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    heavily influenced by ball culture. In 2018, Viceland aired a docuseries, My House, following six people in the New York City ball culture. In the spring of...
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  • evolved out of 1960s ball culture in Harlem, New York. In 2018, the American television series Pose showcased Harlem's ball culture scene of the 1980s and...
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  • Xtravaganza. A prominent transgender performer in New York City's gay ball culture, Xtravanganza featured in the acclaimed 1990 documentary film Paris is...
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  • ball culture. She became a mother figure for homeless LGBTQ youth. In the early 1960s, before the emergence of regular balls, New York's drag culture...
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  • Paris Is Burning (film) (category Documentary films about ball culture)
    Jennie Livingston. Filmed in the mid-to-late 1980s, it chronicles the ball culture of New York City and the African-American, Latino, gay, and transgender...
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    Murder House (2011), Patty Bowes in the first season of the FX drag ball culture drama series Pose (2018), and a teacher who begins an illicit relationship...
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  • 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...
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    Vogue (dance) (category Ball culture)
    "Underground Ball Culture". Grinnell College. Archived from the original on 28 December 2019. Retrieved 13 December 2019. Wallace, Stephaun Elite. "Ball Categories"...
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  • House of Aviance, one of the legendary houses that emerged from the U.S. ball culture in the 1980s, a House which is still active in New York City." He is...
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  • Slay (slang) (category Ball culture)
    the 1600s, but gained its current LGBT connotation in the 1970s from ball culture. Originally having a meaning similar to "that joke was killer", slay...
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  • developed in the ball culture, imitating the movements of models on the catwalk. Beyoncé has also mentioned she was influenced by the ball culture, "how inspired...
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  • Dragon Ball (Japanese: ドラゴンボール, Hepburn: Doragon Bōru) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama. Originally serialized in Shueisha's...
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  • Gen Z slang originates from African-American Vernacular English and ball culture. Contents:  A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also...
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  • Paris Dupree (category Ball culture people)
    "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...
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    gender identity and becoming involved in the contemporary underground ball culture scene. Her portrayal of Ebony earned her a nomination for Best Actress...
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  • Kiki (social gathering) (category Ball culture)
    the ball culture of New York City and the African-American, Latino, gay, and transgender communities involved in it. It shows the New York ball scene...
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    Michelle Visage (category Ball culture people)
    "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...
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    Drag queen (category Popular culture language)
    Drag Day, July 16, 2023. Drag families are a part of ball culture and drag houses. In ball culture, drag queens usually all share the same last name of...
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    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...
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  • Yas (slang) (category Ball culture)
    popular meaning and various spelling variants, has roots in late 1980s ball culture, a predominantly black and Latino LGBT subculture in the United States...
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  • original namesake was likely the 19th-century politician Thomas Swann. Ball culture LGBT social movements African-American LGBT community Drag queen Cross-dressing...
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  • Kevin Burrus (category Ball culture people)
    American mentor, speaker, LGBTQ activist, and film producer who founded the ball culture House of Omni in 1979–which was renamed the House of UltraOmni in 1990–and...
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  • Dashaun Wesley (category Ball culture people)
    Ball: Sydney's queer community of colour celebrates in dizzying style". The Guardian. Retrieved July 4, 2022. Ryan, Hugh (June 18, 2018). "How Ball Culture...
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  • Pose (TV series) (category Works about ball culture)
    as POSE) is an American drama television series about New York City's ball culture, an LGBTQ subculture in the African-American and Latino communities,...
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  • How Do I Look (category Documentary films about ball culture)
    film chronicles ball culture in Harlem and Philadelphia over a ten-year period. Wolfgang Busch began interviewing subjects from the ball circuit in 1995...
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    (est. 1982), the first primarily Latino house in the underground Harlem ball culture. Born July 14, 1961, in Puerto Rico, Daniel Camacho was raised in Brooklyn...
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  • A gay ball may refer to: A cross-dressing ball, especially one whose participants are gay men Ball culture, an LGBT Black and Latino American offshoot...
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  • 1st Annual "House of LaBeija Ball” at Up the Downstairs Case in Harlem, NY. This is thought to be the birth of house culture within the ballroom scene—as...
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  • Throw shade (category Ball culture)
    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...
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  • Willi Ninja (category Ball culture people)
    Paris Is Burning. Ninja specialized in voguing and was a fixture of ball culture at Harlem's drag balls who took inspiration from sources as far-flung...
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