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The scene also fostered a kship system of “ho”—chosen fai wh anoted ‘mothers’ and ‘fathers’ who gui and support their ‘children’—and uplifted a llective rejectn of both whe supremacy and Black homophobia. Read more: Why Black Trans Women Are Essential to Our Future In June 2019, on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rts that sparked the Gay Liberatn movement, Layleen Cubilette-Polan, an Ao-Domin trans woman and member of the legendary Ballroom Hoe of Xtravaganza, was left to die at the same prison, after havg an epileptic episo while solary nfement. 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.
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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.