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Paris Is Burning is, like, their... their motto or something
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Paris Is Burning is, like, their...their motto or something

Paris Is Burning is, like, their...
their motto or something

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Paris Is Burning is, like, their... their motto or something.
Duration
4 seconds
Views
25
Timestamp in Movie
01:21:11
Uploaded
Jun 04, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Bow + Arrow Entertainment,Field of Vision,Fork Films,JustFilms / Ford Foundation,California Humanites,Independent Film Producers (IFP)

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Movie Summary

An in-depth look at Hollywood's depiction of transgender people and the impact of those stories on transgender lives and American culture.
What does it mean to go into cultures that you don't exist in - Disclosure 00:07
What does it mean to go into cultures that you don't ex...
And how do we have a critical relationship so that we learn? - Disclosure 00:04
And how do we have a critical relationship so that we learn?
I mean, you see a film like Paris Is Burning, - Disclosure 00:08
I mean, you see a film like Paris Is Burning,
♪ Come on, vogue ♪ - Disclosure 00:24
♪ Come on, vogue ♪
I can be critical of Paris Is Burning, - Disclosure 00:05
I can be critical of Paris Is Burning,
If you shoot a arrow and it goes real high, - Disclosure 00:07
If you shoot a arrow and it goes real high,
What I had learned from the world of the balls, - Disclosure 00:10
What I had learned from the world of the balls,
I'm living in my new pronoun that I've... "Stealth." - Disclosure 00:08
I'm living in my new pronoun that I've... "St...
Do you know what it's like to go on a set - Disclosure 00:07
Do you know what it's like to go on a set
Your head is trying desperately to stay in the scene. - Disclosure 00:05
Your head is trying desperately to stay in the scene.
You wake up afraid. You go to sleep afraid. - Disclosure 00:04
You wake up afraid. You go to sleep afraid.
You're trying to figure out if somebody's gonna drop the bomb - Disclosure 00:07
You're trying to figure out if somebody's gonna dr...
But anyway, I did what I had to do. It was called survival. - Disclosure 00:05
But anyway, I did what I had to do. It was called survival.
And you wanna go, and you wanna say, - Disclosure 00:09
And you wanna go, and you wanna say,
It is so incredibly empowering for me to know - Disclosure 00:10
It is so incredibly empowering for me to know
Ajita Wilson transitioned in the mid '70s. - Disclosure 00:05
Ajita Wilson transitioned in the mid '70s.
And I have to make that okay - Disclosure 01:05
And I have to make that okay
Yance Marian Wright Edelman said - Disclosure 00:24
Yance Marian Wright Edelman said
Laverne We always have to be really skeptical - Disclosure 00:10
Laverne We always have to be really skeptical
Otherwise all we're doing - Disclosure 00:36
Otherwise all we're doing