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Paris Is Burning Page #4
- R
- Year:
- 1990
- 71 min
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We're always together.
If we're not together,
we always speak
on the phone.
My name is Angie Xtravaganza
and I am the mother
of the House of Xtravaganza.
When there's a ball, I'm always doing
something for everybody in my house.
I do that one's hair,
the other one's makeup.
their accessories.
I always offer advice, you know.
I mean, as far as what I know
and what I've been through
in gay life, you know.
I ran away from my house
when I was 14
and I've learned all sorts
of things, good and bad,
and how to survive
in gay world, you know. It's kind of hard.
(all) Xtravaganza power.
I bought her her tits.
I paid for them.
He paid for my tits.
My tits. I paid for these implants.
Shake them tits, Mommy.
Shake those tits, Mama.
He paid for my tits.
All she wants for Christmas
is her two front tits
Her two front tits,
her two front tits
And we gave her them
for Christmas. And we gave 'em to her.
She's a good woman.
She nourishes us!
My mommy is a drag queen, look!
I see!
From the House of Xtravaganza,
the Mother of the Year,
keeping her children intact,
can we have Angie Xtravaganza?
(applause)
Walk for us, girl!
Walk that runway!
This is
for Outr Christian girl.
(man) My birthday will come and I'll
always get a birthday gift from Angie.
Won't get one
from my real mother.
And when I got thrown
out of my house,
Angie let me stay with her
until I got myself together
and I got working.
She always fed me.
She can be a pain
in the ass sometimes,
but I wouldn't trade her in
for any other mother.
You know, you have to have
something to offer in order to lead.
the mother
because she's usually
the best one out of the group.
I'm Willi Ninja, the mother
of the House of Ninja.
(man) Give him what he wants!
(Willi) I'm the mother
of the House of Ninja
because they say
I'm the best voguer out.
To be the mother of the house,
you have to have the most power.
Take a real family -
it's the mother that's the hardest worker,
and the mother
gets the most respect.
As far as my naming my house
ninjas hit hard,
they hit fast, an invisible assassin.
And that's what we are.
We come out to assassinate.
The House of LaBeija
is the legendary house above all of them.
I have the most members.
I'm the most popular.
New York City is wrapped up
in being LaBeija.
So it speaks for itself.
And I am the fiercest mother
out of all of them.
LaBeija? I wouldn't be
caught dead in that house.
I'm sorry.
I don't see that house.
Only reason I see my house,
Pendavis,
is because of Kim and Avis.
'Cause both of them walked.
And at the last ball,
Avis showed her goddamn ass off!
They call them competitions,
but believe me, they're wars.
And they often do lead
to fights.
The emotions be very high.
They're very intense.
Very intense affairs.
But I guess that's what
makes them fun.
Like a good movie,
if there's no emotion... you don't enjoy it.
I don't talk too much
about the ball kids
because I want them
to talk about me.
Because I haven't walked yet.
And it's like,
well, William says:
"I want you to walk in my ball.
I want you to walk in my ball."
And I keep telling William,
I say:
"I'll walk when I walk.I'll walk when I want, not when
you want. I'll walk when I want."
And so far, I don't know
when I'm gonna walk.
I'm thinking somewhat
around the time of the Legends Ball,
but don't quote me on that.
I mean, it really causes hate,
actually, between two individuals.
It's like a war on the floor.
Like World War Three.
But the only thing about it, they're gay.
(man) Now...
I'll cut the music.
Now, I said...
I said, "Men's garment."
(Dorian) He look like
he had on a man's fox coat.
Tell this child
where are the men's garments!
I paid for it, motherf***er.
A man bought it!
It buttons
on the right side! The judges...
Someone came up
and told the MC... Are you a judge?
...that it was a woman's coat.
I thought it was kind
of silly to nitpick.
(shouting)
They're throwing shade at him!
I can't believe this!
Wait a minute,
wait a minute, wait a minute!
Wait a minute, now.
Let's not get loud.
Now, David, David, David!
(Dorian) That's the one thing
that I find faulty with the balls.
After they've laid down
these little categories,
then they try to become a stickler
for exact interpretation.
Merely a point
to discredit the contestant.
Like in the Olympics,
where the Russian judge brought to the fact
that the American coach
had stepped onto the floor
and that was a disqualification
for the contestant.
Just as picky as a ball.
So the little flaws like that,
that's because
that's a part of shade.
That's the idea.
Knock 'em out if you can.
Get 'em any way.
Hit 'em below the belt.
(shouting)
Where is it? Where is it?
Where is it? Where is it?
Shade comes from reading.
Reading came first.
Reading is the real art form
of insult.
Now, you want to talk
about reading?
Let's talk about reading.
What is wrong with you, Pedro?
You going through some kind of
psychological change in your life?
She went back to being a man.
Oh, you went back to being a man.
Touch this skin, darling.
Touch this skin, honey.
Touch all of this skin, OK?
You just can't take it.
You're just
an overgrown orangutan.
You get in a smart crack
and everyone laughs and "hee hees"
because you found a flaw
and exaggerated it,
then you've got
a good read going.
I am a person just like you.
You cut me, I bleed the same way
you do. I bleed the same color.
(Dorian) If it's happening between
the gay world and the straight world,
it's not really a read.
It's more of an insult,
a vicious slur fight.
See, see, see, there go
She don't even want to admit
that she my sister. She a bulldagger.
(Dorian) But it's how they
develop a sense of how to read.
That's my husband right there.
And that's my girlfriend
right there.
(Dorian) They may call you
a f*ggot or a drag queen.
You find something
to call them.
But then, when you are
all of the same thing,
then you have to go
to the fine point.
In other words, if I'm a black queen
and you're a black queen,
we can't call each other black queens,
'cause we're both black queens.
That's not a read.
That's just a fact.
So then we talk about
your ridiculous shape,
your saggy face,
your tacky clothes.
Let me see what you are.
Let's see. No paint!
Yes, it's paint!
It's paint! No motherfucking paint, girl!
She wears more makeup
than my mother does.
Then reading became a developed
Shade is, "I don't tell you
you're ugly,
but I don't have to tell you
because you know you're ugly."
And that's shade.
(man) Pop, spin, dip.
Spin!
Pop... dip... spin.
Voguing is
the same thing as, like,
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