Other Attractions At Arizona Boardwalk
Other Attractions At Arizona Boardwalk
She was a lantern. And she was learning to burn.
Samira talked about the ballroom culture of the 1980s, where Black and Latinx trans women created families—houses—when their blood relatives cast them out. “They walked for ‘realness,’” Samira explained. “Not to pass as something they weren’t, but to be seen as who they truly were.”
Mara nodded. “Be scared. Do it anyway. And if it goes badly, you have a couch here and a family who will leave the lantern burning.”
