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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.
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… Ballroom started the early ‘70s bee a lot of people of lor specifilly om muni and ci were kicked out of their hom, like me, for beg gay, ” said LaBoy, now 35. Billy Porter also beme the first out gay Black man to w an Emmy the outstandg lead actor a drama seri tegory for his role the show. Ball culture then grew to clu primarily gay, lbian, bisexual, and Trans Black people and Latos.