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01Music · Politics · Society · Party
Between Song to Romania, Electrecord, the “de-pollution” campaign and the tape recorded at a wedding, the state tried to manufacture folklore without sweat. The audience asked for an encore.
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02Gay life · Politics · Technology · Society
In 1937, a satirical guide and a secret state map described the same London toilets. One helped men find each other. The other helped the police catch them.
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03Gay life · Politics · Party · Music
In 1971, at 99 Wooster Street, a former firehouse became a club, political headquarters and cashier’s desk for gay liberation. Admission was about two dollars. The profits funded the revolution.
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04Five centuries of enslavement, four instruments with foreign passports, a state orchestra and one indecently simple question: who gets credit for the national sound?
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05Gay life · Party · Politics · Travel
It is just over 70 metres long. Named after noise, ideologically misunderstood by Franco and filled with generations who came here to be a little freer.
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