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Butch Queen (BQ) Realness – Judged on participants' ability to blend in with male heterosexuals.Butch Queen Vogue Fem/Female Figure Performance – Use the vogue elements of hands, catwalk, duckwalk, floor performance, spins and dips.Voguing consists of five elements: duckwalk, catwalk, hands, floorwork, and spins and dips. Some competitive walks involve crossdressing, while others strive to accentuate a male participant's masculinity or a female participant's femininity as a parody of heterosexuality. Some trophies are 12 feet (3.7 m) tall, and a grand-prize winner can earn $1,000 or more. The largest balls can last as long as ten hours, with dozens of categories in a single evening. Balls are influenced by hip hop fashion and music. Participants dress according to the category in which they are competing, and are expected to display appropriate "realness," or adherence to the category. To compete against each other, Houses "walk" in balls judged on vogue skills, costumes, appearance, and attitude. The Undeniable House of Basquiat (founded by Dashaun Wesley)Ĭontestant walking towards the judges at a ball in Berlin in 2018.The Royal House of Nina Oricci (founded by Gillette and Omari Mizrahi Oricci).The House of Xtravaganza (founded by Hector Valle, and chiefly run by Hector Xtravaganza and Angie Xtravaganza in the 1980s).
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Īttendees dance, vogue, walk, pose, perform, lip-sync, and model in numerous drag and performance competition categories for trophies and prizes. Beginning in the late 19th century, members of the underground LGBTQ+ community in large cities began to organize their own cross-dressing masquerade balls, both in opposition to laws that banned individuals from wearing clothes associated with the opposite gender and earlier cross-dressing balls that, while racially integrated for the participants, were usually led and judged by white people. Ball culture (also known as drag ball culture, the house-ballroom community, the ballroom scene, ballroom culture, or similar terms) describe a young African-American and Latino underground LGBTQ+ subculture that originated in New York City.