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Livingston's attentive dissection of race, class, and gender in the ballroom scene speaks to anyone coping with marginalization by transforming themselves into something else.

Network Awesome: 'Paris Is Burning' Updated: What's Happening with Ballroom Today? An Interview with DJ MikeQ Network Awesome 2012

This past summer, after the curriculum director for Livingston's public schools claimed that LSEA allowed the district to present "critical thinking and creationism" in science classes, board members responded enthusiastically, with one asking, "Why can't we get someone with religious beliefs to teach creationism?" and another adding, "Teachers should have the freedom to look at creationism and find a way to get it into the classroom."

Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D.: Profiles In (Evolutionary) Courage, Part 4: Bringing Sanity To Louisiana Schools Ph.D. Michael Zimmerman 2011

She did not tell me that Jennie Livingston's 1990 masterful love letter to the New York ball culture of the 1980s would be the Rosetta Stone that I'd spend two decades decoding.

Network Awesome: 'Paris Is Burning' Updated: What's Happening with Ballroom Today? An Interview with DJ MikeQ Network Awesome 2012

She did not tell me that Jennie Livingston's 1990 masterful love letter to the New York ball culture of the 1980s would be the Rosetta Stone that I'd spend two decades decoding.

Network Awesome: 'Paris Is Burning' Updated: What's Happening with Ballroom Today? An Interview with DJ MikeQ Network Awesome 2012

Livingston's attentive dissection of race, class, and gender in the ballroom scene speaks to anyone coping with marginalization by transforming themselves into something else.

Network Awesome: 'Paris Is Burning' Updated: What's Happening with Ballroom Today? An Interview with DJ MikeQ Network Awesome 2012

Livingston's attentive dissection of race, class, and gender in the ballroom scene speaks to anyone coping with marginalization by transforming themselves into something else.

Network Awesome: 'Paris Is Burning' Updated: What's Happening with Ballroom Today? An Interview with DJ MikeQ Network Awesome 2012

Livingston's attentive dissection of race, class, and gender in the ballroom scene speaks to anyone coping with marginalization by transforming themselves into something else.

Network Awesome: 'Paris Is Burning' Updated: What's Happening with Ballroom Today? An Interview with DJ MikeQ Network Awesome 2012

The rarest album he ever sold: "a sealed first state stereo copy of the infamous Beatles" Butcher "album from Alan Livingston's (former president of Capitol records) personal collection."

Alex Vadukul: An Annual Music Hajj in New York Alex Vadukul 2010

She did not tell me that Jennie Livingston's 1990 masterful love letter to the New York ball culture of the 1980s would be the Rosetta Stone that I'd spend two decades decoding.

Network Awesome: 'Paris Is Burning' Updated: What's Happening with Ballroom Today? An Interview with DJ MikeQ Network Awesome 2012

She did not tell me that Jennie Livingston's 1990 masterful love letter to the New York ball culture of the 1980s would be the Rosetta Stone that I'd spend two decades decoding.

Network Awesome: 'Paris Is Burning' Updated: What's Happening with Ballroom Today? An Interview with DJ MikeQ Network Awesome 2012