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*Bangy- Refers to an urban looking gay male or female |
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*Turn it- Meaning to give it your best |
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*Sickney - Some shit the bitches on What's Tea.com made up with they stupid asses! And it WON'T catch on. |
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*Fucking for tracks - When you look like Christina Aguilera while you voguing + your vogue is late and tired. Instead of yelling out "CHOPPED!" they gon be like, "This bitch is fucking for tracks!" |
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The Ballroom scene is a social subculture of the GLBT community involving staged, competitive drag fashion performances.
History
In its early stages it was purely underground and was means for members of the GLBT community to come out and participate in a competition purely for recreation. Members of this community each would represent a team, or house as they refer to it. A house is a group of GLBT that would care for each other and help one another when needed. Most of the members of these houses would come from broken homes where they would not receive support or encouragement for their sexual identity. The ballroom scene was a means for escape from the cold reality into a fantasy world where they would find acceptance for whoever they wish to be, be it a man or woman. status, wealth and glamour are the key factors in the ballroom culture.
Different houses would coordinate special events ( balls ) where the houses would meet and compete against each other in different categories. They would present themselves before a number of judges ( usually one well known person from each house ) where they would be judged accordingly
The scene was made public when Madonna stumbled into one of these balls and created her song "Vogue". Over the years the ballroom culture has evolved into a more modern fast-paced experience with a horde of new categories and themes. Houses evolve into others and standings between different houses also changes. Started in New York, the ballroom scene culture has spread to a national level.
Categories and description
- Vogue- A form of dance known best as high fashion posing mixed in with various forms of dance
- Realness- Judged on participants ability to blend in with heterosexuals
- Runway- Judged on participants ability to catwalk, usually with a requested outfit or color
- Bizarre- Judged on participants creativity to design a costume based on what the category
asks for
- Labels- Judged on how many of the year labels a participant is wearing and their authenticity
Slang
- Legendary- Highest form of status in the ballroom scene short of iconic ( Willie Ninja, Pepper la Beija, Paris Dupri, Yose Extravaganza)
- Butch queen - Refers to a gay male ranging from masculine to feminine
- Fem queen- Refers to a gay male taking female hormones, post-op to pre-op
- Drags - Refers to a gay male in female clothing
- Ovah - A term meaning beautiful, wonderful, awesome, a variation of over
- Crafting, Mopping - Refers to stealing merchandise to use for a ball
- Seedy - Refers to an undesirable individual
- Chopped - Refers to a participant who was eliminated from a certain category
- Miss Thing - One of the most common used slang terms, used as a reference to another individual
- Bangy- Refers to an urban looking gay male or female
- Turn it- Meaning to give it your best
- Sickney - Some shit the bitches on What's Tea.com made up with they stupid asses! And it WON'T catch on.
- Fucking for tracks - When you look like Christina Aguilera while you voguing + your vogue is late and tired. Instead of yelling out "CHOPPED!" they gon be like, "This bitch is fucking for tracks!"