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If Cities Could Dance
Voguing on the Streets of San Francisco
Season 1
Episode 1
When Jocquese Whitfield (aka Sir JoQ) was coming-of-age in San Francisco, he says voguing was "the push he needed to come out.” Watch Sir JoQ, Shea Mizrahi and DJ Spiider catwalk, duckwalk, spin, dip and drop through Chinatown to the MUNI tracks and the Mission.
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