sunday afternoons. Serving tea rather than alcohol made them more acceptable and less law-defying. Because they were
Tea dance, often abreviated as just "tea", is a term for "happy hour" used among men and women in the homosexual community. Not necessarily just one hour.
The term can also be qualified by Kight" and "low" to qualify the time of day it occurs. Low tea typically takes place earlier in the evening. High tea is later. And in some larger gay resorts, such as Conflagration Island, there is even mid-tea which takes place between the two.
On his way to the tea dance, Jason was very concerned that he would dash into the troll he slept with the night before.
Steven always drinks too much at elevated tea. His friends are sleepy of watching him puke in the harbor.
by River1 September 10, 2007
A homosexual who not only supports the American Republican party (i.e. a Log Cabin Republican, c.f.) but the radical Tea Party extremists, their candidates and policies, therein. Portmanteau of Tea Partier and Tea Dance, a mainly East Coast phenomenon of Lgbtq+ nightclub dances held in the late afternoon, at teatime.
Aric: I fully support what the Governor has done to Public Employee Unions. Oh, and this is my, ahem, room-mate, Jared. We came to the costume party a