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00:01:20,415 --> 00:01:21,He's ready to rush that instead...

00:01:35,138 --> 00:01:36,I remember my dad used to say,

00:01:36,848 --> 00:01:39,"You have three strikes against you
in this world.

00:01:39,642 --> 00:01:43,Every black man has two, that
they're just black and they're a male.

00:01:43,897 --> 00:01:46,But you're black and you're a male
and you're gay.

00:01:46,149 --> 00:01:48,You're gonna have a hard fuckin' time.

00:01:48,485 --> 00:01:52,If you're gonna do this, you're gonna have
to be stronger than you ever imagined."

00:02:03,917 --> 00:02:05,Hold it.

00:02:05,210 --> 00:02:08,They have to open the door.
Y'all have to open that door too.

00:02:38,159 --> 00:02:39,Get off the floor.

00:02:40,578 --> 00:02:42,Get off the floor!

00:02:43,414 --> 00:02:48,Learn it, and learn it well.

00:02:51,464 --> 00:02:52,All right!

00:02:56,845 --> 00:02:58,All right, Miss Pepper!

00:03:15,738 --> 00:03:18,Girl, give me those motherfuckin' heels!

00:03:29,294 --> 00:03:32,Do you want me to say who I **
and all of that?

00:03:32,255 --> 00:03:34,- "I'm Pepper LaBeija, and..."
- Oh.

00:03:37,468 --> 00:03:42,I'm Pepper LaBeija, the legendary mother
of the House of LaBeija.

00:03:42,932 --> 00:03:44,Not the founder.

00:03:44,350 --> 00:03:46,Crystal was the founder. I'm...

00:03:46,436 --> 00:03:47,I just rule it now,

00:03:48,354 --> 00:03:49,with a soft glove.

00:03:51,149 --> 00:03:52,And it's important to me to be the mother,

00:03:53,026 --> 00:03:55,'cause there's so many little kids
that I have to look out for.

00:03:55,737 --> 00:03:59,Although they don't listen to me
and they buck my authority.

00:03:59,657 --> 00:04:02,I still think I rule it pretty well.
They like me.

00:04:02,285 --> 00:04:04,I'm one of the more popular ones.

00:04:04,454 --> 00:04:06,And I've been around for two decades.

00:04:06,998 --> 00:04:08,Reigning, that is.

00:04:08,458 --> 00:04:11,You know, I've g***t more grand prizes
than all the rest.

00:04:16,174 --> 00:04:20,Gay people, men,
gather together under one roof,

00:04:21,429 --> 00:04:25,and decide to have
a competition amongst themselves.

00:04:26,768 --> 00:04:27,Balls.

00:04:30,104 --> 00:04:31,I went to a ball,

00:04:31,940 --> 00:04:35,I g***t a trophy,
and now everybody wants to know me.

00:04:37,403 --> 00:04:43,This movie is about the ball circuit
and the gay crew that's involved in it,

00:04:43,201 --> 00:04:49,and how each person's life
brought them to this circuit.

00:04:49,874 --> 00:04:52,It's like crossing into the looking glass.
Wonderland.

00:04:52,877 --> 00:04:57,You go in there and you feel,
you feel 100% right

00:04:58,049 --> 00:04:59,as of be — being gay.

00:04:59,592 --> 00:05:01,That's not what it's like in the world?

00:05:01,427 --> 00:05:03,That's not what it's like in the world.

00:05:03,137 --> 00:05:04,That's not what it's like in the world.

00:05:04,806 --> 00:05:06,You know,
it should be like that in the world.

00:05:06,724 --> 00:05:08,This society,
they flip going to a football game.

00:05:08,977 --> 00:05:10,Basketball. That's their entertainment.

00:05:10,812 --> 00:05:13,You know, a ball is ours.
We prepare for a ball.

00:05:13,314 --> 00:05:15,We may spend more time
preparing for a ball

00:05:15,149 --> 00:05:17,than anybody would spend
preparing for anything else.

00:05:17,527 --> 00:05:20,- Exactly.
- A ball is like our world, you know.

00:05:20,321 --> 00:05:24,The balls to us is as close to reality
as we're gonna get

00:05:24,242 --> 00:05:28,to all of that fame and fortune
and stardom and spotlights.

00:05:29,288 --> 00:05:31,I'd always see
the way that rich people lived,

00:05:31,791 --> 00:05:35,and I'd feel it more, you know,
it would slap me in the face.

00:05:35,294 --> 00:05:39,I'd say, "I'd have to have that," because
I never felt comfortable being poor.

00:05:39,382 --> 00:05:40,I just don't.

00:05:40,842 --> 00:05:43,Or even middle class doesn't suit me.

00:05:45,263 --> 00:05:46,Seeing the riches,

00:05:46,973 --> 00:05:52,seeing the way people on Dynasty lived...
these huge houses.

00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:55,And I would think, "These people
have 42 rooms in their house.

00:05:55,231 --> 00:05:57,Oh, my God. What kind of a house is that?"

00:05:57,775 --> 00:06:00,And we've g***t three. So why is it
that they can have it and I didn't?

00:06:00,778 --> 00:06:01,I always felt cheated.

00:06:02,447 --> 00:06:04,I always felt
cheated out of things like that.

00:06:05,408 --> 00:06:08,You have space
to do all that you intend to.

00:06:09,412 --> 00:06:12,Now, the categories are Butch Queen,

00:06:12,749 --> 00:06:14,one through 17.

00:06:14,792 --> 00:06:17,And for the girls, 18 through 30.

00:06:18,421 --> 00:06:20,As far as all of y'all not walking,

00:06:20,339 --> 00:06:24,please realize that we all,
at one time or another,

00:06:24,302 --> 00:06:26,have lusted to walk a ballroom floor.

00:06:27,805 --> 00:06:32,So, give the patrons and the contestants,
you know, a round of applause for nerve.

00:06:33,811 --> 00:06:37,'Cause with y'all vicious motherfuckers,
it do take nerve.

00:06:37,607 --> 00:06:41,Believe me.
We're not going to be shady, just fierce.

00:06:41,611 --> 00:06:45,Those balls are more or less
like our fantasy of being a superstar.

00:06:45,531 --> 00:06:49,You know, like the Oscars or whatever.
Or being on a runway as a model.

00:06:50,453 --> 00:06:51,You know, a lot of those kids
that are in the balls,

00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:54,they don't have two of nothing.

00:06:54,499 --> 00:06:56,Some of them don't even eat.

00:06:56,417 --> 00:06:58,They come to balls starving.

00:06:58,586 --> 00:07:04,And they sleep in the under 21,
or they sleep on the pier or wherever.

00:07:04,425 --> 00:07:05,They don't have a home to go to,

00:07:05,927 --> 00:07:07,but they'll go out
and they'll steal something

00:07:08,012 --> 00:07:11,and get dressed up and come to a ball
for that one night and live the fantasy.

00:07:13,768 --> 00:07:18,A ball is, the very word,
whatever you want to be, you be.

00:07:19,232 --> 00:07:22,So at a ball, you have a chance
to display your arrogance,

00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:25,your seductiveness, your beauty,
your wit, your charm, your knowledge.

00:07:26,781 --> 00:07:29,You can become anything and do anything

00:07:29,450 --> 00:07:32,right here, right now,
and it won't be questioned.

00:07:32,745 --> 00:07:34,I came,

00:07:34,413 --> 00:07:37,- I saw, I conquered.
- You know what she want.

00:07:37,708 --> 00:07:38,That's a ball.

00:07:39,210 --> 00:07:42,Give her what she want.
She bring it to you every ball.

00:07:42,547 --> 00:07:44,Why are y'all gagging so?

00:07:45,174 --> 00:07:47,I guess I like the excitement.

00:07:47,343 --> 00:07:50,You know, cheering and screaming
if you were good.

00:07:51,722 --> 00:07:54,And that's what g***t me.
I like the competition.

00:07:55,309 --> 00:07:56,Makes me stronger.

00:07:56,894 --> 00:07:58,Makes me think more.

00:07:58,938 --> 00:08:01,Makes me want to come back and get them.

00:08:03,234 --> 00:08:04,It's not just the winning.

00:08:04,986 --> 00:08:05,It's...

00:08:07,155 --> 00:08:11,It's the giving too, 'cause I feel that
I give a lot of enjoyment

00:08:11,826 --> 00:08:13,to a lot of people that go to balls.

00:08:14,078 --> 00:08:16,And they enjoy to see it,
and I enjoy to walk for them.

00:08:16,956 --> 00:08:18,So, that's my...

00:08:19,792 --> 00:08:21,philosophy, as I should say.

00:08:23,212 --> 00:08:25,To be legendary is, like, their goals.

00:08:25,673 --> 00:08:27,To be legendary. You know.

00:08:27,091 --> 00:08:29,Let you know I'm legendary, you're not.

00:08:29,510 --> 00:08:31,You know, it feels good to them.

00:08:31,846 --> 00:08:32,- Like it's —
- An Oscar.

00:08:32,930 --> 00:08:35,- A Oscar, right.
- It's the same thing.

00:08:35,224 --> 00:08:38,Become a legend, you have an Oscar.
It's the same thing.

00:08:40,021 --> 00:08:42,I don't really consider myself
a real legend.

00:08:42,648 --> 00:08:46,I've — I've been at the balls
with the legendary children,

00:08:46,319 --> 00:08:49,and I've stamped myself
with the legendary children.

00:08:49,238 --> 00:08:53,But I'm really, I'm one of top
upcoming children, legendary.

00:08:53,117 --> 00:08:56,We have legendary children
and upcoming legendary children.

00:08:56,287 --> 00:08:59,We're the upcoming ones. We've been out
longer than the ones that are here now.

00:08:59,165 --> 00:09:00,Mm-hmm.

00:09:00,333 --> 00:09:03,And we done, had our...
We have our status in the ballroom.

00:09:08,424 --> 00:09:11,How long did it take you
to do the tank top?

00:09:11,636 --> 00:09:12,A-An hour.

00:09:12,845 --> 00:09:13,An hour?

00:09:13,930 --> 00:09:16,- Yes.
- You don't do that.

00:09:17,516 --> 00:09:20,It usually doesn't take you an hour
to do a shirt,

00:09:20,353 --> 00:09:21,especially a tank top.

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