“It’s seen as a form of resistance to all this strife.”
For her debut, this category called all female figures to “bring it as varsity athletes.” Yasha was dressed in a bright white Aritzia leotard with gymnastics chalk covering the palm of her hands. She took one step forward, and all she could hear was the crowd ferociously chanting, “LaBeija! LaBeija! LaBeija!” After she completed her walk, Yasha elegantly turned around and looked ahead of her once again, sign after sign jolted into the air: 10s, 10s across the board.
While the inception of ball culture dates back to the 1960s, a new younger generation of ballroom, including Yasha, remains alive and well. Despite several elements of the prolific culture permeating mainstream media, the younger generation of ballroom continues to be drawn to it in the same way their predecessors were: a love and pursuit of queer community.
In March 2023, at the Ballroom Throwbacks TV Awards Ball, thrown by the Haus of Alpha Omega at Knockdown Center in Queens, 22-year-old Yasha debuted in her first-ever ballroom category and took home the grand prize for “female figure realness.” She had joined the House of LaBeija almost a year before that after one of the House leaders, Jeffrey, “but we all refer to him lovingly as Kitty LaBeija,” recruited her from a chance encounter at a LaBeija Fourth of July barbecue event in 2022.
The documentary follows the New York City ballroom scene from the mid to late 80s, shining a spotlight on
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