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  [Club LaRay Talent Show (December 9, 1986)]

  Arts & Culture, LGBTQIA, Performance

  A drag competition at Chicago music and performance venue Club LaRay, followed by a DJ set featuring early House music with footage of club patrons dancing.

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  Sons of Sappho 1995 Reunion

  Black, Chicago, Communities, LGBTQIA

  The Sons of Sappho (later known as the Sappho Socialites), founded by Yvonne Hudson and Ernestine Medley in 1965, was a group of black lesbians in the South Side of Chicago, dedicated to celebrating their identities and forming community. This video features footage from a 1995 reunion of the Sons of Sappho, including video of the event and interviews with its members.

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  St. Valentine’s Day Massacre Ball with the House of Avant Garde

  Black, Chicago, Communities, LGBTQIA

  This video contains footage from the runway of a voguing ball in the tradition of the Ballroom Scene, hosted by the House of Avant Garde, a Chicago-based space highlighting Black and queer performers.

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  Message to the Grassroots: Henry Peco Justice Committee Part 1 of 2

  Black, Communities

  An episode of Message to the Grassroots, a cable access talk show produced & hosted by by Michael Zinzun from 1988-1998 at Pasadena Community Access Corporation, which is now Pasadena Media.

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  Message to the Grassroots: Malcolm X… Human Rights… The Black Experience Continues, Pt 2

  Black, Communities

  An episode of Message to the Grassroots, a cable access talk show produced & hosted by Michael Zinzun from 1988-1998 at Pasadena Community Access Corporation, which is now Pasadena Media.

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  [Michael Mixxin Moor raw #1: at home]

  Tom Weinberg

  Tom Weinberg goes to Los Angeles to interview hip hop pioneer Michael Mixxin Moor. Audio levels are erratic. Much of the talk is concerned with the recent U.S. military intervention in Somalia. There are spots within the tape where the sounds cuts out almost completely.

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  [Michael Mixxin Moor raw #2: at KCRW #1]

  Viewers Choice

  Raw tape with hip hop pioneer Michael Mixxin Moor at radio station KCRW for his show “The Militant Mastermixx.” Audio levels are erratic.

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  [Michael Mixxin Moor raw #3: at KCRW #2]

  Tom Weinberg

  Raw tape with hip hop pioneer Michael Mixxin Moor at radio station KCRW for his show “The Militant Mastermixx.”