Jolin Tsai's hand-folding dance has made Taiwanese society aware of the Vogue dance style, and the second season of the Netflix series " Pose" (Pose), which will be released this year , will give us the opportunity to return to Harlem, New York in the 1980s, and learn about black gay men at that time. pain and love. Through the descriptions in the album, Vogue's "reality" (realness) category has questioned the original reality: who is male and who is female? Is heterosexuality "true" lust? Madonna released the single "Vogue" in 1990, which pushed Vogue into the mainstream, and the black queer culture, which was originally marginal and rejected, became a fashion; the 1990 green film "Paris is Burning" It also pushed the various styles of dance hall culture at that time to the mainstream film industry [1].
And this year, NETFLIX launched the latest telemarketing list season of the album "Pose" (Pose), explaining how Vogue dance style and fashion originated in Harlem, New York in the 1980s, telling the diverse stories of gender, lust, and ethnicity. It's a competition and a home: Vogue dance, House community The Vogue dance competition in the 1980s developed a different House school. Although each House competed with each other in the ballroom, they hoped to win the highest honor for their own family. House is not only a physical shelter, but also a psychological haven for the black body rejected by the mainstream. House reconstructs a new concept of "family". Every House has a mother or a father.
Anyone who enters the family must abide by the family rules. Although they are not related by blood, they are connected by a common experience of oppression. Whether it is transgender, queer, gay or other "perverted" identities, they all seem to establish a new sense of connection outside the mainstream society, and this sense of connection revolves around It's the ballroom culture of the larger group. In addition to giving "existence" to settle down, it is also used to fight the oppression of the mainstream heterosexual system and racial discrimination. Voguing thrived in this vein and opened up visibility in the 1990s.