"There is no record of the first time a University of Georgia student, feeling moved and the need to move, stood up while a band was playing and began to dance... In the early 1970s, the band Ravenstone played the first gay rights dance in the Southeast, which Jason NeSmith (Casper & the Cookies/Pylon Reenactment Society) believes might have set a standard."

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Getting Here from There: A Slight History of Athens Music - Athens Magazine