An event or moment · 1971 · Fandom
The first convention
Fans gather, in costume, in a hotel ballroom, to be in the same room with people who feel the same way about a show.
The first mass physical assembly of parasocial people, and the proof that the bond had become a social fact requiring infrastructure. Everything after is logistics.
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