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I'd always see the way that rich people lived.
And I'd feel it more, you know... it would slap me in the face.
I'd say, "I'd have to have that."
Because I never felt comfortable being poor.
Or even middle class doesn't suit me.
Seeing the riches, seeing the way people on "dynasty" lived...
And I would think,
"these people have 42 rooms in their house.
Oh, my God.
What kind of a house is that?"
And we've got three.
So why is it that they can have it and I didn't?
I always felt cheated out of things like that.
Emcee:
You have space to do all that you intend to.
Now, the categories are... butch queen, 1 through 17.
And for the girls, 18 through 30.
As far as all of y'all not walking, please realize that we all...
at one time or another... have lusted to walk a ballroom floor.
So give the patrons and the contestants, you know, a round of applause for nerve.
'Cause with y'all vicious mother[Bleep], it do take nerve.
Believe me.
We're not going to be shady, just fierce.
Those balls are more or less like our fantasy of being a superstar.
You know, like the oscars or whatever.
Or being on a runway as a model.
You know, a lot of those kids that are in the balls, they don't have two of nothing.
Some of them don't even eat.
They come to balls starving.
And they sleep in the under-21, or they sleep on the pier or wherever.
They don't have a home to go to.
But they'll go out, and they'll steal something and get dressed up and come to a ball for that one night and live the fantasy.
[ Up-tempo dance music plays ]
Man:
A ball is the very word... whatever you want to be, you be.
So at a ball, you have a chance to display your arrogance, your seductiveness, your beauty, your wit,
You can become anything and do anything right here, right now, and it won't be questioned.
I came.
I saw.
I conquered.
Emcee:
Give her what she want.
She'll bring it to you every ball.
Why y'all gagging so?
Pendavis:
I guess I like the excitement.
You know, it's them cheering and screaming if you were good.
And that's what got me, 'cause I like the competition.
Makes me stronger.
It makes me think more.
Makes me want to come back and get them.
It's not just the winning.
It's... it's the giving, too.
'Cause I feel that I give a lot of enjoyment to a lot of people that go to balls.
And they enjoy to see it, and I enjoy to walk for them.
So that's my...
Philosophy, as I should say.
Man:
To be legendary is like... their goal is to be legendary.
You know, let you know, "I'm legendary, you're not."
That's... you know, it feels good to them.
An Oscar.
A Oscar, right.
It's the same thing.
You know?
Become a legend...
you have an Oscar.
It's the same thing.
Man:
I don't really consider myself a real legend.
I...
I've been at the balls with the legendary children, and I've stamped myself with the legendary children.
But I'm really...
I'm one of top, upcoming children...
legendary.
You have legendary children and upcoming legendary children.
Right.
We're the upcoming ones.
We've been out longer than the ones that are here now.
And we done had our... we have our status in the ballroom.
How long did it take you to do the tank top?
An hour?
Yes.
You don't do that.
It usually doesn't take you an hour to do a shirt, especially a tank top?
Mnh-mnh.
That's not your speed.
Emcee:
Kim pendavis!
[ Dance music plays ]
Statement... future legend.
Kim and me have...
we've been together... and it's more or less me,
I'm the one that's Kim's protége, because I go with Kim to the balls, help him out, help him iron.
'Cause if I don't go to a ball with him and iron,
I mean, he'll be here wrinkled.
Or he'd be there ironing.
But, you know, it helps out when somebody else is there in your corner, at your side, to say, "yeah, you can do it."
"You're gonna be fine.
Just go out there and do what you usually do."