Paris Is Burning

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Full of iconic quotes that have shaped the queer lexicon, Jennie Livingston’s seminal documentary captures the ballroom scene of 1980s New York in all its vivacious joy and heartbreaking precarity. Carved out of sequins and solidarity, its safe havens are where fantasies become gloriously real.

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