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Former Madonna Dancer Remembers How His ‘Truth Or Dare’ Kiss Helped Inspire Young Gay People

MadonnaTruth_018PyxurzThis was 1990. The stuff we did at the time, it wasn’t cool at the time, but now it is cool…

Like, me kissing the guys. I still get letters about that! Now everyone is kissing, but at the time people didn’t think it was cool. We were just being ourselves. But it inspired a lot of people just to be yourself, and express yourself. But we did it all without knowing what an impact it would have throughout the world.”Salim “Slam” Gauwloos remembering the impact of his passionate kiss with the late Gabriel Trupin while the two were backupdancers during Madonna‘s Blond Ambition tour, while promoting the upcoming documentary Strike a Pose in an interview with Attitude

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