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they come from such sad backgrounds, you know - broken homes or no home at all.
And then the few that do have family, when the family finds that they're gay, they "X" them completely.
[ Indistinct talking ]
Corey:
A house?
Let's see if we can put it down sharply.
They're families.
You can say that.
For a lot of children who don't have families.
But this is a new meaning of "family."
The hippies had families, and no one thought nothing about it.
It wasn't a question of a man and a woman and children, which we grew up knowing as a family.
It's a question of a group of human beings in a mutual bond.
[ Up-tempo dance music plays ]
You know what a house is?
I'll tell you what a house is.
A house is a gay street gang.
Now, where street gangs get their rewards from street fights, a gay house street-fights at a ball.
And you street-fight at a ball by walking in the categories.
The houses started because you wanted a name.
The people that the houses are named after were ball walkers who became known for winning.
Emcee:
Work...
Paris...
Dupree.
Corey:
After the first few houses were started and named after people who had won trophies, they also would create houses.
Like, a new group of kids would just create a house, then they'd work at building its name up, which worked... the house of Xtravaganza, the house of Saint Laurent.
Overness.
Pendavis.
Adonis.
Lamay.
Pendavis.
Saint Laurent, of course.
[ Laughs ]
Dupree.
They saw me, and they all liked me... all the rest of the Xtravaganzas... and they decided, "well, if you want to become an Xtravaganza",
"you have to walk a ball for us.
"And if you snatch a trophy, then you can become the Xtravaganza."
That's how it's supposed to work with any... everyone.
But, uh...
Like, that wasn't with me.
I just became an Xtravaganza.
He's the one who started the house.
He was the first gay man I ever met.
The first time he took me to the village... which was my birthday...
I had just turned 15 years old.
And he threw a party for me out there.
He bought me a cake.
I met a lot of drag queens, transvestites, that I didn't believe were because they were so beautiful.
And that kind of sunk into my head.
And I guess that's why it kind of made me want to even do it more.
They treat each other like sisters, mm-hmm.
Sisters...
Or brothers...
Or mothers or...
You know, like, I say, "oh, that's my sister,"
because she's gay, too, and I'm gay, and she's a drag queen or whatever.
Man:
My mother is Angie Xtravaganza, and my father is David Xtravaganza.
The house of Xtravaganza has done a lot.
It's made me feel like I have a family.
We're always together.
We're always... if we're not together, we always speak on the phone.
My name is Angie Xtravaganza, and I am the mother of the house of Xtravaganza.
When there's a ball,
I'm always doing something for everybody in my house.
I do that one's hair, the other one's makeup.
Their accessories.
I always offer advice.
You know, I mean, as far as what I know and what I've been through in gay life.
You know, I ran away from my house when I was 14, and I've learned all sorts of things... good and bad.
And how to survive in gay world, you know, it's kind of hard.
All:
Xtravaganza power!
I bought her her tits.
I paid for them.
♪ her two front tits, her two front tits ♪
Our mother even nurses us!
She's a good woman.
♪ My mommy is a drag queen, look, I say ♪
Emcee:
From the house of xtravaganza, for "mother of the year,"
keeping her children intact, can we have Angie xtravaganza?
[ Cheers and applause ]
Work for us, girl.
Work that runway.
This is from Andre Christian, girl.
Man:
My birthday will come, and I always get a birthday gift from Angie.
Won't get one from my real mother.
Like when I got thrown out of my house,
Angie let me stay with her until I got myself together, and I got working.
She always fed me.
She can be a pain in the ass at times, but I wouldn't trade her in for any other mother.
Emcee:
Ninja.
Ninja:
You know, you have to have something to offer in order to lead.
because she's usually the best one out of the group.