Black and Latino LGBT subculture in the United States
Not to be confused with Ball (dance party).
Contestant in a ball at the National Museum of African Art, 2016
The Ballroom scene (also known as the Ballroom community, Ballroom culture, or just Ballroom) is an African-American and Latino underground LGBTQ+ subculture. Its origins can be found in drag balls of the mid-19th century United States, such as those hosted by William Dorsey Swann, a formerly enslaved Black man in Washington D.C.. By the early 20th century, integrated drag balls were popular in cities such as New York, Chicago, New Orleans, Baltimore, and Philadelphia. In the mid-20th century, as a response to racism in integrated drag spaces, the balls evolved into house ballroom, where Black and Latino attendees could "walk" in a variety of categories for trophies and cash prizes. Most participants in ballroom belong to groups known as "houses," where chosen families of friends form relationships and communities separate from their families of origin, from which they may be estranged.[1][2] The influence of ballroom culture can be seen in dance, language, music, and popular culture, and the community still exists today.
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heavily influenced by ballculture. In 2018, Viceland aired a docuseries, My House, following six people in the New York City ballculture. In the spring of...
ballculture. She became a mother figure for homeless LGBTQ youth. In the early 1960s, before the emergence of regular balls, New York's drag culture...
Xtravaganza. A prominent transgender performer in New York City's gay ballculture, Xtravanganza featured in the acclaimed 1990 documentary film Paris is...
Dragon Ball (Japanese: ドラゴンボール, Hepburn: Doragon Bōru) is a Japanese media franchise created by Akira Toriyama in 1984. The initial manga, written and...
Murder House (2011), Patty Bowes in the first season of the FX drag ballculture drama series Pose (2018), and a teacher who begins an illicit relationship...
toku in Poland. In more recent years, Rivera was active in Manhattan's ballculture. Rivera was married to Daniel Cuervo, with whom she lived in New York...
American mentor, speaker, LGBTQ activist, and film producer who founded the ballculture House of Omni in 1979–which was renamed the House of UltraOmni in 1990–and...
"The Love Ball", which was organized by Bartsch as a benefit for the Design Industries Foundation For AIDS. It is said that The Love Ball is where Madonna...
House of Aviance, one of the legendary houses that emerged from the U.S. ballculture in the 1980s, a House which is still active today and "currently reigns...
entertainment communities. Drag families are a part of ballculture and drag houses. In ballculture, drag queens usually all share the same last name of...
Paris Is Burning. Ninja specialized in voguing and was a fixture of ballculture at Harlem's drag balls who took inspiration from sources as far-flung...
A gay ball may refer to: A cross-dressing ball, especially one whose participants are gay men Ballculture, an LGBT Black and Latino American offshoot...
"Maybe it's just me...: Ball Legend Paris Dupree has Died". "10 Infamous 'Paris Is Burning' Moments That Defined Queer Culture". May 22, 2015. Laurence...
Vogue... Drag ball and voguing culture made its screen breakthrough in 1990 when Livingston's movie, titled Paris Is Burning after the 1986 ball staged by...
Cock and ball torture (CBT) is a sexual activity involving the application of pain or constriction to the male genitals. This may involve directly painful...
the 1980s by New York City's working-class in the "ballroom and vogue culture". He writes that it refers to "the processes of a publicly performed dissimulation...
(est. 1982), the first primarily Latino house in the underground Harlem ballculture. Born July 14, 1961, in Puerto Rico, Daniel Camacho was raised in Brooklyn...
Meredith (August 2, 2019). "How 'Pose' perfectly re-creates the queer ballculture of 1990 New York". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 5, 2020. Desta,...
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