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The Florida Photographic Collection is a nationally recognized component of the State Archives of Florida and contains over a million images, and over 6,000 movies and video tapes. Over 200,000 of the photographs are available through the Florida Memory Program web site.
The Ballroom scene (also known as the Ballroom community, Ballroom culture, or just Ballroom) is an African-American and Latino underground LGBTQ+ subculture. The scene traces its origins to the drag balls of the mid-19th century United States , such as those hosted by William Dorsey Swann , a formerly enslaved Black man in Washington D.C. .
It was Flashback Friday (and Saturday, and Sunday) over the weekend at 90s Con 2024 in Daytona Beach, Fla. From Sept. 13 to 15, stars of your favorite series (Full House!Sabrina the Teenage Witch!
The House of Xtravaganza has continued in its role of ambassador to the ballroom scene. As ballroom culture has expanded globally, the House has designated a small and select group of members in Europe, Asia, and South America to represent Xtravaganza in those regions, while NYC remains the center of the House's structure and membership.
In 1990 the ballroom scene and voguing began to enter the mainstream. Jennie Livingston's award-winning documentary film Paris Is Burning chronicled the underground scene and made celebrities some of the long-time stars of the ballroom scene, who to that point had remained mostly unknown to the larger public. Filmed between 1986 and 1989, the ...
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Octavia St. Laurent Mizrahi (March 16, 1964 – May 17, 2009) [3] was an American model and AIDS educator who was active in New York City's Black and Latino ballroom community and Harlem's luxurious balls. [4] [5] They came to public attention after being featured in the 1990 documentary Paris Is Burning. [6]