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Your peers, your friends are telling you,
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Emcee:
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Is this the businessman of the '80s or what?
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High-fashion Parisian.
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Model's yvette.
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Chanté, chante.
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Chanté, chante, chanté, chanté, chante.
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Model!
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Thin!
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Streamlined!
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Trim!
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Model!
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The category is...
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You know what I mean!
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You know what Paris means.
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Exactly!
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Butch queen!
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Butch queen.
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Butch queen!
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[ Crowd cheering ]
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Butch queen.
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Butch!
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First time in drag at a ball...
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that's what I wanted for me.
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[ "The star-spangled banner playing ]
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Man:
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The military scene is a basic scene.
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It doesn't call for a bunch of flamboyant Turkey boas and bugle beads, rhinestone.
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It's a basic category.
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The more natural you are, the more credit your outfit is given.
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Emcee:
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Come on, now, it is a known fact that a woman do carry an evening bag at dinnertime.
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There's no getting around that.
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between "all my children" and "jeopardy!"...
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"Another world," "Dallas," and the whole bit.
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A evening bag is a must.
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You have to carry something.
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No lady is sure at night.
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With the current children...
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the children that are young... they've gone to television, you know?
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I've been to several balls, and they've actually had categories...
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"dynasty"... you know, want you to look like Alexis or Krystle.
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And I guess that's just, um, a statement of the times.
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When I grew up, you wanted to look like Marlene Dietrich,
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Betty grable.
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Fortunately, I didn't know that I really wanted to look like Lena horne.
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When I grew up, of course, you know...
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Black stars were stigmatized.
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Nobody wanted to look like Lena horne.
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Everybody wanted to look like Marilyn Monroe.
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[ Cheryl Lynn's "got to be real" plays ]
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♪ What you find...
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Man:
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When you're a man and a woman, you can do anything.
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You can... you can almost have sex on the streets if you want to.
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The most somebody will say is, "hey, get a hump for me."
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But when you're gay, you monitor everything you do.
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You monitor how you look, how you dress, how you talk, how you act.
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"Did they see me?
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What did they think of me?"
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♪ What you know, ah
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♪ oh-ho ah
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♪ to be real
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Corey:
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To be able to blend.
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That's what realness is.
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♪ ...for real now
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♪ you know that your love is my love ♪
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If you can pass the untrained eye... or even the trained eye... and not give away the fact that you're gay, that's when it's realness.
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Fangie.
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Looking like the boy that probably robbed you a few minutes before you came to Paris' ball.
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Corey:
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The idea of realness is to look as much as possible like your straight counterpart.
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Shake the dice and steal the rice!
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Right here.
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Come on, baby.
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[ Crowd cheers ]
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Yes, daddy.
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I got my food stamps and card waiting.
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All right.
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Dust, coke, base, soap, rolaids... he got it.
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Corey:
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The realer you look, it means you look like a real woman.
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Or you look like a real man...
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A straight man.
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Emcee:
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Sweetheart, with the cigarette, you're giving me a banji girl effect.
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This is banji.
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You know, the girls that be on the corner talking about your man.
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One that can hang out with the roughest...
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Corey:
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It's not a takeoff or a satire.
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Corey:
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No, it's actually being able to be this.
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Emcee:
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Brenda Xtravaganza.
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Looking like a banji girl.
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Banji.
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Banji girl realness.
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You know, one that can take her little baby brother to school.
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