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I came across this clip back in the summer time and the first thing that it made me think of is Paris is Burning, one of the best and to my knowledge only queer oriented documentaries about the Voguin’, Ball extravaganza’s of the 80’s where fashion, dance and attitude were the only thing that meant shit to anybody and everybody who was apart of the community and attended the balls. Since the 80’s though, there hasn’t been much of a recreation of this trend of creating a “house” of clever and creative people in Canada. Back in the day, a house by virtue was a family consisting of a mother and father (all of which are gay or transgendered) who literally lived for the glitz and glamour of the show life. All these people did was create fabulous lifestyles for themselves in order to win competitons at “Ball”, which is like a gala of the queer. Below, House of Dangerkat does something a bit different, they have created a house of creative minds, but use all of their talents to produce dance performances. The idea has turned out to be lucrative, not only do the leads live recreationally, but they travel as well to places like london and paris. It is about time that Toronto starts creating these similar houses, because there are too many creative that should be putting their forces to good use to create something fabulous in our tiny screw-face, no love givin’ city of T.O.

~ by F.A. Morrison on February 20, 2009.