🗓️ Thu 17 Nov (Week 7)
🕖 7-10pm
🗺️ L4 (Chemistry/Science Concourse, Second Floor)
This event is hosted by Warwick SU Trans Officer, Ella.

For Trans Awareness Week, we are holding a screening of "Paris Is Burning", a 1990 documentary film directed by Jennie Livingston. It explores New York's LGBT scene in the 1980s, showing the real life of poor Black and Latin LGBT people. It introduces the ballrooms, the categories, the houses, the voguing, and the dreams and ambitions of these people who are systematically excluded from society and their fight to conquer the right to be and to reinvent themselves in a world starring straight and white people. They use the balls to show their creativity, have fun with their community and family, shining, and having their names recognized in the ballroom scene. Critics consider the film to be an invaluable documentary of the end of the "Golden Age" of New York City drag balls, and a thoughtful exploration of race, class, gender, and sexuality in America.

🎞️ You can watch the trailer here and learn more here.
⚠️ This film explores some pretty heavy topics, including AIDS, racism, poverty, violence and death, and homophobia/transphobia. You can find crowd-sourced content warnings on "Does the Dog Die?" here. You may leave the screening at any time if you need to, and you are always able to contact one of Pride's welfare officers for support.

🤫 We ask that everyone attending is respectful and keeps talking to a minimum during the screening.

👪 Everyone is welcome!