Sydney Baloue Oral History

Sydney Baloue is a writer, producer, boxer, voguer, and the coordinator of events and programming at the Center for LGBTQ Studies at CUNY. In this interview, he takes us on a tour through the ballroom scenes of Paris, Berlin, and London, before describing his research—first in graduate school, and then independently—on the urban geography of the New York City ballroom scene. Along the way he shares stories about queer boxing, learning to vogue, the abuse he experienced in academia, and his recent writing projects.

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Identifier: 8049g551v
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
Creator(s): Baloue, Sydney
Contributor(s): Coan, Jaime Shearn
Saada, Steven
Date Created: Dec. 1, 2021
Genre: Oral Histories
Places: New York
England > Greater London > London
Île-de-France > Paris
Berlin > Berlin, Stadt
Topic(s): Ball culture
Black transgender people
Multiracial transgender people
South Asian transgender people
Transgender authors
Transmasculine people
Universities and colleges--Graduate work
Voguing
Resource Type: Audio
Digital Format: 1:07:37
Language: English
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