Tag: Crystal LaBeija
How the ball scene went from the Harlem Renaissance to Warhol to ‘Pose’
This is the last in a series of “Then & Now” articles looking at historic places that have made New York the cradle of LGBTQ life from Stonewall to today at Pride 50.
PARIS IS BURNING, 1990. Off White Productions/ Courtesy: Everett Collection.New York’s ball culture as we know it today — as depicted in Paris Is Burning and Pose — grew out of a backlash to the rampant racial segregation of the city’s queer masquerades and pageants. These glitzy...
