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The following is Queer Jitterbugs view of Same Sex Swing on Screen!
 
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You can view these clips and more at Queer Swing Alert's files pages!

More Same Sex swing dancing clips include:

Jazz Dance from the Turn of the Century to 1950-Al Minns and Leon James dance.

Cab Calloway with his big band clip with more Savoy same sex dancers.

http://dancestore.com/movies/girlz.html

Women blow the horn Source - I'm Coming, Virginia Date

Other Video Related Sources:

http://www.swingmovie.com/smdb/default.htm

Natch.Net has Video Clips but it is sometimes hard to download.

http://www.starlightroof.com A list of Big Band Movies is available. Many of the videos include scenes of dancers and Lindy Hoppers in action!

http://www.xs4all.nl/~kaldi/floogees/home/body_mpeg.html

The book "This Thing Called Swing" by Christian Bachelor traces the parallel development of swing music and swing dancing with a list of dance films. Starlight Roof Classic American Music and Video 815 Fair Oaks Ave., S. Pasadena, CA 91030 (626) 799-8500 E-mail: swingking@earthlink.net

There is more Same Sex Swing dancing in films. If you know of them Contact the Queer Jitterbugs media department and we'll upload them to the site!

Keep scrolling to see clip links!

Follow The Boys Two soldiers, Bob Ashley & Lenny Smith, dance together (very brief scene) - 1944



Swing Kids 1980's Movie.


Home Video of Maxie Dorf and Hal Takier At McGees Balboa Swing dancing in the middle of clip) in the 1980's.
Maxie says: " Whenever you see me dancing with a 'guy' I'm always following." Image from http://www.jitterbuzz.com/frameset.html


The Canterville Ghost GI's dance together. - 1944


Rumored to be lovers Al Minns and Leon James instructed together in "Chicago And All that Jazz" from the 1960's. Is this where the rum ore started?

From the film "Swing Fever" Don Gallaher, Jean Phelps Veloz and Lenny Smith performing to "Undecided."


Home Movie - Jitterbug Jamboree at New York World's Fair Dancers - Swing'n on the Tea Garden Gate - Tons of Women dance together. (Hearst-Paramount Pathe News) - 1939/1940