Dans le New York des années 80, Blanca Rodriguez, figure de la ball culture, offre aux jeunes gays ou trans issus des milieux populaires, rêvant d'une vie d'artiste, une place sur la scène underground LGBT en même temps qu'une famille de substitution. Plusieurs univers se côtoient dans cette ville en pleine effervescence, alors que l'ère Trump consacre le luxe et qu'une nouvelle scène littéraire émerge, loin des quartiers populaires...
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00:00Again, straighten your chin, straighten your chin, and then you're like darting out. You're darting it out.
00:06I am encouraged to be all the things that the outside world would think of as freak.
00:18For so much of my life, I've just felt like I couldn't truly be myself.
00:23I didn't know if I was going to be accepted in the regular world, so I decided to go somewhere where I felt like I couldn't.
00:30Hey, Satine, you've got to have your foot like this, horizontal.
00:38You see, look, what is this?
00:43There's so much you can say about the ballroom scene, but simply, it's just a way of life.
00:50The ballroom is about us.
00:52We took dance from mainstream and posing in magazines and created Vogue.
01:00It's a place you can live out of fantasy that you never lived before.
01:05At the core of it, it's community.
01:06It's about being alone and then finding people that are just like you.
01:11I'm able to be true to myself in a space where that's celebrated.
01:15That makes me feel beautiful.
01:18Give him some music and pose!
01:21It's about determination.
01:24You have to step out onto that runway like you own everything.
01:28This is something that you've never seen before.
01:30You walk in there and you're going to see a party.
01:34We're here to dominate.
01:36Yeah!
01:37We've got to have time!
01:39Music all night long.
01:42Come on, my.
01:43And ten.
01:44Hang it to the floor!
01:46We're here to take a party.
02:10We're here to 850.