Outfest Legacy Project - Paris is Burning clip

Read more about the Outfest Legacy Project for LGBT Film Preservation, Outfest, and the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

And here is a clip from the 1990 documentary film, Paris is Burning, which explored race, class, and gender in the United States through a chronicle of ball culture in New York City.



"...This is white America...And when it comes to the minorities, especially black, we as a people for the past 400 years is the greatest example of behavior modification in the history of civilization. We have had everything taken away from us, and yet we have all learned how to survive..."

Lest we forget.