In the episodes
8 mentions across all episodes - S2E3 3 · S3E1 4 · S6E3 1
- S2E3 · Susanne Bartsch · 3 mentions in this episode
Home of the house balls
- S3E1 · Patricia Field · 4 mentions in this episode
Where she heard Billie Holiday on a radio show and saw her first vogue ball
- S6E3 · Chi Chi Valenti & Johnny Dynell · 1 mention in this episode
Where the ball scene came from before they helped bring it downtown
On the scene timeline
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.
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.