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have been lauded, in retrospect, for having been ahead of their time. In a review of "Transgender Sex Work and
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article, choreographer and voguing dance ambassador Willi Ninja commented about the mainstream society's readiness to embrace facets of ball culture while also rejecting the Ball "children" due to their sexuality:
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has earned commercial success by word of mouth recommendations, its numerous appearances in film festivals, Black Prides and
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