{"id":104692,"date":"2020-11-30T09:06:59","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T12:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gay.blog.br\/?p=104692"},"modified":"2021-01-04T23:12:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T02:12:48","slug":"11-years-ago-octavia-st-laurent-the-star-of-paris-is-burning-left-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gay.blog.br\/en\/culture\/11-years-ago-octavia-st-laurent-the-star-of-paris-is-burning-left-us\/","title":{"rendered":"11 years ago, Octavia St. Laurent, the star of “Paris is Burning”, left us"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1990, the documentary Paris is Burning<\/i><\/a> showed the New York ballroom<\/a> scene of the eighties to the whole world, the effervescent nightlife from the point of view of the marginalized LGBT+ community.<\/p>\n

The doc stressed the identity of each character, with their dreams and ambitions during a period when the AIDS epidemic was advancing at a fast pace, while medicine was running out of time.<\/p>\n

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Octavia St. Laurent Reproduction<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Among so many figures featured in the feature, one of them called attention – Octavia St. Laurent. A trans, black woman, who dreamed of becoming a model (and accomplished), but she went much further. Octavia was a trans activist and HIV prevention educator, and most of all, an icon of New York’s underground LGBT culture.<\/p>\n