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The event marked the fourth time District 10 Pride has partnered with Oakland to All, the Bay Area-based ballroom collective ...
For other members of the ballroom community, voguing is simply a way of being, of existing. And existing itself is a form of resistance. "Culture is resistance in every aspect," Devon Webster, ...
A star in the Harlem ballroom scene, credited as the “Godfather of Voguing,” Ninja’s given name was William Roscoe Leake. Born in 1961, Ninja grew up in Flushing, ...
Combining dance, fashion, self-expression and community, Ballroom creates a space where many young people — particularly LGBTQ+ people of color — have built their own families and forge… ...
Known as the “Godfather of Voguing,” Ninja was a major figure in New York City’s ballroom subculture in the 1980s and ’90s. As a special Google Arts & Culture page devoted to ballroom ...
In 1990, two major works put a new spotlight on voguing and the ballroom scene: “Paris is Burning,” a documentary about ball culture among Black and Latino communities in New York, and Madonna ...
Ballroom culture is a safe haven for Black and Latino queer and trans youth. ... After a night of voguing at Tempe Town Lake in May 2020, Locker told Jenkins, ...
Local ballroom organizers held a memorial ball at a Capitol Hill gas station to honor O’Shae Sibley, a dancer killed at a New York gas station after voguing.