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    <em>Pose</em> and the Uncapturable Brilliance of the Ballroom

    Amid a wave of new tributes to the queer art of voguing, Ryan Murphy’s FX show struggles to capture the subculture’s energy.
    by Spencer Kornhaber Jun 07, 2018 5 minutes
    Source: JoJo Whilden / FX

    It was one of the first great gay outrages-slash-inside-jokes of 2018: “I’m so into voguing right now.” So announced the former Disney Channel actress Vanessa Hudgens on a January episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars after watching one of the contestants karate-chop the air and then execute a backwards fall off a platform. So into voguing right now? It was like Hudgens had been invited to the conclave of the cardinals, sped-read the New Testament on the plane, and showed up declaring that the Lord is totally her shepherd. It was like she’d wandered into vogue’s history with appropriation, seen in the early ’90s when and Jennie Livingston’s documentary while paying only some of the practitioners, and seen today when viewers scream “10s across the board” without knowing whom they’re quoting.

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