Paris Is Burning

• S6E3 · Chi Chi Valenti & Johnny Dynell▶Play from 00:34:08 · 3 mentions in this episode

  Being shot while Chi Chi researched the balls; Johnny tried to help raise money for it

  FashionBallroom realness

• S2E1 · Michelle Visage▶Play from 00:33:28 · 4 mentions in this episode

  Michelle was hurt not to be in it at first - 'this was not my story', she says now

On the scene timeline

1. 1986 · Harlem and downtown

   Harlem's ball scene meets downtown

   Voguing crosses from the uptown balls into the downtown clubs, five years before Paris Is Burning puts it on screen.

   Susanne BartschMichael MustoWilli NinjaPepper LaBeijaParis Dupree

2. 1991 · Cinemas worldwide

   Paris Is Burning reaches cinemas

   Jennie Livingston's documentary makes the Harlem ball houses legible to the world and hands drag its vocabulary.

   Michael MustoMichelle VisageJennie LivingstonWilli NinjaDorian CoreyOctavia St. Laurent

Also named on these cards

In the same rooms (aka the gang)