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Gino's II

1123 Vine St, Los Angeles, CA 90038
Nightclub
1976 1985
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Gino's: (Teenie-boppers) (Disco) (D) (No booze) (AH)

All ages club in Hollywood for all sexualities.


Punking is a street dance from the underground gay community of Los Angeles that was developed in the early 1970s. The term punking was coined by the DJ at Ginos II and punking originator Michael Angelo Harris, who used the word punk as a form of empowerment to name what he and the collective group of men that were developing and creating in underground gay clubs such as Paradise Ballroom, Ginos, and Ginos II.[1] Once the dance developed further, the originators used the word 'whack' (to strike with force or a sharp blow) borrowed from the onomatapoeia of the 1960s TV series Batman, to describe how they were executing their movement. The terms "punk", "pose", "whacking," "waacking," and "whack" became their way of loosely explaining the dance to outsiders who were interested in the dance they were developing. [Punking, Wikipedia]

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