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Paris Is Burning

Jennie Livingston

4.9/5

A documentary of New York's LGBT scene in the 1980s, showing the real life of poor Black and Latin LGBT people, introduce the ballrooms, the categories, the houses, the voguing, and the dreams and ambitions of these people who are systematically excluded from society, they fight to conquer the right to be and to reinvent themselves in a world starring straight and white people. They use the balls to show their creativity, have fun with their community and family, shining, and having their names recognized in the ballroom scene.

If you like Paris Is Burning, you might also like Transgender-Related Documentary Films, American Independent Films, Documentary Films About New York City, and 1990 Lgbt-Related Films.

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