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’A HOUSE IS MY HOME’ - A House/Ballroom Community Investigation
Thursday, July 25th, 6-8:30pm, NYC
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JOIN US FOR THIS POWERFUL DISCUSSION presented by the Vogue'ology Collective and Destination Tomorrow!
‘A House is My Home’ will bring together a panel of Ballroom members from multiple generations to explore the Ballroom scene’s understanding of family, community and what it means to create and provide a home.
The House/Ballroom Scene is a creative collective and kinship system established and sustained by Black and Latino/a transgender, lesbian, bisexual and gay individuals. While the modern ballroom scene was constituted almost 50 years ago, its roots are in the Harlem Renaissance and the strategies of survival and creative expression developed during slavery.
PANELISTS INCLUDE: The Pioneer Icon Junior Labeija, The Pioneer Icon Michael Dupree, The Icon Sean Ebony, The Legendary Mariah Lopez and The Up and Coming Janovia Garçon. MODERATED BY: Father Michael Roberson Garçon and Robert Sember.
Portraits from GERARD GASKIN’S 20+ years photographing the House/Ballroom scene will also be on view!
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'A House is My Home’ is presented in partnership with the Queers in Exile: the Unforgotten Legacies of LGBTQ Homeless Youth exhibit, curated by Coalition for Queer Youth founder, Alexis Heller.
#QueersInExileExhibit explores the personal histories, creativity and activism of LGBTQ street-involved youth from the Stonewall riots of 1969 to today.
At:
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art
Through July 28th. The museum is open Tuesday-Sunday, 12-6pm.
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AboutVogue'ology:
In 2009, members of the Ballroom community and the sound-art collective, Ultra-red, initiated Vogue’ology, a collaborative project that builds on the Ballroom scene’s long history of self-organized creative innovation and struggle against transphobia, homophobia, gender oppression and health and other disparities. Vogue'ology includes the Arbert Santana Ballroom Archive and Oral History Project and has organized numerous exhibitions, panels, workshops and presentations in the U.S. and internationally. The initiative has also offered classes at The New School’s Eugene Lang College.
AboutDestination Tomorrow:
Founded by Sean Ebony Coleman, Destination Tomorrow is a grassroots organization providing services to the large community of LGBTQ residents in the South Bronx. Founded in 2008, Destination Tomorrow has been dedicated to offering culturally competent support to the underserved transmale population, House/Ballroom scene and all queer youth ages 13-25, through groups, counseling, HIV/AIDS testing and prevention campaigns, as well as advocacy efforts at the state and local level. For more information visit www.destinationtomorrow.org.
'A House is My Home’ is presented in partnership with the Queers in Exile: the Unforgotten Legacies of LGBTQ Homeless Youth exhibit, curated by Coalition for Queer Youth founder, Alexis Heller.
#QueersInExileExhibit explores the personal histories, creativity and activism of LGBTQ street-involved youth from the Stonewall riots of 1969 to today.
At:
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art
Through July 28th. The museum is open Tuesday-Sunday, 12-6pm.
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AboutVogue'ology:
In 2009, members of the Ballroom community and the sound-art collective, Ultra-red, initiated Vogue’ology, a collaborative project that builds on the Ballroom scene’s long history of self-organized creative innovation and struggle against transphobia, homophobia, gender oppression and health and other disparities. Vogue'ology includes the Arbert Santana Ballroom Archive and Oral History Project and has organized numerous exhibitions, panels, workshops and presentations in the U.S. and internationally. The initiative has also offered classes at The New School’s Eugene Lang College.
AboutDestination Tomorrow:
Founded by Sean Ebony Coleman, Destination Tomorrow is a grassroots organization providing services to the large community of LGBTQ residents in the South Bronx. Founded in 2008, Destination Tomorrow has been dedicated to offering culturally competent support to the underserved transmale population, House/Ballroom scene and all queer youth ages 13-25, through groups, counseling, HIV/AIDS testing and prevention campaigns, as well as advocacy efforts at the state and local level. For more information visit www.destinationtomorrow.org.
Photo credit: Gerard Gaskin
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