Paris is Burning - Drag Realness

[@JsnABriggs1]

Banji Girl Realness! One of the best documentaries ever. Be who you are, love who you are, and don't give a damn about what people think, now that's realness!

[@avelvetcrush]

MO-DELL!!! STREAMLINE!!! TRIM!!!

[@benjaminacuna8013]

THIN

[@thebeefyleaf]

MAHDAHL!!

[@gunbuck7]

Shake the dice and steal the rice!

[@WeCaredALot]

"shante, shante, shante, shante, shante," lol

[@Mokolatee]

Thank you for posting this! it before my time, would like to watch the whole film !

[@Bonitaymorena]

thank you :) That's a really sweet thing to say I wish more people felt that way about us.

[@Tronic410]

One ounce of this creativity could set Beyonce's career steady for the next decade. There better be a heaven and it better look like this. I'm in love!

[@infantiltinferno]

@XenoIncognitos - You know what I mean! - You know what Paris means?? - Exactly: Butch Queen. - Butch Queen? - Butch Queen! - Butch Queen? - BUTCH!

[@DjMp3TV]

Diana Ross - Love Hangover

[@MassimoConnolli]

It is a known fact that a woman DO carry an evening bag at dinner time. You see it on Channel 7 between All My Children and Jeopardy...

[@TheDocwatcher]

it's fantasy .. imagination.. dream.. if you lose your ability to dream ... what do you have left?

[@silvanusslaughter]

creativity and imagination within limitation. good film.

[@2law2be]

Shake the dices and steal the rice...yes daddy I got my food stamp and card waiting

[@RetrOKiiD22]

Paris: "You know what iMean." Butch queen.!, Butch queen, BUTCH.!" lmao.! =] its a shame that the ballroom isn't as fun as this anymore...humph, where are my fun ballroom children att.?

[@Glenn1441]

@NicolaWriter Dorian was marvelous -- everything you'd think she'd be... wise, wise, wise. Great intuition, and infallible gut instinct when it came to people.

[@cjm38]

That is the late Sandy Appolonia Labeija. Yes, she was VERY real

[@NeffiLoca]

YES! THANK YOU!

[@mamitachocolate]

"Shade comes from reading, reading came first." I was on a forum and saw that quote in someone's sig and I can't believe I'm watching Paris Is Burning today and heard it. Now I know where that person got it haha. I am a straight woman but I love the drag world and just gay men in general. It's all so fascinating and fun to me.

[@NeffiLoca]

does anybody want to tell me what the song in the very very beginning is? with the town & country spot? it plays throughout the entire film and i can't figure out what it is and it's driving me crazy. i must have it.

[@neonight6961]

That's the breakdown from Diana Ross' Love Hangover :)

[@Glenn1441]

I lived in the building next to Paris... she was sooo into Annie Lennox at that time -- hence, the short blonde hair...

[@williedaniel6194]

Exclusively homosexuality they wanted me to buy a job

[@alxndrbn]

I enjoy the fact that this film is still apparent to today. Although Judith Butler does critique this rather well.

[@takerofpain1]

"One that could take her lil baby brother to school!" #DEAD

[@Glenn1441]

@avelvetcrush The 'modell' in question was Sandy Ninja, aka Apollonia. She became even more beautiful than how she appears here. But sadly, died but a few years later. One of the legendary 'faces' of the ball world.

[@Glenn1441]

@NicolaWriter Sandy was gorgeous. I loved her. We had the most fun together. I miss her terribly.

[@ReddzVoice]

@TheSouthsidequeens: Yes; PARIS DUPREE is alive and well. I think she celebrated her 60th birthday this year. But I saw PARIS at the 30th Anniversary "Paris Is Burning" Ball a few short months ago and she looks amazing. Peace and love...

[@barrett7893]

Just think when they were filming this movie and they were in her house when she was doing make up she had a body in a suitcase in her closet.. 💯

[@TheSonjaxfactor]

@NicolaWriter She was a star!!!

[@Powerfulthreat]

@schildno5 YESS I WAS LOVING THAT. "It is a known Fact that a lady DO carry an Evening bag at Dinner Time!!!. You See it everyday between All My Children and Jeopardy!"

[@whyunohave]

There's nothing REALer than having to blend in. Sad.

[@benjaminacuna8013]

Realness is what we calling passing; it’s what you had to do to survived back then and in some places still now….

[@ferre77]

@TheSouthsidequeens Yes she is living well in philly.

[@ferre77]

5:41 & 5:13 were real for your nerves!!!!!!!

[@laminage]

@delphineclemmons I almost fell out laughing when I heard that expression. Jeez can you imagine this man hosting The Oscars or any other Awards Show.

[@knightabraxas]

@backinthegays i missed all of this growing up in buffalo in the 80's and 90's .... it may be a city with gays in it but it's still isolated.

[@Kiro6666]

You could be anything in life stay in school and study well become an executive or work at White Castle

[@alxndrbn]

@javoneybaby Why do children play dress up? It's a form of expression. I enjoy how people can say this makes no sense but believing that an invisible deity that lives in the sky makes perfect sense?!

[@foxypatti]

PARIS STILL LOOKS GOOD

[@alxndrbn]

@javoneybaby I agree totally but you do what you gotta do. if society didn't segregate people and make it difficult (especially in the 80s/90s) for people to progress through life then maybe these people would have resorted to stealing/prostitution and/or drug dealing.

[@angelachaos]

come on it is a known fact that a woman do carry an evening bag at night!

[@viz1]

4.49 - 4.53 he would still be hot looking like that today. Yes!!

[@t3knology1]

@delphineclemmons hahah, he got it

[@Kiro6666]

Nooo we could become anything we desire stay in school go to college take up lot’s of classes join everything

[@aibcomeback]

Shake the dice and steal the rice!