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Here are the Best Clips from the \u2018Queer Dance Party\u2019 at Mike Pence\u2019s House Attended by Hundreds: WATCH<\/b><\/p>\n

The Queer Dance Party held by DC activist groups WERK and DisruptJ20 in front of VP-elect Mike Pence\u2019s house in the DC suburb of Chevy Chase, Maryland went off last night and it was colorful.<\/p>\n

\"disrupt<\/a>Pence will\u00a0arguably be the most openly anti-LGBTQ Vice-President in history when sworn in.<\/p>\n

From running a think-tank that published virulently anti-gay<\/a> articles, to attempting\u00a0to divert HIV\/AIDS money to fund conversion therapy, to refusing to protect LGBT Hoosiers from discrimination, to legalizing anti-LGBT discrimination in Indiana, to cozying up to\u00a0notorious homophobes, to supporting\u00a0a ban on gay<\/a> marriage, and decrying the \u2018mainstreaming of homosexuality in the military\u2019 after DADT was repealed, the list is among the worst records on LGBTQ issues the office\u00a0will have ever seen.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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They’re dancing now pic.twitter.com\/4rH7ieHzQB<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 AJ Metcalf (@AJwatchMD) January 18, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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More pix from the Queer Dance Party @WTOP<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/aqQFov3VvH<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Michelle Basch (@mbaschWTOP) January 19, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Protestors holding “Queer Dance Party” outside VP-Elect Pence’s house tonight. In ChevyChaseCir now @WTOP<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/KbHwlyTJNm<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Michelle Basch (@mbaschWTOP) January 19, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It featured twerking.<\/p>\n

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So\u2026the Queer Dance Party meant for VP Elect Pence’s place is happening in the middle of Western Ave. and it includes twerking @WTOP<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/Kit7QEcOjf<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Michelle Basch (@mbaschWTOP) January 19, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Musical selections, including Madonna, Beyonc\u00e9,Whitney Houston, and Lady Gaga,<\/p>\n

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Now playing on Western Ave: @ladygaga<\/a> \u2014 protest almost at Mike Pence’s home pic.twitter.com\/wugfY0Ud76<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Betsy Klein (@betsy_klein) January 19, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Washington Post<\/em> reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cDance is so integral to the queer community as a form of self-expression and a form of asserting our power and our beauty and our love for one another,\u201d said Firas Nasr, 23, a protest organizer who lives in Virginia. \u201cThe idea is to leave a mark that Mike Pence will never forget.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to send a strong message to Pence that we\u2019re a united queer community,\u201d he said, above the pulsing sounds of Michael Jackson and Madonna. \u201cWe\u2019ve always stood united. There\u2019s always space to dance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Throwing glitter and waving glow sticks and rainbow flags, the protesters gathered at Western Avenue and Tennyson Street NW and danced in the street. By 8\u00a0p.m. many in the crowd swayed in unison and sang along as Whitney Houston\u2019s \u201cI Wanna Dance With Somebody\u201d blared from a pair of two-foot-tall speakers.<\/p>\n

Watch:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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The Queer Dance Party continues\u2026to Whitney Houston @WTOP<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/td5DhQr0s9<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Michelle Basch (@mbaschWTOP) January 19, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Mike Pence\u2019s immediate property was blockaded off so protesters were kept well away, but that didn\u2019t stop the celebration. And there were Trump supporters massed too, but protest leaders told people not to engage.<\/p>\n

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Protesters informed there are Trump supporters ahead. They were implored not to engage:”We do not need to feed their energy,” organizer said pic.twitter.com\/9J5kkWLVST<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Betsy Klein (@betsy_klein) January 19, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Except with Queen, and more dancing:<\/p>\n

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Marching\/dancing along Western Ave. as Queen plays @WTOP<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/yht5XTRsgH<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Michelle Basch (@mbaschWTOP) January 19, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There were supporters along the march route:<\/p>\n

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Some people are standing along marchers’ route & waving in approval, some cars beeping horns @WTOP<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/pRhr2cb4nK<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Michelle Basch (@mbaschWTOP) January 19, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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More of the dancing that went on in DC’s normally quiet Chevy Chase neighborhood tonight @WTOP<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/WWl75uaoWT<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Michelle Basch (@mbaschWTOP) January 19, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

FOX5 in DC broadcast live<\/a> on Facebook for about 40 minutes.<\/p>\n

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