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Ethan HAJJI

Paris becomes new 'voguing' capital as LGBT community finds refuge in ballroom scene

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To mark Pride Month, we take a closer look at ballroom culture, an LGBT movement born in Harlem, New York in the 1920s and which flooded nightclubs in the 1970s. In Paris, now one of the world's "voguing" capitals, the ballroom scene boasts some thirty dance troupes known as houses. Who are these dancers and where do they learn their moves? FRANCE 24's Ethan Hajji went to meet some of the voguers of Paris.

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