From the documentary Paris is Burning (1990) to the TV series Pose (2018) and Disclosure (2020), trans artists and storytellers are reclaiming their narrative. Ballroom culture—an underground subculture of Black and Latino LGBTQ people featuring "voguing" and categories—has gone mainstream. Choreographers and musicians (from Madonna to Beyoncé) have borrowed from ballroom, but today, trans icons like Indya Moore, MJ Rodriguez, and Hunter Schafer are telling their own stories. This visibility has forced LGBTQ culture to reckon with its own racism and transmisogyny.
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The relationship between the transgender community and mainstream LGBTQ culture has not always been harmonious. From the documentary Paris is Burning (1990) to