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Wh their groundbreakg mil dramaPose, FX and Ryan Murphy attempt to explore what life was like for gay, trans, and genr non-nformg dividuals New York’s ballroom muny the mid-1980s, before the culture crossed over to the mastream, as facilated and appropriated by, among others, Madonna’s “Vogue” and Jennie Livgston’s Paris Is Burng. Gee Chncey lls this the difitn of “the differenc between the public styl of middle-class and workg-class gay men” his book, Gay New York: Genr, Urban Culture, and the Makg of the Gay Male World. "'Realns' is about portrayg archetyp ually associated wh straight culture through drs and dance; to be nsired 'real' at a ball, a performer mt 'pass' as straight if they are gay or as cisgenr if they are transgenr.