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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...
Kelsey Louie is determined to end the AIDS epidemic once and for all
Kelsey Louie with Gay Men’s Health Crisis founder Larry KramerKelsey Louie, 44
CEO of Gay Men’s Health Crisis
As a kid, Kelsey Louie dreamed of one day becoming a doctor. In college at NYU, he realized he could impact people’s well-being in another way: as a social worker. And that’s just what he did, spending the first seven years of his career at Harlem United Community AIDS Center, eventually becoming the non-profit’s chief operating officer. Then, in 2014, at...
