The nightlife of the LGBTQ + community

Sparkling catwalks, splendid outfits, and burning people are what’s going on with the LGBTQ + community every night.
“Leather, sparkling outfits, high heels and pleated skirts have rocked Beijing in recent months, especially during the pandemic. China’s LGBTQ + community is creating a playground to honor them ”, SCMP opening article about the world at night of the “underprivileged”.

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.