What is T-Dance?

[nq:1]I have seen the term Tea Dance, or T-Dance, in ads of night clubs. What does it mean? Or what kind of dance it it?[/nq]
Tea dances were (are?) afternoon social
occasions for both sexes to meet and mingle
(and dance) at which no alcoholic drinks are
available only tea. Tea dances thus guarantee
social respectability.

Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Ca

"Don Phillipson" (Email Removed) wrote on 20 Dec 2003:
[nq:2]I have seen the term Tea Dance, or T-Dance, in ads of night clubs. What does it mean? Or what kind of dance it it?[/nq]
[nq:1]Tea dances were (are?) afternoon social occasions for both sexes to meet and mingle (and dance) at which no alcoholic drinks are available only tea. Tea dances thus guarantee social respectability.[/nq]

[nq:2]Tea dances were (are?) afternoon social occasions for both sexes ... available only tea. Tea dances thus guarantee social respectability.[/nq]
[nq:1]Don't we have three sexes: hetero-, ****-, and bisexuals? Shouldn't that be "all the sexes" instead of "both sexes"? To be inclusive and diverse as well as accurate, I mean. That way, nobody gets left out in dictum as well as in fact.[/nq]

"Jody Bilyeu" (Email Removed) wrote on 20 Dec 2003:
[nq:1]That's a noble sentiment.[/nq]
Not at all. I say, in the same spirit as Hemingway or F. Scott Fitzgerald, which over them really said it, "Bisexuals are very different from you (assuming that you are an exclusive homosexual or heterosexual) from you and me". I think I am being realistic and not noble.
[nq:1]I would say, however,

[nq:2]That's a noble sentiment.[/nq]
[nq:1]Not at all. I say, in the same spirit as Hemingway or F. Scott Fitzgerald, which over them really said ... you are an exclusive homosexual or heterosexual) from you and me". I think I am being realistic and not noble.[/nq]
Fitzgerald.

Good sexual preference does tend to imply a choice. Like you, I find no choice in operation in my own sex

[nq:2]Tea dances were (are?) afternoon social occasions for both sexes ... available only tea. Tea dances thus guarantee social respectability.[/nq]
[nq:1]Don't we have three sexes: hetero-, ****-, and bisexuals? Shouldn't that be "all the sexes" instead of "both sexes"?[/nq]
1. No: the creators of tea dances recognizedonly two sexes.

2. Most people nowadays recognize only three s

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But since these are night clubs, I suspect that the only aspect of the old definition that they actually continue is that the dances are in the afternoon,
or more generally, before normal night club time.
Kind of like matinee is used for movies.
Richard Maurer To reply, remove half
Sunnyvale, California of a homonym of a synonym for also.
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[nq:2]Don't we have three sexes: hetero-, ****-, and bisexuals? Shouldn't that be "all the sexes" instead of "both sexes"?[/nq]
[nq:1]1. No: the creators of tea dances recognized only two sexes. 2. Most people nowadays recognize only three sexes (as distinct from sexual preferences). It is Christmas so we assume that only inadvertently did you exclude the transgendered from the tea dance.[/nq]

[nq:1]And yet, the only tea dance that I know of as still existing is held on Saturdays in one of the gay towns on Fire Island.[/nq]
BTW, the "linking r" is used by non-rhotic New York speakers when pronouncing "Fire Island": /faI@ raIl@nd/, not /faI@ aIl@nd/.

[nq:2]1. No: the creators of tea dances recognized only two ... inadvertently did you exclude the transgendered from the tea dance.[/nq]
[nq:1]And yet, the only tea dance that I know of as still existing is held on Saturdays in one of the gay towns on Fire Island. Gary[/nq]
ISTR there's one every arvo over on the Left Coast in the Empress Hotel, Victoria, BC. It never has been a gay