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From the ballroom culture of Paris is Burning (which gave us voguing and modern drag) to the punk rock aesthetics of bands like Against Me! (fronted by trans icon Laura Jane Grace), trans visibility has shaped queer art. Ballroom culture, specifically, was a sanctuary for Black and Latinx trans women who were rejected by their families and society. In the balls, they found not just community, but a family (houses) where they could walk categories, express hyper-femininity, and be declared "realness." Today, mainstream media’s obsession with RuPaul’s Drag Race owes a massive cultural debt to the trans pioneers who built the runway.