Talk:Ball culture/Archive 1

Makes no sense
I came to the site to find out what Ball culture is and I have less idea than before reading this site. Can someone who knows what it is please update it to provide a legible definition to what it is? This page makes absolutely no sense.

Houses
Who took out the list of houses? I'm putting it back.

Racial Whitewash
Sometimes Wikipedia hurts, and tonight I'm embarrassed at the mess my article has become after eight years of clumsy editing. The basic fact that ball culture was created by and for young people of color isn't even hinted at into several paragraphs down. And when I pulled up this article on my phone, the photo at the top was two middle aged white people in the Imperial Court system. Please go to "view history" back at the article and check out a version from 2008 for something more honest and readable. --John Stephen Dwyer (talk) 06:10, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Five elements
I know that Voguing is usually referred to as having five elements but clearly there's more. The author of this article included floor performance, which has become an element in more recent years and expressions of the dance (Vogue Fem), while awkwardly putting together dips and spins as one element. If you look into Old Way Vogue, especially at times where it used to be called pop, dip, and spin, both spins and dips showed a broader variety and can even historically not be considered to be just one element. As an encyclopedia article I believe that it ought to state that there is a mixed understanding as to what the elements are, including: peformance (which is further divided into hand and floor performance, whereas hands get divided into hand performance and arms control depending on the category), catwalk, duckwalk, spins and dips. --24.78.211.80 (talk) 19:18, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Intro Rewrite
Could somebody knowledgeable on this topic rewrite the intro paragraph to be more informative? It doesn't say anything about Ball Culture meaning specifically Drag Ball Culture.


 * Intro as it stands is two sentences. The 3rd sentence of the article introduces the drag element.  That seems soon enough since judging by the article alot of people in ball culture aren't involved with what is commonly understood to be drag. Please remembers to sign your comments, thanks. Shaundakulbara 06:01, 4 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Actaully ball culture is all about drag and working what you wear. The intro and article do need work but seem reasonable at the moment. Benjiboi 21:56, 9 June 2007 (UTC)


 * It may be notable that "what is commonly understood to be drag" and how people in that community think of it are different thing. I mean, for example, to people in that community  being dressed as a female and looking real is a type of drag that many people on the outside would not really call drag.  Most people think of Drag Queens and think of what, I believe, people in ball culture call "Femme Queen Performance".  I have a foot on both sides of the canyon and there is a difference. --Hfarmer (talk) 19:20, 8 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your interest in the article. I'm also familiar with both mainstream and countercultural uses of the word "drag" and I don't feel that it creates a semantic problem as used here.  Best wishes. - House of Scandal (talk) 22:06, 8 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Hmmm. In all humility and acknowledgment of my possible ignorance I just have to disagree.  I don't think most people would call ....say a man wearing a suit, walking executive, "drag".  I just don't think that would be called drag by most white republicans.  However taking Benjiboi's word as fact then people in ball culture would say it is drag.  Would they not?


 * Perhaps a bit more explanation is in order to ensure that even a white republican from Montana could understand what is meant by "drag" the way people in ball culture use it. That is after all for whom the article is written.  You and Benjiboi already know these things, but your audience here presumably does not.--Hfarmer (talk) 01:01, 10 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Let's leave politics out for the moment and simply propose a sentence to add or change so others can see what you mean. Sometimes articles provide a wikilink and that's all our readers need. We don't always have to drill down details in each article. Also what "drag" is can differentiate even within a house so maybe it's just that word's usage that needs to be made more clear. Banj e  b oi   23:09, 11 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I agree and think the drag article is the place delineate these points. - House of Scandal (talk) 23:31, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Sorry about that the "politics" was just to magnify how far from the scene much of the world is and how alien it looks to them. You idea sounds good to me. --Hfarmer (talk) 23:50, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

History Section Needs Additions
The most prominent NYC ball was the Hamilton Lodge ball, thrown in Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s, known popularly as "the Faggot's ball." In its mid-thirties golden age, the ball was attended by hundreds of drag queens and thousands of spectators. It was annually covered by local newspapers including Harlem's largest paper the Amsterdam News, and often featured celebrity judges from the Harlem art, music, and culture scenes. In 1937, attendance was eight thousand.

As it reads now, the section states that Harlem drag balls began forty years later in the sixties. Maybe add a section on the Harlem Renaissance drag balls?

This article in the news
This article was cited and linked in a blog, which in turn garnered more attention. Bearian (talk) 16:08, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

Ballroom Community Proposal
Ballroom Community Proposal

Since the early 20th century, the ballroom community has served as a vibrant space rendered in fostering the unitization of marginalized LGBTQ people. Yet, modern day media rarely discusses ball culture. Moreover, literature regarding ballroom culture is sparse or limited. Through editing the Ball culture Wikipedia page, we plan to provide more concise and factual information in the areas of HIV/AIDs, producing safe spaces/spatiality, gender system & identity, and the historical background of the ballroom culture.

Currently, there is no section in the “Ball Culture” Wikipedia page that mentions the fight on HIV/AIDS. Some individuals in the Ball Culture communities have reported feeling stigmatized, especially around HIV status. Ball Communities are working to have an increase in societal knowledge to reduce this stigma and have had a vital role in helping fight against HIV/AIDS; therefore, this is a section that needs to be incorporated into the page. The sources that we intend to use for this section are “We’re Just Targeted as the Flock That Has HIV: Health Care Experiences of Members of the House/Ball Culture”, Bailey, Marlon M. "Global Circuits of Blackness”, "In Baltimore, Ballroom Culture Is Transforming the Fight Against HIV." Baltimoresun.com, and Bailey, Marlon M. “Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender Performance and Ballroom Culture in Detroit.” In “We’re Just Targeted as the Flock that has HIV,” Bailey discusses how twelve house/ball members were interviewed about their experiences with health care providers and their assessment of any barriers to care due to their affiliation with the rather clandestine house/ball sub-culture. Additionally, HIV-specific health care providers were interviewed to assess their knowledge of the sub-culture. “Global Circuits of Blackness” provides an analysis of how Ballroom Culture has helped to unite blacks who suffer from African diaspora and help to hinder HIV/AIDs epidemics in the Ballroom community. It aims to explain African-American Diaspora in the United States and how Ballroom culture helps to remedy that diaspora by uniting gay/LGBTQ blacks and educating them on a health crisis that often threatens their community (HIV/AIDS). In “Baltimore, Ballroom Culture Is Transforming the Fight Against HIV,” Bailey & Marlon give insight into the Ballroom Community in Baltimore and how the community is helping to fight against HIV. An interview with Keith Holt (who is a Ballroom leader in the Baltimore community) provides a better glimpse into the customs of the ballroom community and what is expected of participants of this community. Finally, “Butch Queens Up in Pumps” meticulously details how racism, poverty, homophobia and AIDS still challenge the black LGBT community and how Ballroom culture in Detroit provides a space of resistance, yet as a combination of ethnography and memoir. This study of house/ball culture also makes for yet another example of the positive impact of liberation psychologies at work among people attempting to thrive and survive amid systemic marginalization and dismissal by out-group members in the wider society.

While there is a section currently on the Wikipedia page on the Historical Background of Ball Culture, there is information that is missing, and to better depict the history of the Ballroom culture we would like to incorporate “Vogue: A Seven-Part Guide to Ballroom Culture,” and the movie Paris is Burning as sources. “Vogue: A Seven-Part Guide to Ballroom Culture” provides an overview of the establishment and evolution of ballroom culture. As they mention, it is something that began in the 1970’s as a result of marginalized youth that were drawn out from their homes because of their identity. In that sense, youth would gather and create social networks that ultimately became houses. In these houses, the older one took care of the younger ones. With that being said, houses almost served to provide queer youth with a home and family. In addition, the article mentions how houses are structured to have “fathers” and “mothers” that guide the younger ones. Paris is Burning practically illustrates the same thing, but gives a different perspective on the history by having interviews with people that were there when Ball Culture came into being.

Additionally, there is a very small section of house categories on the Wikipedia page for Ball Culture, and while that is great—we wanted to go more in depth on the categories, and add information about the gender system. We will be using Bailey’s “Gender/Racial Realness: Theorizing the Gender System in Ballroom Culture,” Rowan D.’s “Identity and Self-Presentation in the House/Ball Culture: A Primer for Social Workers” as our sources to do this. “Gender/Racial Realness begins by providing an overview of what ballroom houses embody such as how they operate. It ultimately analyzes how the “gender system” operates within these houses. The “gender system,” as he mentions, consists of various categories that reflect lived experiences. Moreover, they are fashioned through performance. This is important because it is a term that is under-analyzed. Overall, gender systems are a significant aspect of the culture and are fashioned through performance. “Identity and Self-Presentation in the House/Ball Culture” discusses members of the house/ball subculture, which consists of a population of young men and transgendered people of color that are examined in relationship to self-identity and presentation. This article also aims to enhance cultural awareness, enhance historical backdrop, promote categories of identity, expose theoretical applications, and develop insight concerning the social network and fluidity of self within the house/ball community are described and examined. The case illustrations in the article also help to demonstrate the importance of cultural competence concerning this marginalized population, especially when considering HIV prevention and care, health disparities, violence, and poverty.

Our last category that we would like to add to the Wikipedia page is a conglomeration of what we have entitled “Producing Safe spaces/Spatiality/Performativity.” The sources we will be using for this section are Bailey’s “Engendering space: Ballroom Culture and the Spatial Practice of Possibility in Detroit,” “The Ball Scene” from houseofnuance.com, and Carrie Battan’s “We Invented Swag: NYC's Queer Rap: How a Group of NYC Artists are Breaking Down Ideas of Hip-hop Identity.” “Engendering Space” describes ballroom as space, particularly for Blacks and Latinos/as, that contends with their spatial exclusion from public and private spaces in urban settings. With that being said, this articles analyzes the ways in which the Ballroom community creates a ‘black queer space,’ through kinship and performance practices. For the purpose of this study, he defines ‘black queer space’ as the place-making practices that black LGBT people take to affirm and support their non-normative sexualities. Pulling from queer theories such as that of Sonjah Stanley Niahh and observations, it illustrates the ways that members of the queer community produce space in urban Detroit. In all, he argues that although ballroom culture does not totally transform the oppressive condition under which many of its members live, it does promote a space in an effort to forge lives that are more livable. “The Ball Scene” goes into short detail about the performance (the duckwalk, catwalk, hands, floor work, and spins and dips), runway, and realness components of ball culture, as well as other categories. It discusses “reading” and “shade,” which are takes on the typical runway styles of vogueing. At last, “We Invented Swag” provides a commentary on the effects of ball culture on today’s present artists. It discusses the struggles that gay and trans artists, more specifically rappers and performers, have to overcome today and tells of the things they drew from ball culture as an influence. This article adds a present-day edge to the Performativity, as it tells in detail how Ball Culture greatly influenced contemporary artists, and without it, how we would perhaps not even have the hip-hop/rap genres we have today.

In adding information about HIV/AIDs, Producing safe spaces/spatiality, gender system & identity, and the historical background of Ballroom culture to Wikipedia, we plan to expand factual knowledge about the Ballroom culture and give voice to a marginalized community that has been silence. Through our research and analysis of our sources we believe that we can help close the gap between what the Ballroom community is perceived to be and what the Ball community really represents.

Works Cited:

Bailey, Marlon M. "Global Circuits of Blackness." Google Books. University of Illinois Press, 2010. Web. 04 Nov. 2014.

Bailey, M. M. (2011). Gender/Racial Realness: Theorizing the Gender System in Ballroom Culture.Feminist Studies, 37(2), 365-386.

Bailey, M. M. (2014). Engendering space: Ballroom culture and the spatial practice of possibility in Detroit. Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal Of Feminist Geography, 21(4), 489-507.

Batton, Carrie. "Articles: We Invented Swag: NYC's Queer Rap." Pitchfork. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Nov. 2014.

Bein, K. (2014, July 24). Vogue: A Seven-Part Guide to Ballroom Culture. Miami NewTimes Blogs. Retrieved from http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/crossfade/2014/07/vogue_interview_guide_ballroom_culture.php

"‘Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender Performance and Ballroom Culture in Detroit' by Marlon M. Bailey." Lambda Literary. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Nov. 2014.

"In Baltimore, Ballroom Culture Is Transforming the Fight against HIV." Baltimoresun.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Nov. 2014. Rowan D, Long D, Johnson D. Identity and Self-Presentation in the House/Ball Culture: A Primer for Social Workers. Journal Of Gay & Lesbian Social Services [serial online]. April 2013;25(2):178-196.

"THE BALL SCENE." HOUSE OF NUANCE. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Nov. 2014.

“We’re Just Targeted as the Flock That Has HIV”: Health Care Experiences of Members of the House/Ball Culture Diana Rowan, Maysa DeSousa, Ethan Makai Randall, Chelsea White, Lamont Holley Social Work in Health Care Vol. 53, Iss. 5, 2014 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ashkin4it (talk • contribs) 21:14, 8 November 2014 (UTC)


 * The content looks helpful, but it needs a lot of cleanup, and to be better integrated and formatted into the existing article. I have taken a pass at some of these improvements, but much more is needed. Given the volume of this content, if we cannot get it better incorporated into the article, we should revert these additions until we are able to. WikkanWitch (talk) 23:28, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

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Hello Everyone! My name is Haadiza and I am working on editing Wikipedia through the Wiki Education project. I was tasked with adding a link to my article from 2-3 other articles. I just wanted to let everyone know that I added a link to "drag show" under the heading "See Also."Haadiza (talk) 20:03, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Discussion at WT:LGBT about similarity among several related articles
A discussion about the similarity and differences among several articles including Cross-dressing, Transvestism and other related articles (Drag (clothing), Transvestic fetishism, et al.) is taking place at WT:LGBT. Your feedback is welcome. Mathglot (talk) 22:40, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

Needs an Update
I was pleasantly surprised to see that this page exists but believe that additional tweaking is necessary to improve the article. The very first sentence that describes ball culture is incorrect because it has an international presence and does not solely exist in the United States. My next qualm is that the HIV/AIDS epidemic largely impacted ball culture, yet there is no subcategory dedicated to it in this page. Additionally, large amounts of research have been done on the music played during balls, yet the article does not emphasize its significance. Also, the sources in the Mainstream Entertainment subsection do not all correlate to the information that they accompany. Lastly, the influence that Pose has had on popularizing ball culture is poorly represented and I believe that the show warrants more than three sentences.

Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zyw6omMXQEw https://www.newschool.edu/parsons/all-exhibitions/?id=17179871282 http://oralhistory.columbia.edu/blog-posts/people/michael-roberson-ballroom-trans-sound-black-freedom 23 April 2019 Icechrome (talk) 19:23, 23 April 2019 (UTC) Icechrome
 * welcome to Wikipedia and thanks for your assessment of the this article. I strongly encourage you to make the changes/improvements you suggested.
 * You may find it useful to look at past comments on this talk page about criticisms and suggested improvements, to revisit previous versions of the article and, to go through the sources already used to acquire more information to add - for example: [1] Podhurst, L.; Credle J. (June 10, 2007). "HIV/AIDS risk reduction strategies for Gay youth of color in the "house" community. (Meeting Abstracts)" Int Conf AIDS. 1998; 12: 913 (abstract no. 43338).
 * I note there are some suggestions of sources that you may have access to through your university library. In addition the page has a number of red links (like this one), especially for notable Houses, indicating that new articles need to be created.
 * Another thing I often try to do is to be sure to include images of people of African heritage or POC from those cultures in articles about Black cultural expression. These images can be difficult to find in Wikimedia Commons because of poor metadata/curation/categorisation (which I also make efforts to improve). I put together a small collection of good quality images of a Ball held at DC's National Museum of African Art - you may chose to further illustrate the article with some of those images or others.
 * commons:Category:Vogue (dance)
 * commons:Category:Ball culture
 * It's also very worthwhile to look at similar articles on subcultures (for example: Punk_subculture) to see how the articles has been organised. See below some links that you may find useful when using video as a source:
 * Videos as references
 * Citing sources
 * Have fun editing!! MassiveEartha (talk) 23:26, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

Icechrome, I moved your new section to the bottom of the Talk page, in chronological order. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 08:51, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

Restructuring
I am moving recent updates about racism and discrimination in the ball community out of the description and forming a separate section. Icechrome (talk) 00:51, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

Content moved from Drag (clothing)
A large section recently added to Drag (clothing) was too detailed for that article, and more properly belongs here, in some form:

Ball culture consists of events that mix performance, dance, lip-syncing, and modeling. Events are divided into various categories, and participants "walk" and compete for prizes and trophies. As a countercultural phenomenon, ball culture is rooted in necessity and defiance. According to findings by Dr. Genny Beemyn addressed in their book Trans Bodies, Trans Selves, members of the underground LGBTQ+ community in large cities of the late nineteenth century began to organize masquerade balls known as "drags" in direct defiance of laws banning citizens from wearing clothes of the opposite gender. Although some balls were integrated, the judges were always white, and African American participants were often excluded from prizes or judged unfairly. In the early 20th century, African Americans and Latinos started their own balls. Ball culture then grew to include primarily gay, lesbian, and trans blacks and latinos. Langston Hughes, in his essay Spectacle of Colors, describes the experience of visiting a drag ball in the 1920s: "it was fashionable for the intelligentsia and social leaders of both Harlem and the downtown area to occupy boxes at this ball and look down from above at the queerly assorted throng on the dancing floor, males in flowing gowns and feathered headdresses and females in tuxedoes and box-back suits."

Many participants were indeed in drag. Some aimed at "realness" or imitating the opposite sex, while others represented their own gender (including trans men and women), or highlighted and satirized elements of their own gender. Attendees competed in various categories and were judged on dance skills (vogueing), costumes, appearance, and attitude. Categories included: Femme Queen (FQ) Realness, judged on participants' ability to blend in with cisgender women; Butch Queen (BQ) Realness, judged on participants' ability to blend in with male heterosexuals; as well as other categories including dancing, runway, and emceeing. Ball participants were often members of houses. These houses had founding members (called mothers) and other members who joined (called daughters). House members often took the last name of the founders (famous houses include the House of LaBeija and House of Xtravaganza). Many members were disowned from their families or homeless, so house structures mirrored family structures.

The dance form of vogueing was an important element of ball culture. Vogueing involves sharp, geometric movements, with arms, hands, and legs, and acrobatic feats (such as "death drops", where a performer drops to the ground). Voguing was the first element of ball culture to enter mainstream culture, popularized by the video for Madonna's "Vogue" in 1990. A year afterwards, the documentary Paris Is Burning was released, bringing other elements of ball culture to a broader public. The legacy of ball culture on current drag culture is extensive. Language that grew out of it is common among the LGBTQ+ community as a whole (such as terms "reading" and "shade" meaning insults used in battles of wit, and "spilling tea" meaning gossiping). The use of categories and judging can be seen on popular reality TV programs such as RuPaul's Drag Race. The structure of Houses is widely used among drag queens today, as well as associated notions of community and family. Attitudes of defiance and subversion, that were necessary for black, latino, queer, and trans participants, as they navigated discrimination, exclusion, and the ravages of the AIDS epidemic, form an essential part of drag culture as a whole.

Some or all of this should be copied in, or merged, as appropriate. Mathglot (talk) 08:14, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Agreed, I have merged in the content to appropriate sections and am going to copyedit it in another edit for attribution purposes. As an aside, it appears that content from the page must have already been added by another editor, but after looking through the page history it does not look like they attributed it in their edit.CabaretDancePunk (talk) 20:52, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

Why picture from Berlin???
I don't understand why one of the only two pictures of balls is from Berlin? The German government pays you? Is this German culture? Did it originate in the European lands? Enough with European cultural appropriation erasures. If there were 5 pictures, ok one can be from the European lands. But Germany is not important for African American culture, I'm sorry. 47.232.141.198 (talk) 08:53, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
 * The reason is because those are the pictures we have available to us here. This has to do with Wikipedia's licensing requirements. You can't just put any picture on the internet there, because we don't know who owns the copyright. But, you can upload images to Wikpedia Commons, if you have the rights to them, or can obtain the rights; once they are on Commons, then they are available for use at Wikipedia.  Wikipedia is a volunteer project; someone obtained proper documentation of the ownership of some images from Berlin, and uploaded them to Commons; they are now available for use. If you want to, you can find out how to upload your pictures, and then they will become available for use, too.  I hope this answers your question. Mathglot (talk) 10:54, 9 December 2019 (UTC)

I know that of course, but we shouldn't ignore what the inclusion of a certain picture implies and how it changes the meaning of an encyclopedic article. If there is no picture that is relevant to the places where Ball culture developed, it is probably better not to have a picture rather than put a picture from a different place just because it's royalty free. Unfortunately, African-American communities in North America don't have the same resources to promote their visual culture as West European countries do have, 'thanks' to their colonial past, but this doesn't mean that we have to be coerced into that line of thought. Cultural white-washing is real. I hereby request the removal of this irrelevant picture. 47.232.141.198 (talk) 21:33, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
 * I have to disagree with you there. Wikipedia is free, libraries with internet-connected computers are free, and many people without the resources of rich Europeans are able to take pictures with their phones and upload them to Wikipedia. Until someone does so, there is nothing wrong with using the images we have available to us now, as long as they are properly labeled. Mathglot (talk) 17:48, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

An encyclopedic entry is not an arbitrary collection of available resources around a certain subject, but rather the curation of the visual and textual information relating to a subject in order to provide the reader with an accurate, balanced and concise understanding of the entry. The relevance of a certain detail to the entry in general is crucial to the process of creating a desired encyclopedia. So, first, the question of the relevance of a certain piece of information to the entry in discussion is crucial. Therefore the argument that over amplifying the place of Berlin ball culture within the history of this North American art form is valid and relevant. In the world today, there is a huge discrepancy in availability of certain visual resources (such as professional photography, as seen in the Berlin photo on this entry) between rich European countries, for example, and ethnic groups that have been historically devastated by that continent. That is a whole other discussion that isn't necessarily relevant here, but that argument is nevertheless important for us when we try to decide whether an image from 2018 Berlin makes sense in an article about an art form that has been created by Black North American communities. We know that West European countries have been investing a fortune in their culture and academic resources and that a big portion of their investment is made towards amplifying the place of European history and culture within World history. We, as wikipedia editors, have to keep asking ourselves if and how our edits are influenced by resources that skew the entries that we are editing. Those could be hired-editors who are working for certain corporations and governments or PR agencies in general, but also the availability of certain resources about a certain subject. Saying otherwise, is really playing naive. Stormyave (talk) 23:17, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Requested move 19 February 2020

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: Not moved, clear consensus against move (non-admin closure) BegbertBiggs (talk) 20:45, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

Ball culture → Ball culture (LGBT culture) – WP:PRECISION, per WP:CONSISTENCY with LGBT culture. Per WP:PLA, doesn't Ball culture rather pertain to Vienna Opera Ball etc.? Thus better WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT to ball (dance party)? For background of discussion, please see: Template talk:Ball culture. PPEMES (talk) 18:24, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Oppose, no other balls refer to their culture/traditions/pagentry as "ball culture". This is a solution in search of a problem. Axem Titanium (talk) 19:17, 19 February 2020 (UTC)


 * What about WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT for precurrent article title? PPEMES (talk) 19:29, 19 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Oppose This particular ball culture is about African American SGL/LGBT who faced racism within the wider white LGBT drag pageants. and found it absolute necessary to create their own balls distinct from white LGBT drag pageantry. To lump this ball culture to wider LGBT culture is propaganda and agenda driven in my book. Absolute oppose. Senegambianamestudy (talk) 22:42, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Oppose "Ball culture" only refers to this specific concept as far as I am aware.★Trekker (talk) 23:00, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Oppose per all three of the above. Also, IMO, the proposed title sounds both redundant and a little silly—it's four words, two of which are "culture", all for a DAB isn't even needed. Armadillopteryxtalk 02:27, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Oppose after looking through results for "ball culture" on Google Books. WanderingWanda (talk) 07:42, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Oppose since the phrase "ball culture" really only refers to this. Aoba47 (talk) 18:35, 26 February 2020 (UTC)


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