Ballroom culture

Tens across the board

FX’s “Pose” serves queer ballroom realness, from costumes to choreography, music to hair. The Times takes you behind the scenes.

In LGBTQ+ communities in cities like Amsterdam and Berlin, the Queer Black Diaspora thrives in an underground scene. A, perhaps, counter-intuitive idea for those familiar with the Netherlands’ history with LGBTQ+ rights, as it was the first country to legalize same-sex marriage and thrive economically from nightlife, bathhouses, hotels, and other queer tourism attractions. Named […]

Powerful, defiant portraits that speak to the prevailing strength and presence of LGBTQ people of color in the Netherlands.

It's so much more than vogueing and RuPaul's Drag Race.

Over the last few decades, the sound of ballroom has changed quite a bit — here are 20 tracks that mark the evolution of the subgenre and explain how it became the boundary-pushing sound it is today.