Black queer house dance-floor community

CTL-E-0605 · Institution · other · 1977

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

The founding dance floor of Chicago house was Black and Latinx and queer; the Warehouse's membership and the THING zine document a community, not just a crowd. This community is represented in the graph primarily through the Warehouse venue node and THING publication node; this node exists to name the people-network as its own entity.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MUSIC-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MUSIC-001:music-001-node-050; source research type(s): dance_community. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass.

Sources

https://www.chicago.gov/content/dam/city/depts/zlup/Historic_Preservation/Publications/The_Warehouse_Report.pdf (primary source)

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