15 The Legendary Syd Xtravaganza (Sydney Baloue)

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Remy Kassimir

Comedy, Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Sex, Funny, Learning, Education, Fun, Girltalk, Humor

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2020

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Our first Ballroom episode! Sydney Baloue (AKA Syd Xtravaganza) is a ballroom archivist and historian as well as a producer of HBO Max's Legendary who joins us to define Ballroom Culture and discuss how it is crossing over to the mainstream. We define Ballroom terms; the different categories of Vogue, Dip vs. Deathdrop, Shade vs. Reading, and the various types of Queens. We talk 'Realness' and Trans identity in ballroom, how sex and sexuality are expressed in ballroom, and finally Sex Work, lack of protection, and discrimination in the ballroom community. This week we encourage Cumpanions to donate to The Okra Project and For the Gworls. DM your receipts for a personalized video!

Not familiar with Ballroom? We encourage you to watch Paris is Burning if you haven’t already before you listen.

Follow Sydney at @sydneybaloue

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, welcome back to How Come. I am very excited for you to hear this episode.
0:05.8	I know I'm posting it late, but I'm still making it on time because honestly it was the easiest
0:11.0	episode to edit ever because it's amazing and the guest is amazing and you're going to love
0:16.8	it and it's all about ballroom culture which if you're not familiar with, you're going to
0:22.0	fall in love with. This episode, like I said, is about ballroom culture. If you have no
0:29.6	idea what I'm talking about or you're picturing like a man and a woman, like Fred Astaire and
0:36.4	Ginger Rogers, you don't know anything about ballroom culture. Stop this episode right now. Go
0:43.6	watch Paris's Burning on YouTube. It's on YouTube. You just search Paris's Burning. It's the only one
0:48.8	that's like a little over an hour long and watch that and then come back here or if you want to
0:55.6	keep watching stuff before you listen to this interview because you're like, I want to be a little
0:59.6	more educated because Cindy Belou, who is our guest, is one of the producers of Legendary on HBO
1:06.0	Max, which is about ballroom culture and it is the first reality show about ballroom culture.
1:12.6	You can watch that. You can also watch Pose, which is a scripted series on Netflix
1:18.4	and or you could watch The Queen. I just watched The Queen after this documentary. That's on Netflix.
1:26.0	Not The British Queen. That was a mistake. I was like, Queen Elizabeth? No, obviously not that queen.
1:33.8	So yeah, ballroom culture, we're going to learn all about it in this episode, but if you want to be
1:38.4	a little more educated, I would recommend watching those things. Our guest today is Cindy Belou,
1:45.8	aka Sidick Stravaganza. He is a Chicago-raised black and indo-trinodatti invoker who's been excavating the
1:52.5	lesser-known histories of ballroom while paving away for trans men in the scene for years. He
1:57.9	started voguing while living in Europe. He learned about public policy during the day and voguing at
2:04.0	night and that led him to start researching how ballroom's evolution in New York was affected by the
2:09.3	city's geography, a subject that he'll be expanding on in an upcoming book. And he's going to tell
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