Are you related to SLOAN?!

There was a sign and red flag a warning from god a higher source with the dad trying to assault her. And it was failed to see.. always pay attention to those before hand red flags

There’s no such thing as a murder gene. They learned from each other.

In loving memory of Venus Xtravaganza, ripped away to soon. So many hearts you touched, may she rest in peace 🕊️❤️

Paris is Burning has been one of the most influential films for me personally. I saw it when I was 19 and coming out and I circle back to it periodically. It gives me grounding to know what it was like for the generation before me and how that paved the way for me today. P.S. I discovered you today and you are very cute 😍

Omg, children from this generation trying to tell LGBTQ history is awful. Then to make it worse is when its a white child trying to tell POC LGBTQ history. Hes trying to tell this history by using “PC terminology,” abd apologizing for terms and words used back in the 80’s, early 90’s like hes going to get canceled if he dosent. Then speaks on POC history just like a privileged, entitled white gay man. Him trying to explain ballroom culture was hilarious.

I'm haunted by how cruel fate was to Venus. I fell in love with her in that film and was devastated when they revealed that she was murdered. She deserved everything she dreamed of and not what happened to her. 😢

No fluid fax here.

Watching paris is burning and the current season of drag race all stars made me emotional. Whenever I looked at Venus she somehow reminded me of Jorgeous, just the way they talked, walked, and their demeanor. These two people lived such different lives simply due to the time they were born in, it's so sad.

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Wow this brought back alot of memories of my youth. I had alot of friends that were into the ballroom scene. Great times and memories. But also alot of sad memories. ❤❤❤❤

VENUS NEVER CLAIMED TO BE A TRANS-GENDER.....SHE WAS JUST A DRAG QUEEN !

Weavers grand dad was too I thought

RIP amanda todd :( youll never be forgotten she never deserved it, the world is so cruel... i remember first watching her video when i was 13, and crying because it really broke my heart knowing that bullies could go just so far in hurting someone. i cried even more when i found out that she suicided soon after posting her video. i hated how the bullies hurt her confidence and respect so much that they drove her to suicide, and how people STILL make fun of her after her death. LIKE WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU TO MAKE FUN OF A GIRL WHO SUICIDED? people realise theyve hurt someone when its too late

Reading is a very old term. It was wide used in the 1960's and beyond. That is a term used in the Gay culture often.

Yeah till this day I can’t believe a hate crime like this happened when I was alive. SN: I was born in 1986

you're very right about the "blending" between being a drag queen or a trans woman in the 70s and 80s. Pepper LaBeija was sort of nonbinary or trans fem it seemed. but because she didn't want to medically transition or get a sex change she didn't consider herself trans, even though she went by the pronoun "she" and had gotten breast implants.

Venus was going compete with the likes of Christy Brinkley and Brooke Shields? Big fantasizer, all the way around.

As a gay person, I’m really not a fan of reinventing the language. You’re using all these recently invented terms and applying them to people who lived forty years ago. Those gay people who lived forty years ago didn’t use any of those terms, and they didn’t even think along those lines. In a way you’re mistakenly redefining them and making fictions about them. But I love Venus, and I’m glad she’s being remembered.❤

Many either don’t understand or underestimate the importance of the “houses” as sanctuaries and families for throwaway gay and transgender youth whose birth families have thrown them out of their homes. Still, in these more accepting and tolerant times, LGBTQ+ youth make up an enormous part of homeless kids. Transgender women are murdered at an extremely high rate. As a society we’ve come a long way but we still have a long way to go and the current rise of the very unChrist-like evangelical “Christians” is making it worse!

Gertrude was not her mother

The movie is bs, its nothing like the actual crime.

This made me cry… they deserved better… I watch so many disturbing movies and feel nothing, but Megan is missing, it didn’t make me feel disturbed, exactly, but it made me feel sad. I mean, when I first saw the images and barrel scene before watching the movie, I was so disturbed, I just wanted to stay home and safe for days, but after watching the full movie, I just feel upset. My brain can’t even process what it would be like to be in their place… it makes it worse that Amy had such a sweet and good relationship with her parents, and they were having fun and goofing around… it makes you understand them on a more personal level. And when you hear about Ashley Pond, and Miranda’s story, you of course think it’s sad, but brush it off, but when you see them just being sweet kids in videos, and Ashley with her little sister, it makes you more emotional… it reminds me of the “Jasoninhell/Jason in hell” case. I felt sad when hearing about it, but seeing the pictures of the happy sweet children just breaks your heart… My hope and “prayers” (I quoted since I’m not very religious) go out to Ashley pond, and Miranda’s families, and Jason Worley… (aka Jasoninhell)

Thankyou for the extra information on Venus. I watched the film years ago, but wanted to know more about her death. She was such a delicate little thing and you couldn't tale your eyes off her - at least I couldn't.

And ballroom culture is bigger than it ever was…. Like where are you from??? You fkd up a lot of information

You fked up a lot of shit, baby you way too young to tell this story.

You made a 20 minute video where all you did was regurgitate information from the documentary.

Thank you for keeping Venus’s memory🙏🏾

I saw her a few times she did jump in and out of cars at the pier I used to think damn she’s bold and as for the cops most cops in and around Manhattan was kinda nice to us and looked out also those sleaze hotels didn’t check guess visitors they just walked on through.

Stop raving and get on with the story ! Most people know about Paris is Burning as we all older then you ……👎

One correction: Ballroom culture is still very big in the mostly black clubs even more so in Europe and even Asia.

¡Venus Xtravaganza no calla!

No tea, no shade but this is more like a summary from the movie. I'd hoped to learn a bit more. For example, that shade she threw, as I heard it, was for the cameras, but not really what Venus was like at all in real life. Also as s another commenter wrote, the Candy story arc mirrored Venus's. I'd like to add that Pose completely shied away from the reasons behind transgender violence, but you did hit on it. Often times the Johns don't realize they were with men or they do realize they are with biological men and when they have "post nut clarity," they begin to think they are gay and in the black community in particular, that's verboten.

Thsi girls "music" is ass. How is she imporatnt?

Weaver’s father kidnapped and killed 2 people in California, his mother was a prostitute and he, biologically was not Ward Weaver the II kid

Hi, great job. So I lived by this God awful incident and everyone knew who it was immediately cuz he had underage parties, etc. CREEP FACTO permeated 👍🏻OC was a smaller city suburb of Rip City then but I think the cops knew cuz they plastered that giant missing reward billboard right out his door across the street.

6:31...disgusting...I'm out

4:47...12 is not a teenager

First of all. Thank you for keeping the memory of Venus alive. I came out in 1992 in the West Village. My roommate is a LatinX TG woman who is the same age as Venus and Octavia. Octavia was a character. Venus and her use to go to the place for hormones. There was a serial killer targeting TG women back then. Unfortunately, we knew a lot of girls who were killed the same way. Cops did not investigate those murders. Be careful using the term “ lifestyles” That is offensive. I am one of the last surviving members of my original peer group. My mom was supportive. A lot of my friends got kicked out of their homes and needed to resort to survival tactics such as sex work that was often tied to drug use. It was not a lifestyle but survival. I am not in the ball scene but have a lot of friends who are Xtrava. I don’t think they would appreciate you saying that they were a force as they still are. This was not the peek of ballroom it was the beginning. This scene has since got international. You could have reached out to them before posting out of respect.

this was really sad, a friend and I were watching paris is burning last night. mainly because of Dorian Corey, i had to stop mid way because it was late and a friend and i plan to finish it next time they come over, but the name Venus sounded familar, then i saw this video pop up about her and was very sad to learn she was killed. I'm suprised this case was never picked up because normally the hotel archive their guest sign in lists. I'm sure if they look they might be able to find it. Even if this person used an alias normally an alias might of been a nickname or something connected to them still. and a simple exposure to the public kinda like what they do with unknown reconstructed face sketches. if anyone still around that might know the name or the alias they might be able to find them. That is if hotels still have maintained and preserved that old tradition of archiving now that everything is archived on the computer.

I bet lots of black people were careful about hitchhiking after James's murder😢

She walked so Trish could run😇

Its not only young girls dealing with sexstortion. Infact young boys are the main target now.

I think the only thing I hate about Megan is missing is how they portrayed these girls.. it’s so sick.

This is; Magenta! Who was a bangee boy of the House of Carrington in the 80s! My brother new Venus X. Everyone who hungout at Pier 45 in the village heard of her murder, and were shock! That a house member was murdered like that! Anyway thanks for sharing her story!!

Ector extravaganza died after the second season of pose