Photo Photo and Audio Slide Show By Clare Trapasso
This post isn’t about homelessness. It’s about gay, New York City culture that I covered in my magazine story. In the late 1970s, gay, black culture started holding balls in the city. These balls were a combination of model runway, female look-alike and dance competitions. A dancing style called vogue grew out of this subculture, which Madonna immortalized in the song.
I went to a mini-ball last night, which a few of the residents at Sylvia’s Place sometimes attend. The ball began at 3:30 a.m. in Chinatown. I should warn you that sound quality is poor (no one could leave the loud club without having to pay to get back inside) and I wasn’t able to capture many motion pictures without significant blurring on my camera. But I thought that the slide show was interesting enough to post. Click this link to view it.
Homeless in New York City 