Paris en fuego

Perhaps a more appropriate title of the film, Paris is burning, would be Paris on fire or Paris en fuego. "Is burning" has negative connotations of some sort of destruction, while I feel the the majority of the people involved in this film are becoming constructed and setting a sort of self-positive example.

The idea to host "Balls" where outsiders can come and be there own sort of person or try on being another person is absurd as it is genius and convicting. Why anyone should need to be another while not in the profession of acting is a little bit sad. I wonder if non-minority do this sort of thing where they dress up for each other and pretend to be versions of African American homosexual people. I found the definition of the category "realness"interesting. I think it was Dorian who defined the category of realness as being "able to fit in". But in reality there is a constant struggle of fitting in and being independent and unique and I wonder why these people feel the need to be so strongly accepted.

I thought it interesting how many white american's have stereotypes of homosexual, and how a few African american have stereotypes back. One man thought he wanted to be a 'white rich girl' because they have it easy and are taken care of. The problem is that that isn't always the case and is probably the gloried version of such a person. I wonder if any identity is completely flawless without stereotypes either playing it or living it.