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    House of Xtravaganza by Stefan Ruiz

    Dec 04, 2018 2 minutes
    Mikelle Street

    It took a picnic in New York’s Central Park for Coko Xtravaganza to understand what the House of Xtravaganza meant when they called each other family. Having been inducted into the crew in 1983—after discovering house members on the piers on Manhattan’s West Side and at the downtown nightclub Paradise Garage—Coko thought they were simply a group of friends with

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