Calvin Harris teamed up with Sam Smith's new single "Promises" video turned out. The same is true of people in Asia, Australia has legalized same-sex marriage at the end of last year, Taiwan is still waiting, but Malaysia has just publicly flogged two lesbians who had sexual contact, causing an uproar in the Western world. One's own "Young Mother is a Chinese Mother" is on the hot search. At the same time, the Voguers on the other side hung up all over the place, and fervently praised the Voguing that swept the global pop culture in the late 1980s in New York.
In addition to the two male protagonists, several Voguers who participated in "Pose" were also invited to join.
The video, directed by British director Emil Nava, turns a warehouse into a dance floor, in addition to a rudimentary flyover and roof. Although it is a tribute to the underground dance floor culture of the 1980s, the director still knows what the millennial group likes, and there are still many very Instagrammable installations in the video.
The background outline of the video is so familiar that "Pose" is about the dance forest convention of the underground transgender people in New York in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Here, a group of transgender people seem to have their own colorful community life, but they are actually more of a time to lick their wounds alone. There are teenagers who were kicked out of their homes after their fathers found out about their sexual orientation. After being adopted by his "mother", going to dance school was the only way for him to live out what he wanted.
There is a mother who looks beautiful, but is financially strapped, and needs to sell her color to make money for sex-change surgery.
There are ambitious mothers who want to form their own team and want to make a comeback from the dance party; as a transgender, although they also love men, in that era, even walking into a gay bar would be discriminated against. "Did you know? LGBT also has a chain of discrimination."
What is the story of a sex worker who is waiting to land and meets a married straight male client?
The main characters in this play are all played by real transgender people, and the group performances are also Voguers who are active in New York. They will interpret the prosperity of that era and the desolation after the fireworks, which can naturally convey the characters' mental journey more naturally.
It's been 28 years since Madonna introduced Voguing to the world. The single "Vogue" was nominated for multiple nominations that year, but it has passed the test of time and became one of the most successful works of Madonna's personal career. My favorite is "Vogue" by Madonna at the 1990 MTV Awards. In this scene, she restored the court dress of Queen Mary of France, creating a luxurious and prostitute side of the royal family. Wearing high heels and whale bones during the performance, the fan and the microphone must be taken into account in the non-stop dance steps, as well as the movement of throwing the fan and connecting it firmly. If you miss the slightest, you will lose the whole game. Yet she did, and Madonna was worthy of being Madonna.
The post-90s newcomers who grew up listening to Madonna back then have also made their debut.
The influence of Voguing is only in music and drama. The Japanese version of "Vogue" shows Voguing over and over in a group of "How to vogue for Vogue". ?
Voguing is also a small step in life. A cartoonist in Taiwan intimately guides how to fall and be fashionable, how to be caught in a door, and how to get wet in the rain.
Straight men and women of steel can also Voguing.
At the end of 2015, Tom Ford's fashion release for the next season is no longer a buyer's special show for fashion week runways or bloggers, but a new single with Lady Gaga. The song "I Want Your Love" is a cover of Chic's song from the 1970s girl group, and called Lady Gaga herself and a group of models to dance on the flyover. In Tom Ford's own words, music tapes are a more watched medium than fashion shows. Why spend five times as long on the runway when you can show an entire collection of clothes in four minutes? Although it is a music video, the models are unequivocal, with Ju Xiaowen, Lexi Boling, Mica Arganaraz, Valery Kaufman, Lida Fox and Lucky Blue all in place. The photos captured on the spot in the studio are the official fashion show. This is the first time for such a casual and flamboyant fashion show. The point is that it really goes well with Tom Ford, who is "showy and expensive".
This isn't the first time Lady Gaga has been Voguing, either. She brought in the universe's Drag Queen RuPaul to sing with her when she performed "Fashion!" from her album on stage.
Back to "Pose", "Promise" pays tribute to the LQBT dance floor culture and Voguers who only dared to riot in the underground in the past. There are a few Voguers in the video that deserve attention.
Kevin Stea, 48, has lived through the Voguing era firsthand. Since her debut, she has been supporting dancers such as Madonna, Prince, Michael Jackson, Ricky Martin, Beyoncé, Cher, Lady Gaga, etc.
He is also a professional model and has walked for Fendi, Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein, Jean Paul Gaultier and more, as well as guest performers for Thierry Mugler and Gucci.
Carlos Lanvin, who starred in "Promoises", joined the shooting of "Pose". He said that "Voguing finally gave me a place to express myself." In addition to the film, he has participated in music festivals and Salsa festivals many times, and is one of the organizers of the underground dance in Los Angeles.
Dashaun Lanvin calls himself King of Vogue, and from the name point of view, he and Carlos Lanvin should belong to the same "Lanvin House". As in Pose, this group usually has its own community, living together and competing in the name of family.
As a popular Voguing Artist in New York, Kia Labeija has appeared in "Pose". Her mother had HIV, so Kia was born with HIV as well. Kia Labeija is committed to promoting HIV prevention, and in addition to public speaking on campus and in the library, Voguing is her way of expressing her community's cultural and political stance.
Proud of her black identity, she has been photographed by Dove, MAC, H&M and Gucci.
I have also wondered why Pride has to be so arrogant. One of the answers that made me convince me is to wear the most unimaginable and taboo clothes for ordinary men, such as pink, not to mention exaggerated fans, feathers, eye shadows. , thus proudly telling the society "Look, who I am doesn't bother me at all, even if I dress up like this, I'm still proud from the bottom of my heart."
In 8012, many people who used to run Pride in a different country every year don't participate much anymore. There's a reason why Pride has now become an all-muscle trade show, losing its original purpose of showing diversity; others believe that fewer people attending Pride is a good thing, showing that the LGBTQ community has already gotten what they've been fighting for over the past few decades. Equal rights. Actually depends on where. Today a Commonwealth country will flog LGBT people, and tomorrow there is no guarantee that any country will re-write homosexuality as mental illness. If women's safety and rights cannot be protected by themselves, how can we talk about an equal future for LGBTQ people.
Who doesn't love the phrase "Live! Work! POSE!"? So with today's rainbow flag flying, please also pay tribute to Voguers.
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There is no such thing as "pro-gay" at all, why should I support it? If someone is drinking water, I walk over and say, support you to drink water, the other party may be inexplicable. What I stand for is the right of gays and lesbians to freely choose their sexuality and to express their way of life, in short, individual rights, not gay or not. What is a personal right is someone's own private affairs, who to sleep with, how to sleep, as long as it is two adults, as long as you want, others can't interfere, just like other people drink water, hot and cold water, unless he is a patient, you are. Doctor, otherwise your opinion is superfluous. Homosexuality neither benefits nor harms me, neither promotes nor impairs the well-being of society, has no provable correlation to the growth of life and spiritual value, nor any evidence to detract from it, in a word. In the end, it is just a personal life that has nothing to do with others. In this case, it is nothing special, but it is sacred and inviolable. What really needs to be noticed is that the psychological tendency of "unaccustomed to" is a general weakness of human nature. It is also human nature to have a life style that you admire in your mind. The difference between people is often only that smart people know how to restrain, and mediocrity. People just don't understand the sense of proportion, and the distinction between superior and inferior education is often nothing more than this. Acknowledging this is tantamount to acknowledging that we are not smart, so we need the help of a little smart thing, which is called "realm power awareness". This is why the principle of "inviolability of individual rights" must become a social consensus, and why we must abide by it as an internalized moral law. If this rule continues to not be widely recognized, then firstly, the rights of others are blurred, and others are hell. The closer people are, the more they can interfere with your right of choice in the name of care and advice, original family issues, and intimate relationship issues. And so on, they continue to torture countless people, almost everyone if I want to say; second, the circle of power among groups is blurred. For example, online groups often defend justice, patriotism, or public order and good customs, but in fact, they harbor malicious intentions, bullying the few with more, and becoming violent, never ending Stop; third, the powers and the powers are blurred, the people are ignorant and the people are obedient, and the public power is unscrupulous, whether it is individual rights or social rights, it is eroded step by step, and it is long and Wang Shu. As the saying goes, if two or more people meet, there will be politics, "distribution" is politics, and "power circles" are rules. It's not a big deal for an undisclosed relevant department to softly discriminate against a minority group, but the virus does not discriminate. What does it mean to support homosexuality? In an ideal society, supporting personal affairs is probably just reckless. This is that the neighbor has been asked to take off the jewelry, so will the next step be forced to register? The next step might be to wear a yellow armband. I'm timid, but not stupid, I'm worried that one day everyone will To fall to Auschwitz. This is supporting each of us in a society at risk.
Li Haipeng, on Sina Weibo in April 2018
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