That claim might sound boastful taken on its own, but speaking to DePino at length, it’s clear the LGBTQ dance scene pioneer maintains, if anything, a humble astonishment about the indelible impact of his life. “They weren’t places that held thousands of people on a weekday. “Prior to that, little clubs were open during the week, but they were basically bars with tiny little dancefloors,” DePino recalls. And that’s exactly what an illuminating exhibit at the New York Historical Society, Stonewall at 50, is celebrating this year (with parts of the exhibit running through Dec. In the face of outright hostility or, at best, indifference from the wider populace, DePino helped solidify a place for New York City’s LGBTQ population to not just belong but find ecstatic release: the dancefloor.
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