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In the 1980s and 90s, the Harlem ballroom scene, popularized by the documentary Paris is Burning , was a sanctuary for Black and Latinx LGBTQ youth. While it featured categories for "drag queens" and "butch queens," it was also a space where transgender women (then often called "transsexual women") competed in categories like "realness." The goal was to flawlessly pass as a cisgender (non-transgender) woman, walking through a performance of everyday life—on the subway, at a bank, on a job interview. The ballroom scene gave birth to voguing, iconic slang (like "shade," "reading," and "opus"), and a family structure of "Houses" that provided shelter and love to those rejected by their birth families. This culture was not adjacent to the transgender experience; it was a direct expression of it. young shemales gallery


