Posts Tagged ‘Pepper LaBaija’

Bird Watching – Jennie Livingston’s “Paris Is Burning”

November 21st, 2011 | POSTED BY Brandi Sperry

For a period of time in the mid-to-late 1980s, first-time documentarian Jennie Livingston took her camera into the world of New York City’s “ball” scene, a phenomenon amongst minorities in the gay community of that area and time. Many participants competed in the raucous events;…