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Tag: louie ortiz-fonseca

In Gratitude for My Aunt Carmen

growing up, i never believed adults were god. i was always curious about their ways and their secret jokes like…
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Posted on: November 24, 2022 Last updated on: November 24, 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

Songs That Soundtracked the AIDS Crisis: Miquel Brown’s “So Many Men, So Little Time”

“So many men, so little timeHow can I choose,So many men, so little timeHow can I choose” On March 14,…
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Posted on: September 20, 2022 Last updated on: September 20, 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

UNCANNY ALLIANCE

in the early 1990s, there was no shortage of dance groups from new york garnering national notoriety at both the…
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Posted on: June 30, 2022 Last updated on: June 30, 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

For My Mother: “A Day In My Life (Without You)”

I remember the night in the summer of 1991 as I sat on the steps with my two-speaker double cassette…
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Posted on: June 22, 2022 Last updated on: June 22, 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: louie
Ten House Tracks From the 90s that Will Lift Your Spirits the way Beyonce’s “Break My Soul” Does

Ten House Tracks From the 90s that Will Lift Your Spirits the way Beyoncé’s “Break My Soul” Does

if you are up at this time like i am it is probably because you have been dancing in the…
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Posted on: June 21, 2022 Last updated on: July 30, 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

10 Songs Leading the Latin-Freestyle Resurgence

freestyle music has direct ties to the early rise of hip-hop. like hip-hop, the freestyle genre was led by creative…
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Posted on: April 21, 2022 Last updated on: April 23, 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: louie
Janet Jackson

Janet Jackson: A Deep Appreciation Of

i met robert on the very first day of school of the seventh grade in september 1989. i knew as soon…
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Posted on: February 14, 2022 Last updated on: February 14, 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: louie
in the summer of 1988, i had a friend named jacqueline who lived next door from us. she was a…
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Posted on: February 13, 2022 Last updated on: February 13, 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

OAKTOWN’S 357

oaktown’s 357 were one of hip-hop’s most exciting groups of the early 1990s. heir combination of catchy rhymes, dope fashions,…
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Posted on: February 7, 2022 Last updated on: February 7, 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

Louie’s Top 21 Songs of 2021

There were no club night outings or huge parties in 2021 but I still found opportunities to dance and sing…
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Posted on: December 29, 2021 Last updated on: December 30, 2021 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

The Enduring Queer Cheer of Pee-Wee Herman’s Christmas Special

33 years ago this week, one of the wackiest, campiest, and queerest christmas specials premiered on network television– and it…
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Posted on: December 25, 2021 Last updated on: December 25, 2021 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

Remember the RuPaul Show Christmas Special

growing up in the 1980s, tv christmas specials were usually over-the-top variety shows that featured musical numbers and sub-par comedic…
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Posted on: December 18, 2021 Last updated on: December 20, 2021 Comments: 0 Written by: louie
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