Mekhi Cuffee: "A 1 night special. LIKE A FEM QUEEN. It’s the little things. Get in. #vogue"

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I decided to take a pause between the two seasons of “Moominvalley” and watch the first season of some series I was going to watch for a long time, so I’ve watched the first episode of the first season of “Pose”. What I didn’t expect it to be more than an hour long. Remember that I don’t know anything about Vogue – I’ve seen it in “Saturday Church”, I know it’s closely connected to queer culture in general, but nothing else. So, it’s a series about black and mostly queer vogue dancers in New-York in the eighties and their problems on and outside of the dance floor. The main character (well, one of them) is a (spoilers!) HIV positive woman, who left a House (vogue dancing group) and decided to create her own - Blanca. She took there all the “outcasts” – a gay seventeen-years-old guy, whose parents kicked him out, she found on the street and who has nowhere else to go - Damon; a transgender sex worker (I’m not here for that discourse today, so I’ll be using this term) woman, who also left the same house as she - Angel; another homeless guy, who decided to join, after they’ve lost a dancing competition with her previous House - Esteban. Blanca made some rules for her house and the first one – education, so she made Damon go the dance school, even after he was late with the application and the class was full, she persuaded the teacher to give him a second chance. Angel is also in some kind of strange relationship with Stan Bowes an Irish-Italian yuppie who works for Trump. Trump? Seriously? I mean the broadcast started in 2018, so it was already pretty ironic at the time. By the way, I finally saw Billy “Mr Very Cool Hat” Porter in an actual movie, not on the red carpet and it’s very nice.

Tongues Untied (Marlon Riggs, 1989)

one of her many talents...

Gaby Agis for Vogue Magazine (1983) Photography: Mario Testino

i feel my body growing another heart just by watching him 🥹💗

Beautiful Khem

I saw an interview somewhere that said this costume is to represent Phra Law which is a Lakhon Nok dance drama.

In the briefest possible summary - It is about Prince Phra Law who is so devastatingly handsome that it ends up causing a lot of trouble and tragedy which seems very apt!

JUST A HOLY FOOL OH BABY ITS SO CRUEL BUT IM STILL IN LOVE WITH JUDAS BABYY OH WOAAH IM IN LOVE WITH JUDA-AS JUDA-AS

yeah so benry totally knows all the choreography to lady gaga songs. ive been wanting to draw him dancing to her for a while

House of Muscle - Hamidiu Banor by Baldovino Barani x FACTORY Fanzine