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SWG TIME: GAY BALLROOM DANCG
Ballroom is an unrground LGBTQ subculture which participants, who are largely Black or Latx trans people and gay men, pete for priz, trophi, tl — thk “legend” and “in” — or sh at events known as balls. “It is imperative that we form a unified fellowship of brothers and sisters, pecially our trans sisters, battlg the te enemi of our opprsed muni, which also clu racism, HIV, homophobia, discrimatn and other social misfortun, ” Davis add. Bowman troduced Richard LaBoy, an Ao-Lato out gay man to the ballroom scene when LaBoy was 10th gra at Philalphia’s Central High School.