[zwayhowder]

Have you ever seen a Morris dancer? If folk clubs will accept that...

But seriously, you're right that they don't always look like they'd be welcoming. Most folk clubs tend to skew older and that often means conservative, though my experience is that most of the old folkies now were all young hippies once and honestly they are more likely to attend a rally/march than a middle aged professional with a full time job and family...

[OfSanguineFire]

Even if the participants in some folk-dance clubs are supposedly tolerant old hippies, they still expect new members to be quiet and just learn the moves that are taught. Your examples of Scottish Ceilidh, Irish Ceili and Platford and Regency dances are all about the traditional rules that are passed down, not self-expression. LGBT folks can’t show up and be out, proud, and loud like they can in the electronic dance world. People of color might feel distress at being forced into a mold of whiteness.

[davidwritesbugs]

I know something of Morris dancing culture as my wife dances and I have the music and dance inflicted on me quite regularly. There are many "sides", as the teams are called, with out LGBT participants and I believe even some LGBT sides. Morris is quite a liberal pastime and I've I've not seen any "shut up and dance" to n00bs but ymmv.

[K0balt]

Latino dance like bachata and salsa tend to be much more welcoming to flamboyance and are inherently not nearly as racially constrained.