Pride Thursday Screenings: Paris is Burning

Join us after we close for our free Pride Thursday Screening featuring Paris is Burning inside on our big screen TV at the new Bloody Rose Boutique.
Enjoy wine, beer and other refreshments while we watch the 1990 documentary film chronicling the ball culture of New York City and the African-American, Latino, gay, and transgender communities involved in it.

We close at 6pm, the movie will start around 6:15.

*Please RSVP so we can get the enough drinks and snacks for everyone.

About the movie:
In 1990, documentarian Jennie Livingston released Paris Is Burning, a poignant film about the patrons of the then-still-burgeoning vogue ball scene. A safe space for disenfranchised, often poor, gay and transgendered Blacks and Latinos in a time when it could be deadly just to walk down the street as such, the vogue ball of the late ’80s and ’90s was a site of transformative glamour, beauty, and empowerment — a tradition that continues to this day. Featuring gorgeous voguing and runway legends like Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija, Avis Pendavis, and Venus Xtravaganza, Livingston’s documentary immortalized a very specific moment in both gay and trans culture and in New York City, before both were changed forever by the dual clouds of AIDS and gentrification. (from NPR)