Ballroom helps people find family, resources and themselves. The tradition was created decades ago by Black performers who were tired of being overlooked in white LGBTQ spaces.

When he is not ripping the runway in the LGBTQI subculture of ballroom competitions, Keith Irvin Jr. — stage name Father Papi Alain Mikli — works as a flight attendant traveling the country.

A once underground LGBTQ+ subculture, where mostly LGBTQ+ people of color would create chosen families in the form of Houses and compete in pageants. "Being 16 years old when I first found out ...

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 ...

When he is not ripping the runway in the LGBTQI subculture of ballroom competitions, Keith Irvin Jr. — stage name Father Papi Alain Mikli — works as a flight attendant traveling the country.

Ballroom, or ball, culture was an underground black and Latino subculture in which drag queens would hold various pageants. He also recently starred in a new Cinderella live-action adaptation, in ...

LUSE: The actors are no longer cats doing ballet in leotards and full faces of cat makeup, but people in the ballroom subculture who compete for trophies in different categories like runway, face ...

More than 30 seasons into Dancing With the Stars, there’s still one question that Us needs answered: Why are so many ballroom dancers Mormon? When the reality competition premiered in 2005 ...

For the 1990 film, which documented New York City’s ballroom subculture in the late 1980s, Livingston and her crew interviewed Venus Pellagatti Xtravaganz at the Jersey City, New Jersey, home ...