Paris Is Burning -eng (1990) Subtitles

At 00:00:02,000, Character said: Downloaded from
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At 00:01:20,415, Character said: He's ready to rush that instead...

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At 00:01:35,138, Character said: I remember my dad used to say,

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At 00:01:36,848, Character said: "You have three strikes against you
in this world.

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At 00:01:39,642, Character said: Every black man has two, that
they're just black and they're a male.

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At 00:01:43,897, Character said: But you're black and you're a male
and you're gay.

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At 00:01:46,149, Character said: You're gonna have a hard fuckin' time.

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At 00:01:48,485, Character said: If you're gonna do this, you're gonna have
to be stronger than you ever imagined."

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At 00:02:03,917, Character said: Hold it.

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At 00:02:05,210, Character said: They have to open the door.
Y'all have to open that door too.

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At 00:02:38,159, Character said: Get off the floor.

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At 00:02:40,578, Character said: Get off the floor!

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At 00:02:43,414, Character said: Learn it, and learn it well.

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At 00:02:51,464, Character said: All right!

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At 00:02:56,845, Character said: All right, Miss Pepper!

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At 00:03:15,738, Character said: Girl, give me those motherfuckin' heels!

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At 00:03:29,294, Character said: Do you want me to say who I **
and all of that?

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At 00:03:32,255, Character said: - "I'm Pepper LaBeija, and..."
- Oh.

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At 00:03:37,468, Character said: I'm Pepper LaBeija, the legendary mother
of the House of LaBeija.

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At 00:03:42,932, Character said: Not the founder.

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At 00:03:44,350, Character said: Crystal was the founder. I'm...

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At 00:03:46,436, Character said: I just rule it now,

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At 00:03:48,354, Character said: with a soft glove.

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At 00:03:51,149, Character said: And it's important to me to be the mother,

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At 00:03:53,026, Character said: 'cause there's so many little kids
that I have to look out for.

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At 00:03:55,737, Character said: Although they don't listen to me
and they buck my authority.

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At 00:03:59,657, Character said: I still think I rule it pretty well.
They like me.

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At 00:04:02,285, Character said: I'm one of the more popular ones.

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At 00:04:04,454, Character said: And I've been around for two decades.

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At 00:04:06,998, Character said: Reigning, that is.

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At 00:04:08,458, Character said: You know, I've g***t more grand prizes
than all the rest.

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At 00:04:16,174, Character said: Gay people, men,
gather together under one roof,

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At 00:04:21,429, Character said: and decide to have
a competition amongst themselves.

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At 00:04:26,768, Character said: Balls.

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At 00:04:30,104, Character said: I went to a ball,

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At 00:04:31,940, Character said: I g***t a trophy,
and now everybody wants to know me.

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At 00:04:37,403, Character said: This movie is about the ball circuit
and the gay crew that's involved in it,

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At 00:04:43,201, Character said: and how each person's life
brought them to this circuit.

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At 00:04:49,874, Character said: It's like crossing into the looking glass.
Wonderland.

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At 00:04:52,877, Character said: You go in there and you feel,
you feel 100% right

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At 00:04:58,049, Character said: as of be — being gay.

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At 00:04:59,592, Character said: That's not what it's like in the world?

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At 00:05:01,427, Character said: That's not what it's like in the world.

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At 00:05:03,137, Character said: That's not what it's like in the world.

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At 00:05:04,806, Character said: You know,
it should be like that in the world.

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At 00:05:06,724, Character said: This society,
they flip going to a football game.

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At 00:05:08,977, Character said: Basketball. That's their entertainment.

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At 00:05:10,812, Character said: You know, a ball is ours.
We prepare for a ball.

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At 00:05:13,314, Character said: We may spend more time
preparing for a ball

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At 00:05:15,149, Character said: than anybody would spend
preparing for anything else.

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At 00:05:17,527, Character said: - Exactly.
- A ball is like our world, you know.

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At 00:05:20,321, Character said: The balls to us is as close to reality
as we're gonna get

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At 00:05:24,242, Character said: to all of that fame and fortune
and stardom and spotlights.

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At 00:05:29,288, Character said: I'd always see
the way that rich people lived,

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At 00:05:31,791, Character said: and I'd feel it more, you know,
it would slap me in the face.

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At 00:05:35,294, Character said: I'd say, "I'd have to have that," because
I never felt comfortable being poor.

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At 00:05:39,382, Character said: I just don't.

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At 00:05:40,842, Character said: Or even middle class doesn't suit me.

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At 00:05:45,263, Character said: Seeing the riches,

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At 00:05:46,973, Character said: seeing the way people on Dynasty lived...
these huge houses.

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At 00:05:52,520, Character said: And I would think, "These people
have 42 rooms in their house.

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At 00:05:55,231, Character said: Oh, my God. What kind of a house is that?"

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At 00:05:57,775, Character said: And we've g***t three. So why is it
that they can have it and I didn't?

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At 00:06:00,778, Character said: I always felt cheated.

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At 00:06:02,447, Character said: I always felt
cheated out of things like that.

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At 00:06:05,408, Character said: You have space
to do all that you intend to.

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At 00:06:09,412, Character said: Now, the categories are Butch Queen,

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At 00:06:12,749, Character said: one through 17.

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At 00:06:14,792, Character said: And for the girls, 18 through 30.

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At 00:06:18,421, Character said: As far as all of y'all not walking,

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At 00:06:20,339, Character said: please realize that we all,
at one time or another,

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At 00:06:24,302, Character said: have lusted to walk a ballroom floor.

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At 00:06:27,805, Character said: So, give the patrons and the contestants,
you know, a round of applause for nerve.

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At 00:06:33,811, Character said: 'Cause with y'all vicious motherfuckers,
it do take nerve.

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At 00:06:37,607, Character said: Believe me.
We're not going to be shady, just fierce.

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At 00:06:41,611, Character said: Those balls are more or less
like our fantasy of being a superstar.

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At 00:06:45,531, Character said: You know, like the Oscars or whatever.
Or being on a runway as a model.

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At 00:06:50,453, Character said: You know, a lot of those kids
that are in the balls,

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At 00:06:52,080, Character said: they don't have two of nothing.

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At 00:06:54,499, Character said: Some of them don't even eat.

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At 00:06:56,417, Character said: They come to balls starving.

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At 00:06:58,586, Character said: And they sleep in the under 21,
or they sleep on the pier or wherever.

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At 00:07:04,425, Character said: They don't have a home to go to,

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At 00:07:05,927, Character said: but they'll go out
and they'll steal something

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At 00:07:08,012, Character said: and get dressed up and come to a ball
for that one night and live the fantasy.

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At 00:07:13,768, Character said: A ball is, the very word,
whatever you want to be, you be.

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At 00:07:19,232, Character said: So at a ball, you have a chance
to display your arrogance,

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At 00:07:22,360, Character said: your seductiveness, your beauty,
your wit, your charm, your knowledge.

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At 00:07:26,781, Character said: You can become anything and do anything

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At 00:07:29,450, Character said: right here, right now,
and it won't be questioned.

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At 00:07:32,745, Character said: I came,

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At 00:07:34,413, Character said: - I saw, I conquered.
- You know what she want.

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At 00:07:37,708, Character said: That's a ball.

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At 00:07:39,210, Character said: Give her what she want.
She bring it to you every ball.

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At 00:07:42,547, Character said: Why are y'all gagging so?

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At 00:07:45,174, Character said: I guess I like the excitement.

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At 00:07:47,343, Character said: You know, cheering and screaming
if you were good.

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At 00:07:51,722, Character said: And that's what g***t me.
I like the competition.

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At 00:07:55,309, Character said: Makes me stronger.

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At 00:07:56,894, Character said: Makes me think more.

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At 00:07:58,938, Character said: Makes me want to come back and get them.

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At 00:08:03,234, Character said: It's not just the winning.

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At 00:08:04,986, Character said: It's...

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At 00:08:07,155, Character said: It's the giving too, 'cause I feel that
I give a lot of enjoyment

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At 00:08:11,826, Character said: to a lot of people that go to balls.

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At 00:08:14,078, Character said: And they enjoy to see it,
and I enjoy to walk for them.

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At 00:08:16,956, Character said: So, that's my...

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At 00:08:19,792, Character said: philosophy, as I should say.

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At 00:08:23,212, Character said: To be legendary is, like, their goals.

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At 00:08:25,673, Character said: To be legendary. You know.

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At 00:08:27,091, Character said: Let you know I'm legendary, you're not.

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At 00:08:29,510, Character said: You know, it feels good to them.

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At 00:08:31,846, Character said: - Like it's —
- An Oscar.

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At 00:08:32,930, Character said: - A Oscar, right.
- It's the same thing.

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At 00:08:35,224, Character said: Become a legend, you have an Oscar.
It's the same thing.

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At 00:08:40,021, Character said: I don't really consider myself
a real legend.

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At 00:08:42,648, Character said: I've — I've been at the balls
with the legendary children,

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At 00:08:46,319, Character said: and I've stamped myself
with the legendary children.

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At 00:08:49,238, Character said: But I'm really, I'm one of top
upcoming children, legendary.

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At 00:08:53,117, Character said: We have legendary children
and upcoming legendary children.

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At 00:08:56,287, Character said: We're the upcoming ones. We've been out
longer than the ones that are here now.

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At 00:08:59,165, Character said: Mm-hmm.

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At 00:09:00,333, Character said: And we done, had our...
We have our status in the ballroom.

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At 00:09:08,424, Character said: How long did it take you
to do the tank top?

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At 00:09:11,636, Character said: A-An hour.

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At 00:09:12,845, Character said: An hour?

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At 00:09:13,930, Character said: - Yes.
- You don't do that.

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At 00:09:17,516, Character said: It usually doesn't take you an hour
to do a shirt,

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At 00:09:20,353, Character said: especially a tank top.

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