Williamsburg is one of the trendiest neighborhoods in New York City, USA. This neighborhood stretches from Flushing Avenue all the way to the northern edge of McCarren Park. In 1855, Williamsburg was officially incorporated into Brooklyn. It became part of New York in 1898, when Brooklyn was officially one of the city’s five boroughs, according to Insider. Photo: New York Times. Williamsburg attracts young people and tourists with its impressively decorated cafes and restaurants and bustling atmosphere. In addition, this is also a place frequented by fashionistas thanks to luxury stores. Photo: Insider. Williamsburg is adorned with street art through colorful murals and renovated factories. In addition, this place also becomes a familiar destination for New Yorkers when night falls. Photo: The Curious Pixie. Erin McDowell, who has lived in Williamsburg for about two years, says what she loves most here is the busy attractions. Outdoor concert venues, seasonal food markets, and bars are just some of the things that make Williamsburg nightlife more vibrant. Photo: Trip Savvy. According to the Furman Center report, the average cost of rent in Williamsburg increased 78.7% from 1990-2014. This has pushed low-income households out of the area. Despite a 20% drop from this time last year due to the Covid-19 epidemic, the rent for a one-bedroom apartment in Williamsburg is still up to $ 2,600. Currently, the average annual income of people in Williamsburg is 100,000 USD. Photo: Getty. The outdoor food service is one of the popular patterns in Williamsburg. Walking along the streets here, visitors can find eateries packed with people almost every block. Photo: Insider. According to McDowell, the busiest place in Williamsburg is Domino Park. In May 2020, the management board painted “social distancing circles” on the lawn to ensure the safety of people when coming here to sunbathe and warm up. Each circle can accommodate a group of 4-5 people. All are required to stay in their respective areas. Photo: AFP. One of the best things about living in Williamsburg is seeing the beautiful views near Lower Manhattan and the East River. As you walk along the pier, you can see many people riding on jet skis enjoying the nice weather. Photo: Insider. During the epidemic season, most nightclubs are closed, bars are only allowed to operate until midnight. On the east side of the neighborhood, tourists can enjoy drag shows all day of the week at the LGBTQ+ community bar. Photo: Insider.

On May 15, Fox Business reported that Maye Musk – the mother of billionaire Elon Musk – was present in the Summersalt brand’s swimwear advertising campaign. At the age of 73, Mrs. Maye Musk is still chosen as one of the faces of women who lead an active lifestyle and are always attractive at any age. Before that, Elon Musk’s mother was repeatedly invited to be a model. Mrs. Maye Musk was commented to look much younger than her real age. Currently, she is still active as a model for many fashion brands and regularly participates in sharing sessions about beauty experiences. In 2015, Maye Musk appeared at New York Fashion Week. In 2016, she joined the modeling agency IMG. In 2017, Maye Musk became the oldest model of the cosmetics company CoverGirl. In addition to Maye Musk, the swimwear advertising campaign also features many other special faces. Oversized vitiligo model Andrea Thomas is one of the promotional models this time. Oversized yoga star Jessamyn Stanley was among the models participating in the campaign. The women with their stories inspire all women in the world to be more confident and love themselves. The campaign called “Every Body is a Summersalt Body” is meant to encourage women regardless of skin color, age, body size and profession to be more confident and love their body. “The women in the campaign are activists, entrepreneurs and people who want to make change and pioneer in their communities,” a campaign spokesperson said. Model with prosthetic legs Lauren Wasser is one of the special people participating in this campaign. Two female American football players Ashlyn Harris (35 years old, left) and Ali Krieger (36 years old) pose for a photo while participating in the campaign. Jari Jones – actress, writer and LGBTQ rights activist – joined the campaign in the hope of spreading the message that it’s time for women to be shown a confident, dynamic and enthusiastic modern way of life.

Several girls in bikini, hand-passing the bottle of rose wine is already half empty. Next to that, a middle-aged man jumped so passionately that his back was wet with sweat. They all beam brightly, don’t wear masks, let alone social distance, follow New York Times. “This is the first and possibly the last dance. So I’ll enjoy it, ”shouted Nick Evans (28 years old), a legal advisor before immersing himself in the crowd. Party events in Liverpool are an attempt to test how feasible the reopening is in practice. Photo: Anthony Devlin / Getty. Since the Covid-19 pandemic hit the UK in March 2020, nightclubs have remained closed. If people want to, people have to go to illegal parties. Last summer, thousands of partygoers did this, giving UK police and lawmakers a headache. However, the situation may change soon. In February, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that thanks to the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine, he hopes all restrictions on social life in the country will be lifted by June 21. That would include allowing clubs to reopen, based on recent trials at Liverpool. Low risk Liverpool nightclub is the opening event of the aforementioned tests. After that, a pop concert for 5,000 people in the circus tent was also held in the city. Some scholars criticize these parties as the “human guinea pig experiment”, but scientist Iain Buchan from the University of Liverpool, who led the trial, confirmed the rate of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the UK. so low that the likelihood of an outbreak is very small. “According to official data, 69 cases of Covid-19 were reported in Liverpool in the week prior to the event. The risk of having someone virus-positive there could be 1 in 5,000, ”Buchan analyzed. In order to get inside, participants must take the Covid-19 test at one of the 4 official quarantine centers in Liverpool, then upload the results to the website to link with their ticket. However, once the screening was passed, the crowd attending the party freely acted as if a pandemic had never happened. Does not require wearing a mask, social distance, even using hand sanitizer. Participants must test Covid-19 and then upload the results to the website to link with their entry ticket. Photo: Carl Recine / Reuters. “It feels like Covid-19 never existed here. It’s strange and relieved to have the mask removed after a year of doing this, ”said Aidan Crisp (20 years old), a student. Adele Schofield (50 years old), a lawyer, said: “I was a bit worried before coming. But as soon as I entered, I almost burst into tears because I saw everyone dancing like everything was normal again, ”she said. Alice Mitchell (20 years old) said the only thing that surprised her was the ban on carrying hand sanitizer. A security guard made Mitchell throw it away while drinking. Buchan says the trials are about finding ways in which clubs can reopen. This includes whether people are satisfied with pre-testing and linking results to admission tickets; follow the movements of everyone inside; Uses sensors to check carbon dioxide levels and ventilation. Many people are happy to take off their masks to party in Liverpool. Photo: Carl Recine / Reuters. In March, Dutch researchers conducted a similar experiment with the participation of 1,300 party attendees. “They only see the masks for the first 5 minutes,” said Buchan. Then everyone just threw them away ”. The UK has more than 1,400 nightclubs, according to the Night Industry Association, which represents these types of entertainment venues. Many of them were forced to lay off staff because of the pandemic. Others have a chance to reopen. Fabric, London’s popular 1,500-person club, sold out tickets for a 42-hour reopening party starting June 25. The Cause, the London club, was also close to selling out tickets for the same event that weekend. Owners of four nightclubs in the UK say they welcome Liverpool’s experimentation, but feel it needs more to reflect the different types of spaces. “We are not a warehouse,” said Dan Beaumont, owner of the Dalston Superstore, London’s famous club for the LGBTQ + community. If British clubs were to reopen in June, this would be considered anomalous in Western Europe. In Berlin (Germany), entertainment venues are scheduled to reopen outdoors this summer when dancers are asked to wear masks. On April 29, French President Emmanuel Macron said he hopes to lift most of the restrictions in the country by June 30, but the nightclubs will remain closed. Many DJs have said they want clubs to reopen as soon as possible, not just because of their work. DJ Marea Stamper said after performing at the event in Liverpool: “We went to the nightclub to dance, drink, fall in love and meet friends. It creates communities and cutting it off is terrifying ”. In Liverpool, that sense of “community” was evident at 19:30 when Yousef Zahar, DJ and co-owner of the Circus event organizer, stepped onto the stage. In the first song, he included a house tune named When We Were Free. Then, when a green light shone through the crowd, Zahar played more cards Free (roughly translated: Free) , the hit of the ’90s. As soon as the chorus “You are free, do what you want”, paper fireworks were launched and the crowd began to sing along. For the rest of the night, they will follow the song’s advice. Paper fireworks exploded in the sky, scattered throughout the exciting party space. Photo: Anthony Devlin / Getty.

Sashaying (the term for how to walk with charismatic charisma) down the runway wearing fur costumes, wearing tall, large wigs, bold and impressive makeup, the performers showed many poses that made the audience fake it is interesting. Dance is popular among the Chinese LGBTQ + community. Dance origins The dance form in the dance ball flourished in New York in the 1980s. Before that, the genre had been developed for more than 20 years in Harlem, New York. The term “Balls” refers to an “underground culture”, where disadvantaged people in life choose to “go underground” to show their beauty and dance skills. Balls from a regular dance form gradually become a safe haven for the LGBTQ + community, especially communities that are often looked down upon as colored, Latin, to interact and freely express themselves. The performers are grouped into families. In which, the best or the most responsible person claims to be the mother. Their children may be older than themselves, but depend on each other with strong solidarity. In other words, the drag family, the dance festival is the choice of individuals who have been abandoned by their family members just because they belong to the LGBTQ + community. The Drag Queen is increasingly popular thanks to reality TV and movies. In 1990, pop queen Madonna brought underground culture to mass audiences with her hit song Vogue. Gay and transgender dances are gradually being loved, leading to a series of dance classes in the US and Europe. Today, the culture of drag queen and underground dance is more prevalent and popular thanks to reality TV shows RuPaul’s Drag Race (where the contestants pretend to be girls and compete to compete) and Pose – series on Netflix about underground dance, a hidden corner of the life of the LGBTQ + community in the 1980s. Recently, the Asian community has gradually adopted Western culture, dragging it into a culture imported into Asia, including Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Vietnam. China promotes the drag queen culture Today, hundreds of young people from the Chinese LGBT community, many of whom are far away, flock to Beijing to attend the ball. With categories including Butch Queen Realness, Drag Queen Lip Sync (Who lip-synced best) and Vogued Open To All, the artists will expose the The best thing for the jury. “This is a playground for the underprivileged,” said Li Yifan, nicknamed Bazi, 27, a party organizer in China. SCMP. Currently, he is considered to be the mainstay of China’s quietly growing dance genre. The drag queen culture is prevalent in China. In 2001, homosexuality in China was considered a mental illness. Most of the people in the LGBTQ + community live in fear, including criticism, legal application to homosexuals … Now everything is different. According to Bazi, those who attended a dance felt a very powerful aura flowing through them. This is an opportunity for them to “live the truth”, express their gender and sexual orientation in a unique way. Bazi said that this is “an auxiliary culture in China’s long cultural system”. However, it gradually became a mainstream trend, developed especially in many parts of China, after flourishing in Shanghai. According to Bazi, what he did not expect was the balls and vogue in bloom again, loved by Chinese women. Explaining this, he thinks that women in the land of billions are no different from the LGBTQ + community. They are persecuted by the patriarchy, unable to resist and turn to the ballroom to shake off their feelings of oppression. “I drink water, I have to go to the toilet with a catwalk” Hua Hua, 23, a drag queen performer, said: “Voging, the dance is very young in China but they are gradually dominating, developed by enthusiastic and passionate people.” In 2016, Hua Hua started to approach the prom world. Recalling the first day, the man wearing a feathered wig and evening gown came to join and become loved. Especially, when coming to the ball, they are chosen to transform into many different images. Today, you can be the elegant star of classic Hollywood, tomorrow, the complete participant becomes the supermodel of modern high fashion. And if you want to become a royal, no one has the right to ban you, even be supported, welcomed. “You can freely express gender, sexiness. You step onto the stage with the attitude ‘I’m pretty, elegant, can everyone be like me?’ ”, Hua Hua said. SCMP, at the same time posing and performing typical dance moves. Many artists find comfort after approaching the drag queen and dance culture. For Hua Hua, the dance and the dance made them feel free from the bondage of Chinese society. People from the LGBTQ + community also feel “liberated and truly happy for the first time”, after experiencing an unhappy childhood, being marginalized by the society because of gender identity and sexual orientation. is considered “different people”. “It has become a part of my life. Every day, whether I go to the toilet or even get a drink, I don’t go normally but imagine myself living in a ball, catwalk in a flexible style, ”Hua Hua said proudly. However, under the development of the media and social networks, many people fear that prom culture will be commercialized, easily misinterpreted and negative reviews. The dance has a rather tragic history. This is a form of dance created from the suffering of the generation of racism, depression, people in the LGBTQ + community abandoned by their families and society. “Many people have fallen because of stigma and beatings and are victims of HIV / AIDS. Once you want to learn vogue, you have to contact, learn the culture and history behind “, Hua Hua added.