On October 11, the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa (UH Mānoa) announced it was among the first in the nation to offer a “queer dance course.” The course is a 3-unit class where students can take a “performing arts practice based course in queer dance.”

According to University of Hawai’i News, the course is described as a queer dance class that will “explore the communicative, physical and artistic aspects of dance as a medium of human expression and interaction.”

The UH Mānoa course incorporates techniques “born out of gay and lesbian dance clubs and ballroom culture and has been widely popularized on stage by pop artists such as Lady Gaga and Madonna,” according to the news site.