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https://baltimorebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/DSC_8011-1-scaled.jpg25601709For decades, Black queer folks have found solace, release, and peace in nightlife. In Baltimore and beyond, dance floors, warehouses, and clubs provide marginalized people the opportunity to be something that they’re often denied in the daylight: free. VERSION is a queer and trans dance party by and for Black people, started in 2017 by […]