#angiextravaganza

[hernandopride]

Angie Xtravaganza (October 17, 1964 – March 31, 1993) was born in New York City. Angie was a founding member and the Mother of the House of Xtravaganza. Consistent with the tradition of New York's gay ball scene, in 1982 Angie took the House name as her surname. A transgender performer, underground superstar and an active member of New York's gay ball culture, Angie was featured in Jennie Livingston's 1990 documentary film Paris is Burning. By the time the documentary screened to rave reviews, the House of Xtravaganza, the first primarily Latino house within New York's gay ball scene, was almost ten years old and had taken the Harlem ball scene by storm.

Arriving on the streets of New York City at the age of 13, Angie nurtured a family of "children" during her days on the lower westside Navy Pier and the streets of Times Square. Throughout the 1980s and until her death in 1993 Angie and her adopted house children would influence popular culture through the nightlife scene, the performing arts and through the fashion and the recording industries. In 1988 Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Cunningham wrote "The Slap of Love" about Angie after interviewing her and her sons Danni and Hector Xtravaganza for his novel Flesh and Blood.

Angie died in New York at age 28 from an AIDS-related liver disease. -Wikipedia (artwork by @helloworld-itseli )

[lgbt-history-archive]

Angie Xtravaganza (October 17, 1964 – March 31, 1993) and Lauren Hutton, New York City, c. 1990. Photo by Johnny Dynell, c/o @official_lady_bunny. . Angie Xtravaganza, who died twenty-four years ago today, was the Mother of the House of Xtravaganza, best-known as a pioneering trans performer in New York City’s gay ball scene, brought to the attention of the mainstream in Jennie Livingston’s 1990 documentary “Paris is Burning.” . After arriving in New York at thirteen, Angie built her house to greatness by nurturing a family of children that went on to influence the city’s culture through nightlife, art, fashion, and music. When “Paris is Burning” was released, the House of Xtravaganza—the first primarily-Latinx house within New York City’s gay-ball scene—was already ten years old. . Angie Xtravaganza died from AIDS-related liver disease on March 31, 1993; she was twenty-eight. . Three weeks after Angie’s death, the front page of the New York Times Sunday Styles section featured Jesse Green’s “Paris Has Burned,” a requiem for Angie and the ball scene generally. . “Though she was only 27 [sic], Angie had been a mother more than a dozen times. Not in the usual way… ‘a mother is one who raises a child, not one who borns it,’ Hector [Xtravaganza] pointed out. And as mother of the House of Xtravaganza, Angie had taken many rejected, wayward, even homeless children under her wing; she had fed them, observed their birthdays, taught them all about ‘walking the balls.’ . ‘It’s not just her, it’s all of them,’ [Hector] said. ‘My entire gay childhood is disintegrating before my eyes.’ Indeed, as some of the 100 mourners [at Angie’s memorial] rose to reminisce, it was as if their whole world, the world of drag queens and voguing and ecstatic, elaborate balls, had died along with Angie. . It had been a painful afternoon, but when Dorian [Corey] walked toward the shrine in her fur hat, sunglasses, rain jacket and purse, she was greeted with a huge round of applause. She was, after all, another legendary mother. ‘It's O.K., children,’ she drawled, ‘because Angie's got something now that we've lost: a little beauty, a little peace.’” #HavePrideInHistory #AngieXtravaganza (at New York, New York)

[lmbrjckdancefunkk]

#angiextravaganza #houseofxtravaganza #parisisstillburning #parisisburning #lmbrjckT #lmbrjckdancefunkk #RIP (at Western Village-Pied Piper, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma)

[mavireyes]

Día 22:"Último Documental que vi" Paris is burning. Documental de la segunda mitad de los ochentas, sobre el "ball culture" de NYC. "I want to take voguing not just to Paris is burning, but to the real Paris and make it burn"-Willi Ninja #30drawingsin30days #30drawingchallenge #30dibujosen30dias #parisisburning #doriancorey #pepperlabeija #angiextravaganza #willininja #dibujo #lettering

[shulmansays]

Shake the rice and steal the dice, Children! To coincide with the #30thAnniversary of @On_The_Marks’ award-winning #Documentary, PARIS IS BURNING (1990), @CriterionCollection is releasing a director-approved #SpecialEdition of the #CultClassic on Blu-ray. Read all about the new edition of a longtime fave, NOW, at www.ShulmanSays.com. (Photos: @Janus_Films; Inset: Jennie Livingston). . . #GetIntoIt #ParisIsBurning #JennieLivingston #BallroomCulture #DragBalls #Houses #Harlem #NewYork #BlackCulture #LatinxCulture #LGBTCulture #CriterionCollection #JanusFilms #DorianCorey #WilliNinja #OctaviaStLaurent #PepperLaBeija #JuniorLaBeija #AngieXtravaganza #DavidXtravaganza #KimPendavis #FreddiePendavis #VenusXtravaganza #Harlem #NewYork (at Harlem, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5IvOyHluAu/?igshid=6dog6zfn2e2w