1 00:00:21,819 --> 00:00:23,703 BLANCA: Why are we the only ones out here? 2 00:00:23,761 --> 00:00:25,181 PRAY TELL: Who wants to come to the most 3 00:00:25,268 --> 00:00:26,477 remote part of New York? 4 00:00:26,565 --> 00:00:28,320 You'd think people would come to pay their respects. 5 00:00:28,407 --> 00:00:30,743 Out of sight, out of mind. 6 00:00:30,982 --> 00:00:32,485 (exhales) I'm tired. 7 00:00:32,704 --> 00:00:34,563 I've been to three funerals this week. 8 00:00:34,651 --> 00:00:36,352 Three. Where's the cure? 9 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:38,521 BLANCA: Look, we got to keep it together today, Pray. 10 00:00:38,609 --> 00:00:40,458 We got a long day ahead of us. 11 00:00:40,546 --> 00:00:41,813 I know. 12 00:00:41,901 --> 00:00:43,634 I'm sorry, I just... 13 00:00:44,679 --> 00:00:46,438 It upsets me. 14 00:00:48,438 --> 00:00:51,987 (door opens, closes) 15 00:01:06,313 --> 00:01:09,688 His name is... was Keenan. 16 00:01:09,938 --> 00:01:11,088 Keenan Howard. 17 00:01:11,175 --> 00:01:13,540 I'm here to see... his burial site. 18 00:01:13,628 --> 00:01:15,376 He's a relation of yours? 19 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:17,635 Not exactly. 20 00:01:18,347 --> 00:01:21,079 We dated, we broke up. Listen. 21 00:01:21,198 --> 00:01:22,266 He died of pneumonia 22 00:01:22,354 --> 00:01:25,923 - and I was told he was buried here. - Here's the thing. 23 00:01:26,105 --> 00:01:27,587 Names don't matter here. 24 00:01:27,726 --> 00:01:29,673 Just a bunch of pine boxes in a ditch. 25 00:01:29,776 --> 00:01:31,952 - So no headstones? - Welcome to Hart Island. 26 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:33,727 Just a mass grave of people whose families 27 00:01:33,815 --> 00:01:34,954 couldn't afford a burial 28 00:01:35,042 --> 00:01:37,188 or unclaimed bodies from the morgue. 29 00:01:37,320 --> 00:01:39,907 Infants are out back in Potter's Field. 30 00:01:39,995 --> 00:01:42,102 We quarantine the ones that died of AIDS, 31 00:01:42,190 --> 00:01:43,846 don't want them infecting anyone else, you know. 32 00:01:43,933 --> 00:01:45,848 But they're already dead. 33 00:01:46,129 --> 00:01:48,009 Sweetie, we don't know how this thing is spread. 34 00:01:51,138 --> 00:01:52,470 Come on, Pray. 35 00:01:56,769 --> 00:01:58,771 (machinery clanking in distance) 36 00:02:11,514 --> 00:02:13,618 How did Keenan end up here? 37 00:02:14,563 --> 00:02:17,220 - I thought he had family. - No. 38 00:02:17,308 --> 00:02:19,431 Orphaned just like the rest of us. 39 00:02:20,288 --> 00:02:22,595 After we broke up, I heard that he had gotten sick 40 00:02:22,683 --> 00:02:24,188 and I tried to reach out. 41 00:02:26,948 --> 00:02:28,696 But I think that he... 42 00:02:29,278 --> 00:02:31,126 he was embarrassed... 43 00:02:31,955 --> 00:02:33,618 about getting sick. 44 00:02:35,782 --> 00:02:37,493 He died alone. 45 00:02:38,338 --> 00:02:41,274 In that tiny studio apartment. 46 00:02:41,907 --> 00:02:43,876 In the dead of summer. 47 00:02:44,255 --> 00:02:46,626 Three weeks before anybody found him. 48 00:02:48,029 --> 00:02:49,970 Was lying in the heat for so long, 49 00:02:50,058 --> 00:02:51,585 I heard that his body 50 00:02:51,673 --> 00:02:53,649 - just melted into the mattress. - Mm-mmm, mm-mmm. 51 00:02:53,816 --> 00:02:56,110 I'm not settling for this, Pray. 52 00:02:56,984 --> 00:02:58,938 We got to do something. 53 00:02:59,584 --> 00:03:01,071 - Right? - Yeah. 54 00:03:01,212 --> 00:03:02,462 (sniffles) 55 00:03:07,221 --> 00:03:09,312 PRAY TELL: Only way this isn't gonna be our reality 56 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:11,056 is if we help each other. 57 00:03:11,144 --> 00:03:14,532 'Cause they sure as hell aren't gonna do anything. Trust. 58 00:03:17,256 --> 00:03:18,860 There it is. 59 00:03:24,725 --> 00:03:28,337 Judy told me about this place and I didn't believe her. 60 00:03:28,425 --> 00:03:31,009 She... she said this island 61 00:03:31,097 --> 00:03:33,232 used to be a tuberculosis ward. 62 00:03:34,813 --> 00:03:37,029 Now it's a burial site. (sniffles) 63 00:03:37,529 --> 00:03:39,737 Each one of these heart-shaped rocks 64 00:03:39,825 --> 00:03:41,626 represents someone buried here, 65 00:03:41,775 --> 00:03:44,778 left by someone left behind. 66 00:03:58,294 --> 00:03:59,695 (kisses) 67 00:04:12,753 --> 00:04:14,620 So, what now? 68 00:04:16,313 --> 00:04:17,560 We pray. 69 00:04:18,349 --> 00:04:20,949 (Pray Tell sniffles) 70 00:04:22,059 --> 00:04:24,003 We pray for strength... 71 00:04:25,535 --> 00:04:27,488 to keep fighting. 72 00:04:29,517 --> 00:04:30,824 Yeah. 73 00:04:35,587 --> 00:04:37,589 (sniffles) 74 00:04:47,712 --> 00:04:49,462 (door opens) 75 00:04:50,532 --> 00:04:51,819 (footfalls approach) 76 00:04:51,914 --> 00:04:54,469 PRAY TELL: The category is... 77 00:04:55,087 --> 00:04:57,040 Live... 78 00:04:57,696 --> 00:04:59,471 Work... 79 00:04:59,860 --> 00:05:03,126 Pose! 80 00:05:06,426 --> 00:05:08,921 [♪♪] *POSE* Season 02 Episode 01 81 00:05:10,203 --> 00:05:12,319 *POSE* Episode Title :"Acting Up" 82 00:05:12,436 --> 00:05:14,436 Captioned by Media Access Group at WGBH 83 00:05:14,616 --> 00:05:17,118 Synchronized by srjanapala 84 00:05:30,758 --> 00:05:33,524 (indistinct announcement over P.A.) 85 00:05:37,282 --> 00:05:39,327 - Hi, Blanca. You want to come in? - Hi. Yeah. 86 00:05:39,415 --> 00:05:40,696 Yeah. 87 00:05:41,454 --> 00:05:42,813 (exhales) 88 00:05:42,985 --> 00:05:46,422 This place is like the Taj Mahal compared to St. Vincent's. 89 00:05:46,510 --> 00:05:47,946 You know they had me on a six-week 90 00:05:48,034 --> 00:05:50,950 waiting list just to get a doctor to read my labs. 91 00:05:51,555 --> 00:05:54,312 By the way, thank you for squeezing me in like this. 92 00:05:54,790 --> 00:05:56,743 Anything for family, kid. 93 00:05:56,930 --> 00:05:58,719 So, what does it say? 94 00:05:58,932 --> 00:06:00,551 I tried reading my labs when I picked it up, 95 00:06:00,638 --> 00:06:03,532 but... it all looked like Klingon to me. 96 00:06:03,648 --> 00:06:05,163 Well, your red blood cells are good. 97 00:06:05,251 --> 00:06:07,475 - I'm just checking out your CD4s. - See? 98 00:06:07,563 --> 00:06:09,399 There you go again speaking that Klingon. 99 00:06:09,487 --> 00:06:10,704 English, please? 100 00:06:10,792 --> 00:06:14,702 CD4s, or T-cells, are what we want a lot of. 101 00:06:14,790 --> 00:06:17,766 So... how many I gots? 102 00:06:17,854 --> 00:06:19,110 'Cause I know I got a lot. 103 00:06:19,198 --> 00:06:20,258 I stopped drinking, 104 00:06:20,346 --> 00:06:22,072 I take my Flintstone vitamins every day. 105 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:24,742 Well, sometimes being healthy isn't enough for this virus. 106 00:06:24,829 --> 00:06:27,274 Your T-cells have fallen bellow 200. 107 00:06:27,404 --> 00:06:28,962 What's... So? What's that mean? 108 00:06:29,050 --> 00:06:31,469 It means we have to start monitoring you once a month 109 00:06:31,557 --> 00:06:32,876 instead of every three months. 110 00:06:32,964 --> 00:06:35,649 And we have to move your diagnosis of being HIV-positive 111 00:06:35,737 --> 00:06:37,313 to having AIDS. 112 00:06:39,546 --> 00:06:41,001 What? 113 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:57,102 S... 114 00:06:58,128 --> 00:07:00,001 So I have AIDS now? 115 00:07:01,930 --> 00:07:03,907 Well, it's-it's just a number. 116 00:07:03,995 --> 00:07:06,837 It's a way of flagging how much care a patient needs. 117 00:07:06,925 --> 00:07:08,439 Nah, I've been feeling fine. 118 00:07:08,527 --> 00:07:10,280 I've been feeling amazing, actually. 119 00:07:10,368 --> 00:07:12,587 Last winter, when my kids got sick, 120 00:07:12,675 --> 00:07:14,188 I didn't have a sniffle at all. 121 00:07:14,276 --> 00:07:16,743 I mean, sometimes you can't tell what HIV is doing 122 00:07:16,831 --> 00:07:19,133 - to your immune system. - So I'm dying. 123 00:07:19,221 --> 00:07:20,983 No. You're not dying. 124 00:07:21,071 --> 00:07:23,319 You still have plenty of T-cells to fight with, 125 00:07:23,441 --> 00:07:25,780 but we can't let those numbers drop any lower. 126 00:07:25,868 --> 00:07:27,150 So what do I do? 127 00:07:27,725 --> 00:07:29,272 It ain't no cure for this thing. 128 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:30,728 Not yet. 129 00:07:32,827 --> 00:07:34,678 But there is this. 130 00:07:35,322 --> 00:07:38,803 AZT. It helps slow the progression of the virus 131 00:07:38,891 --> 00:07:41,647 - and it's all we've got. - Ain't that stuff for rich folk? 132 00:07:41,735 --> 00:07:44,038 Well, pharmaceutical companies are in the business 133 00:07:44,126 --> 00:07:46,341 of making a profit, but there are folks 134 00:07:46,429 --> 00:07:48,811 in our community who care about the less fortunate. 135 00:07:48,899 --> 00:07:51,858 And they're the ones who can get us this shit for free. 136 00:07:53,644 --> 00:07:56,241 When the wealthy white queens and their friends know 137 00:07:56,329 --> 00:07:59,772 that the end is coming close, they call us. 138 00:08:02,866 --> 00:08:05,077 It's the same thing every time. 139 00:08:08,595 --> 00:08:10,597 We pay our respects. 140 00:08:11,899 --> 00:08:14,069 We say our goodbyes. 141 00:08:14,616 --> 00:08:17,225 And then we collect the leftover meds. 142 00:08:17,467 --> 00:08:20,233 Their dying wishes are to make sure that the grief 143 00:08:20,321 --> 00:08:22,736 isn't the only thing they're leaving behind. 144 00:08:23,585 --> 00:08:26,303 Some of them just have antibiotics. 145 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:30,634 But the rich ones always have AZT. 146 00:08:31,186 --> 00:08:32,442 BLANCA: Pray Tell told me about 147 00:08:32,530 --> 00:08:34,913 a friend of his who was on these meds. 148 00:08:36,696 --> 00:08:40,092 He said it was as toxic as chemo. 149 00:08:40,565 --> 00:08:43,639 And once he got on 'em, his body completely gave out. 150 00:08:44,342 --> 00:08:46,747 Blanca, I'm gonna be straight with you 151 00:08:46,835 --> 00:08:48,152 because you need to hear this. 152 00:08:48,239 --> 00:08:51,428 You're in denial of what HIV is doing to your body. 153 00:08:51,516 --> 00:08:52,953 If you don't do something about it soon, you're 154 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:54,989 - gonna be dead in six months. - No. 155 00:08:55,103 --> 00:08:57,749 Listen, they're working on new drugs every day. 156 00:08:57,837 --> 00:08:59,600 You just got to stay alive long enough 157 00:08:59,688 --> 00:09:01,506 for something better to come along. 158 00:09:06,452 --> 00:09:07,465 You know... 159 00:09:07,553 --> 00:09:09,278 it's moments like these that make your life 160 00:09:09,366 --> 00:09:11,085 flash right before you. 161 00:09:12,022 --> 00:09:14,420 Crazy thing is, it's... not my life 162 00:09:14,508 --> 00:09:17,014 I'm seeing right now, it's my kids. 163 00:09:18,186 --> 00:09:19,737 It's my kids. 164 00:09:23,327 --> 00:09:24,655 (takes deep breath) 165 00:09:24,743 --> 00:09:27,621 Everything in this life is set up to work against them. 166 00:09:28,528 --> 00:09:29,458 There is still 167 00:09:29,546 --> 00:09:31,975 so much in their lives that I have to fix. 168 00:09:32,104 --> 00:09:34,352 We have a saying around here: 169 00:09:34,603 --> 00:09:36,551 either get busy living, 170 00:09:36,717 --> 00:09:38,452 or you get busy dying. 171 00:09:40,419 --> 00:09:43,069 And you've got a lot to live for. 172 00:09:48,776 --> 00:09:49,827 (Angel chuckles) 173 00:09:49,915 --> 00:09:51,203 - (camera whirring) - LIL PAPI: Darling. 174 00:09:51,290 --> 00:09:52,704 That one's gonna be good. 175 00:09:52,837 --> 00:09:54,752 - (Angel chuckles) - (camera whirring) 176 00:09:54,839 --> 00:09:56,473 LIL PAPI: Yeah. 177 00:09:56,561 --> 00:09:58,226 - Hey, can you do me a favor? - ANGEL: Stop. 178 00:09:58,313 --> 00:10:00,349 LIL PAPI: Just look this way. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 179 00:10:00,436 --> 00:10:02,600 Right there, right there. Give me that smile. 180 00:10:05,452 --> 00:10:07,298 That one's great, actually. 181 00:10:07,663 --> 00:10:09,069 Um... yeah. 182 00:10:09,835 --> 00:10:11,538 ♪ What are you looking at? ♪ 183 00:10:11,888 --> 00:10:12,965 (chuckles) 184 00:10:13,053 --> 00:10:14,204 ("Vogue" by Madonna playing) 185 00:10:14,291 --> 00:10:16,293 (camera whirring) 186 00:10:16,575 --> 00:10:19,217 [♪♪] 187 00:10:29,602 --> 00:10:30,920 ♪ Strike a pose... ♪ 188 00:10:31,008 --> 00:10:33,010 (warmer beeps) 189 00:10:36,458 --> 00:10:37,506 ♪ Vogue, Vogue... ♪ 190 00:10:37,594 --> 00:10:39,009 Oh, shit. (laughs) 191 00:10:39,097 --> 00:10:40,611 Y'all hear that? 192 00:10:40,844 --> 00:10:42,700 (chuckles) 193 00:10:43,178 --> 00:10:44,880 CHANEL: That's the new Madonna single. 194 00:10:44,968 --> 00:10:47,629 It's been on constant repeat on Z100. 195 00:10:47,744 --> 00:10:49,803 (Blanca whoops) - It's gonna be the song of the summer. 196 00:10:49,890 --> 00:10:53,174 The most famous woman in the world signing about us. 197 00:10:53,262 --> 00:10:55,497 - Mm! (chuckles) - Strike a pose. 198 00:10:56,934 --> 00:10:58,497 The category is... 199 00:10:58,911 --> 00:11:00,583 Runway... 200 00:11:00,802 --> 00:11:01,982 Mo-del... 201 00:11:02,070 --> 00:11:04,044 - Effect. - (crowd cheering) 202 00:11:04,132 --> 00:11:05,713 BLANCA: Everything is about to change. 203 00:11:05,801 --> 00:11:07,637 I can see it as clear as day. 204 00:11:07,725 --> 00:11:09,840 Well, your vision must be cloudy 205 00:11:09,928 --> 00:11:12,895 'cause ain't shit about to change for our black asses. 206 00:11:12,983 --> 00:11:15,895 Madonna is shining a bright spotlight on us, girl. 207 00:11:15,983 --> 00:11:17,826 - (scoffs) - We've been underground for how long? 208 00:11:17,913 --> 00:11:20,556 About 20 years. Since Crystal LaBeija lost 209 00:11:20,644 --> 00:11:23,419 one too many titles to white girls. 210 00:11:24,161 --> 00:11:26,833 PRAY TELL: Ha-ha! Yes, baby! 211 00:11:26,936 --> 00:11:28,584 Let us have it. 212 00:11:28,672 --> 00:11:30,809 These walks are turning me on, kids. 213 00:11:30,989 --> 00:11:32,442 Who's next? 214 00:11:33,762 --> 00:11:37,688 - Oh... sookie, sookie, now. - ♪ Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers... ♪ 215 00:11:37,783 --> 00:11:40,122 PRAY TELL: Are you gonna show us your face, baby? 216 00:11:40,684 --> 00:11:42,525 ♪ Rita Hayworth gave good face... ♪ 217 00:11:42,613 --> 00:11:45,161 (crowd cheering) 218 00:11:45,314 --> 00:11:46,829 That's my baby! 219 00:11:46,917 --> 00:11:48,866 ♪ Ladies with an attitude ♪ 220 00:11:48,953 --> 00:11:51,098 ♪ Fellows that were in the mood... ♪ 221 00:11:51,186 --> 00:11:52,601 BLANCA: Mark my words. 222 00:11:52,689 --> 00:11:53,919 "Vogue" will make us stars. 223 00:11:54,132 --> 00:11:56,677 Madonna lives on the edge for what's next. 224 00:11:57,153 --> 00:12:00,684 And what's newer than an entire world, undiscovered, 225 00:12:01,122 --> 00:12:03,419 brimming to the rim with guts, 226 00:12:04,098 --> 00:12:05,669 gorgeousness... 227 00:12:05,890 --> 00:12:07,520 and raw talent? 228 00:12:08,812 --> 00:12:10,434 I mean, look. 229 00:12:12,820 --> 00:12:15,268 CROWD (chanting): Angel! Angel! Angel... 230 00:12:15,427 --> 00:12:17,561 (crowd cheering) 231 00:12:17,966 --> 00:12:19,238 PRAY TELL: Get up, get up. 232 00:12:19,341 --> 00:12:22,833 Oh! Booty! Booty! Booty! Booty! 233 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:24,702 (crowd cheering, chanting) 234 00:12:24,789 --> 00:12:26,437 PRAY TELL: Don't, don't, don't hurt us. 235 00:12:26,524 --> 00:12:28,286 Don't hurt us, baby. 236 00:12:28,381 --> 00:12:30,427 Madonna's gonna want our faces and when she comes 237 00:12:30,515 --> 00:12:33,531 with her spotlight, the Evangelistas are gonna be ready. 238 00:12:33,619 --> 00:12:35,400 - Girl... - PRAY TELL: Judges have spoken. 239 00:12:35,666 --> 00:12:37,700 The cards never lie. 240 00:12:37,788 --> 00:12:39,567 The cards never lie, my darlings. 241 00:12:39,655 --> 00:12:41,872 Grand prize goes to... 242 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:44,684 the most luminous girl in the room... 243 00:12:44,845 --> 00:12:47,817 Miss Angel Evangelista. 244 00:12:47,978 --> 00:12:50,325 CROWD (chanting): Evangelista! 245 00:12:51,482 --> 00:12:53,653 (chanting continues) 246 00:12:53,850 --> 00:12:55,745 - Evange... - Evange... 247 00:12:55,833 --> 00:12:57,968 - lista! - Lista! 248 00:12:58,055 --> 00:12:59,864 - Evange... - Evange... 249 00:12:59,952 --> 00:13:02,739 - lista! - Lista! 250 00:13:02,827 --> 00:13:05,229 ♪ Vogue, Vogue, Vogue, Vogue. ♪ 251 00:13:34,219 --> 00:13:36,167 Hey, baby. 252 00:13:36,786 --> 00:13:38,307 Girl, what are you doing out here? 253 00:13:38,395 --> 00:13:40,471 We talked about this. 254 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:42,680 You said you wasn't gonna walk the piers no more. 255 00:13:42,767 --> 00:13:45,042 - There are more options out there. - Like what? 256 00:13:45,130 --> 00:13:47,250 Mopping floors and waiting tables? No. 257 00:13:47,442 --> 00:13:49,505 No, thanks. I like being my own boss. 258 00:13:49,649 --> 00:13:51,664 BLANCA: Well, I got a plan. 259 00:13:51,892 --> 00:13:53,348 Get in. 260 00:13:57,046 --> 00:13:59,496 Just tell me where we're going. 261 00:14:00,364 --> 00:14:01,748 I was at work and I was flipping through 262 00:14:01,835 --> 00:14:05,395 Elle magazine while I was on my lunch break and... 263 00:14:05,817 --> 00:14:09,338 I saw this advertisement for a modeling contest. 264 00:14:09,426 --> 00:14:11,184 (Angel scoffs) 265 00:14:13,574 --> 00:14:15,184 Do you see her? 266 00:14:16,066 --> 00:14:17,213 Yes. 267 00:14:17,301 --> 00:14:18,854 I'm not the face they're looking for. 268 00:14:18,942 --> 00:14:20,809 - I ain't no model. - Yes, you are. 269 00:14:23,557 --> 00:14:24,622 Look at these. 270 00:14:24,710 --> 00:14:26,598 That's just me and Lil Papi playing around. 271 00:14:26,686 --> 00:14:28,292 BLANCA: Do you see what I see? 272 00:14:28,380 --> 00:14:30,794 These photos prove you got the look. 273 00:14:31,145 --> 00:14:34,498 You've got a light that shines so bright 274 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:36,019 right inside of you, 275 00:14:36,107 --> 00:14:38,371 and... I just wish you could see it. Plus, 276 00:14:38,677 --> 00:14:40,559 we about to go mainstream with this Madonna song. 277 00:14:40,646 --> 00:14:42,361 Mainstream? 278 00:14:43,118 --> 00:14:44,848 Yeah, until they find out who I really am. 279 00:14:44,936 --> 00:14:47,316 Oh, girl. All we need to get is our foot into the door. 280 00:14:47,404 --> 00:14:49,832 This song is our ticket to acceptance. 281 00:14:50,067 --> 00:14:51,515 Once they see that you're in the ball, 282 00:14:51,602 --> 00:14:53,437 they won't even turn you away. 283 00:14:56,265 --> 00:14:58,267 (Blanca chuckles) 284 00:15:11,981 --> 00:15:13,929 ♪ My Lord ♪ 285 00:15:14,016 --> 00:15:15,947 (humming) 286 00:15:16,035 --> 00:15:17,902 Sing, sister Lulu. 287 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:21,980 Girl, who the hell chose those tacky-ass flowers? 288 00:15:22,143 --> 00:15:24,275 All these candles and flaming homos, 289 00:15:24,363 --> 00:15:26,824 surprised God don't burn this bitch to the ground. 290 00:15:26,964 --> 00:15:29,136 (both laugh) 291 00:15:30,002 --> 00:15:32,064 Funerals are bullshit. 292 00:15:32,152 --> 00:15:33,816 (hums): Mm-hmm. 293 00:15:33,903 --> 00:15:37,433 (laughs) I want a head count 294 00:15:37,527 --> 00:15:40,285 of exactly how many people love me before I die. 295 00:15:40,577 --> 00:15:42,165 - Mm. - And I want a chance 296 00:15:42,253 --> 00:15:44,072 to defend myself, in case anyone even try 297 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:45,495 to tarnish my good name. 298 00:15:46,006 --> 00:15:49,722 What's the point of spending all that money on a corpse? 299 00:15:49,819 --> 00:15:52,067 Give me my damn flowers when I can smell them. 300 00:15:52,154 --> 00:15:54,136 And give me a chance to read all these bitches 301 00:15:54,223 --> 00:15:55,671 before I'm put in the motherfucking ground. 302 00:15:55,758 --> 00:15:56,806 (laughs) 303 00:15:56,893 --> 00:15:59,170 Y'all are some hard-hearted hos. 304 00:15:59,576 --> 00:16:01,733 Show some damn respect. 305 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:06,230 (organ music playing quietly) 306 00:16:09,820 --> 00:16:12,972 Well, she's on CP time tonight. 307 00:16:13,222 --> 00:16:14,923 He's not going anywhere. 308 00:16:15,011 --> 00:16:16,517 - (scoffs) - (sighs) 309 00:16:16,605 --> 00:16:20,564 What's your head count? This is my 452nd memorial. 310 00:16:20,652 --> 00:16:22,384 Two hundred and ten. 311 00:16:22,472 --> 00:16:25,322 First one to get to a thousand gets a free toaster. 312 00:16:25,410 --> 00:16:27,197 - (chuckles) Uh... - (giggling nearby) 313 00:16:27,285 --> 00:16:30,048 Look at these unquenchable hos thirsting for dick. 314 00:16:30,136 --> 00:16:32,947 Since when did funerals become the new cruising spot? 315 00:16:33,035 --> 00:16:35,044 Oh, she's found morality. 316 00:16:35,131 --> 00:16:37,012 (laughs) 317 00:16:37,331 --> 00:16:38,902 Come on. 318 00:16:38,990 --> 00:16:41,058 Let's pay our respects. 319 00:16:45,449 --> 00:16:47,394 Interesting choice. 320 00:16:47,503 --> 00:16:49,980 Why is he dressed like a flamenco dancer? 321 00:16:50,068 --> 00:16:53,675 I can get over the outfit, but that makeup is terrible. 322 00:16:54,753 --> 00:16:57,902 Joe always preferred a nude matte lip. 323 00:16:58,105 --> 00:16:59,956 Well, red is a tough color. 324 00:17:00,128 --> 00:17:03,465 Only tramps can pull it off. Shocking you never could. 325 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:06,886 (chuckles, cries) 326 00:17:11,022 --> 00:17:12,704 (sniffles) 327 00:17:13,152 --> 00:17:14,771 Oh... 328 00:17:16,338 --> 00:17:18,238 He was so young. 329 00:17:19,341 --> 00:17:21,738 Just barely started living. 330 00:17:21,979 --> 00:17:24,893 I don't know how much more of this I can take. 331 00:17:25,035 --> 00:17:28,564 - 790, until you get your toaster. - (exhales) 332 00:17:28,651 --> 00:17:31,706 (laughs) 333 00:17:32,588 --> 00:17:36,269 (groans) I need a drink. You coming with me to the diner? 334 00:17:36,357 --> 00:17:40,089 Not tonight. I've got someplace to be and you're coming with me. 335 00:17:40,988 --> 00:17:42,628 PRAY TELL: Where are you taking me? 336 00:17:42,761 --> 00:17:44,074 - I'm hungry. - (crowd chanting) 337 00:17:44,162 --> 00:17:46,448 Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. 338 00:17:46,536 --> 00:17:49,402 My black ass does not need to join your group 339 00:17:49,620 --> 00:17:52,509 of preppy white queens and ill-fitted Gap chinos 340 00:17:52,597 --> 00:17:55,124 who have never had to fight for a goddamn thing in their lives. 341 00:17:55,211 --> 00:17:57,793 - CROWD: Act up! Fight back! - Listen, there are dikes, too, 342 00:17:57,880 --> 00:18:01,331 running these meetings, of all shades. 343 00:18:01,651 --> 00:18:05,234 Pray, you've got to put your pain to good use, 344 00:18:05,519 --> 00:18:08,938 or I swear to God, it will eat you alive. 345 00:18:09,025 --> 00:18:11,240 CROWD (chanting): Fight back! Fight AIDS! 346 00:18:11,597 --> 00:18:14,910 Act up! Fight back! Fight AIDS! 347 00:18:14,997 --> 00:18:18,113 Act up! Fight back! Fight AIDS! 348 00:18:18,316 --> 00:18:21,644 Act up! Fight back! Fight AIDS! 349 00:18:21,853 --> 00:18:24,322 Act up! Fight back! Fight AIDS! 350 00:18:24,410 --> 00:18:26,777 Welcome to your first Act Up meeting. 351 00:18:26,865 --> 00:18:28,780 CROWD (chanting): Fight AIDS! Act up! 352 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:33,902 Ah, well, I was beginning to think Miss Wanda didn't exist. 353 00:18:34,149 --> 00:18:35,664 I'm not the going out type. 354 00:18:35,752 --> 00:18:38,233 I've got other things on my mind. 355 00:18:38,495 --> 00:18:41,937 - I told you she was hot. - (chuckles) 356 00:18:42,024 --> 00:18:44,378 - Act up! Fight back! Fight AIDS! - SYD: All right. 357 00:18:44,594 --> 00:18:46,642 - All right. - (applause, cheering) 358 00:18:46,855 --> 00:18:48,753 Listen up, folks. 359 00:18:49,324 --> 00:18:51,689 Last week's fund-raiser brought in 360 00:18:51,777 --> 00:18:54,584 $650,000. 361 00:18:54,671 --> 00:18:57,097 (cheering) 362 00:18:57,273 --> 00:19:01,572 And... and now that we finally have the cash 363 00:19:01,660 --> 00:19:04,142 to meet our momentum, this Sunday's protest 364 00:19:04,230 --> 00:19:05,775 up at St. Patrick's Cathedral 365 00:19:05,863 --> 00:19:07,930 is an even more crucial step 366 00:19:08,017 --> 00:19:10,600 in starting a global conversation around HIV 367 00:19:10,687 --> 00:19:11,978 and AIDS. 368 00:19:12,253 --> 00:19:15,331 (cheering) 369 00:19:15,799 --> 00:19:18,040 The Catholic Church has spent 370 00:19:18,128 --> 00:19:21,189 millions of dollars putting the false message into the world 371 00:19:21,277 --> 00:19:24,880 that condoms don't work and that abstinence is the only way 372 00:19:24,967 --> 00:19:27,316 - to fight HIV. That is a lie. - (booing) 373 00:19:27,403 --> 00:19:30,653 And that is morally wrong. 374 00:19:30,740 --> 00:19:33,142 So, we're staging a die-in 375 00:19:33,230 --> 00:19:35,157 in the middle of that congregation 376 00:19:35,244 --> 00:19:38,227 as a peaceful protest against the annihilation 377 00:19:38,314 --> 00:19:40,972 - of our community! - Yes! 378 00:19:41,483 --> 00:19:43,886 (cheering) 379 00:19:46,956 --> 00:19:48,646 Cardinal John O'Connor has said, 380 00:19:48,734 --> 00:19:50,999 "Good morality is good medicine." 381 00:19:51,087 --> 00:19:52,869 He might as well say, "Let them get AIDS." 382 00:19:52,957 --> 00:19:55,482 And it's not just the board of education 383 00:19:55,570 --> 00:19:56,593 or the city council 384 00:19:56,681 --> 00:19:58,797 that Cardinal O'Connor is influencing, no. 385 00:19:58,942 --> 00:20:03,078 He has a direct line to the Pope himself. 386 00:20:03,630 --> 00:20:06,554 We will not allow his racist, 387 00:20:06,747 --> 00:20:10,804 sexist, homophobic ideologies to affect the health 388 00:20:10,892 --> 00:20:14,179 of every single person on this planet! 389 00:20:14,594 --> 00:20:16,453 (cheering) 390 00:20:18,283 --> 00:20:20,298 Act up! Fight back! 391 00:20:20,386 --> 00:20:21,868 ALL: Fight AIDS! 392 00:20:22,054 --> 00:20:25,624 Act up! Fight back! Fight AIDS! 393 00:20:25,711 --> 00:20:28,640 Act up! Fight back! Fight AIDS! 394 00:20:28,727 --> 00:20:32,148 Act up! Fight back! Fight AIDS 395 00:20:32,539 --> 00:20:35,507 Act up! Fight back! Fight AIDS 396 00:20:35,726 --> 00:20:38,749 Act up! Fight back! Fight AIDS 397 00:20:38,921 --> 00:20:42,468 Act up! Fight back! Fight AIDS 398 00:20:43,232 --> 00:20:44,968 (laughing) 399 00:20:45,585 --> 00:20:47,890 Damn, all these girls look the same. 400 00:20:47,978 --> 00:20:50,304 - Nothing at all like me. - Girl, stop comparing yourself. 401 00:20:50,392 --> 00:20:52,522 You are an original, a star of ballroom. 402 00:20:53,649 --> 00:20:55,679 I got to ask you something serious. 403 00:20:58,398 --> 00:20:59,679 You think I pass? 404 00:20:59,767 --> 00:21:01,680 Hmm. With the best of them. 405 00:21:02,115 --> 00:21:04,187 None of these girls can hold a candle to you. 406 00:21:04,343 --> 00:21:06,695 Angel, you're the prettiest thing I've ever seen. 407 00:21:07,046 --> 00:21:10,194 You Dominicans got a slick tongue. 408 00:21:10,281 --> 00:21:11,594 - Come on. - (laughs) 409 00:21:11,681 --> 00:21:13,460 We need to sign you in. 410 00:21:15,768 --> 00:21:18,140 (chuckles) This your first time? 411 00:21:18,724 --> 00:21:20,749 - Don't be nervous. - I'm not. 412 00:21:20,852 --> 00:21:23,015 Well, I was in your same spot three years ago, 413 00:21:23,103 --> 00:21:24,586 and I was scared as hell. 414 00:21:24,674 --> 00:21:26,333 I thought my skin and frizzy hair 415 00:21:26,421 --> 00:21:27,680 wouldn't get me past the open call, 416 00:21:27,767 --> 00:21:30,453 but... those things actually made me stand out. 417 00:21:30,593 --> 00:21:33,492 You're gonna be the face of 1990, girl. Watch. 418 00:21:33,580 --> 00:21:35,413 Okay, now hurry up and fill this out. 419 00:21:35,501 --> 00:21:37,227 And don't forget to mention that you can Vogue 420 00:21:37,314 --> 00:21:38,715 - in the special skills section. - Oh, that's right. 421 00:21:38,802 --> 00:21:40,402 Duh. 422 00:21:52,342 --> 00:21:54,295 (quietly): Come on, let's go. 423 00:21:54,538 --> 00:21:56,704 Blanca, you can't leave me here like this. 424 00:21:56,791 --> 00:21:59,609 Girl, if I walk into that room, you know the jig is up. 425 00:22:01,499 --> 00:22:03,952 - You must do this on your own, Angel. - (moans) 426 00:22:04,298 --> 00:22:05,835 You got this, you can do this. 427 00:22:05,923 --> 00:22:07,623 Just be yourself. 428 00:22:09,677 --> 00:22:11,677 Just be yourself. 429 00:22:20,218 --> 00:22:22,734 [♪♪] 430 00:22:48,878 --> 00:22:50,888 (indistinct chatter) 431 00:22:52,881 --> 00:22:54,351 (shutter clicks) 432 00:23:03,311 --> 00:23:05,835 So, what have we here? 433 00:23:07,501 --> 00:23:10,813 Angel. 22. 434 00:23:10,901 --> 00:23:12,804 - Mm-hmm. - The Bronx. 435 00:23:16,147 --> 00:23:18,176 You used an instant camera. 436 00:23:18,288 --> 00:23:20,111 Yes. I did. 437 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:22,351 Hmm. 438 00:23:23,999 --> 00:23:25,593 Impressive. 439 00:23:27,030 --> 00:23:29,723 But if you want to be a professional, 440 00:23:30,515 --> 00:23:33,124 you need a professional to capture you. 441 00:23:33,366 --> 00:23:35,109 That sounds like that costs money. 442 00:23:35,327 --> 00:23:36,804 I don't have a job right now, that's why I'm here 443 00:23:36,891 --> 00:23:38,013 talking to you. 444 00:23:38,101 --> 00:23:39,834 Every model must pay her dues 445 00:23:39,921 --> 00:23:41,796 before she gets paid herself. 446 00:23:42,083 --> 00:23:44,351 It's an investment in your future. 447 00:23:47,140 --> 00:23:49,484 - So, you can Vogue. - Mm-hmm. 448 00:23:49,571 --> 00:23:51,468 - Like the new song? - Mm-hmm. 449 00:23:54,071 --> 00:23:55,616 I like that. 450 00:23:57,746 --> 00:23:58,882 (chuckles) 451 00:24:06,396 --> 00:24:09,591 Here's a photographer I know. 452 00:24:09,679 --> 00:24:11,163 Tell him I sent you. 453 00:24:11,254 --> 00:24:12,819 He'll give you my discount. 454 00:24:16,380 --> 00:24:18,882 Bring the new photographs to me... 455 00:24:20,710 --> 00:24:22,413 for the semi-finals. 456 00:24:40,321 --> 00:24:42,640 I did it. I made it to the next round. 457 00:24:42,728 --> 00:24:44,311 - Ah! - I knew it. I knew it! 458 00:24:44,561 --> 00:24:46,861 (all laughing) 459 00:24:58,241 --> 00:25:00,179 [♪♪] 460 00:25:02,914 --> 00:25:04,952 Did you put oregano in my sauce? 461 00:25:05,069 --> 00:25:07,042 Your sauce? It's Ragú. 462 00:25:07,129 --> 00:25:09,466 This shit came out of a jar, bitch. Relax. 463 00:25:09,554 --> 00:25:10,662 - (laughing) - What's so funny, Cubby? 464 00:25:10,749 --> 00:25:12,810 What's wrong with oregano? I thought it was healthy 465 00:25:12,898 --> 00:25:14,382 to eat more green vegetables. 466 00:25:14,470 --> 00:25:18,528 Oregano is a herb, not a vegetable, darling boy. 467 00:25:18,616 --> 00:25:21,221 Who is educating these children on their nutrition? 468 00:25:21,309 --> 00:25:22,708 And when is your man coming home? 469 00:25:22,796 --> 00:25:26,192 Well, darling sir, the Al B. Sure tour is almost over. 470 00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:28,210 He told me he would be home next week. 471 00:25:28,437 --> 00:25:30,561 I'm so excited, I can't even sleep. (chuckles) 472 00:25:30,649 --> 00:25:33,405 Oh, no. Please don't go planning no romantic reunion dinner 473 00:25:33,493 --> 00:25:35,442 at Roy Rogers or nothing. If he's back in town, 474 00:25:35,530 --> 00:25:37,027 then he's back under my roof, 475 00:25:37,115 --> 00:25:38,851 and Friday family dinner is mandatory. 476 00:25:38,939 --> 00:25:40,411 Yeah, unless you're glued to the MTV 477 00:25:40,499 --> 00:25:41,803 waiting for your favorite song to come on. 478 00:25:41,890 --> 00:25:43,022 Uh-uh. That ain't recreation, girl. 479 00:25:43,109 --> 00:25:46,802 They play that Madonna "Vogue" video once an hour. 480 00:25:46,890 --> 00:25:49,851 I need to study it and I ain't got no VCR. 481 00:25:50,038 --> 00:25:51,601 Listen, y'all are just not getting it. 482 00:25:51,702 --> 00:25:54,513 We are on the cusp of a revolution. 483 00:25:54,601 --> 00:25:57,262 We've been doing those dance moves in that video for years. 484 00:25:57,349 --> 00:26:00,062 That's our culture on MTV. We about to go mainstream. 485 00:26:00,149 --> 00:26:04,208 Yes. Just like when all those suburban kids 486 00:26:04,296 --> 00:26:07,021 started singing "Y.M.C.A." and the leather bars 487 00:26:07,109 --> 00:26:08,832 in The Castro went mainstream. 488 00:26:08,919 --> 00:26:10,272 - (all chuckling) - This is different. 489 00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:12,215 We're talking about Madonna. 490 00:26:12,303 --> 00:26:13,819 Something is happening, I can feel it. 491 00:26:13,907 --> 00:26:15,529 PRAY TELL: Yeah. That's the same shit they said 492 00:26:15,616 --> 00:26:16,957 about disco. 493 00:26:17,233 --> 00:26:19,181 Studio 54 stayed open for three years, 494 00:26:19,269 --> 00:26:21,074 and when the Man shut it down, 495 00:26:21,162 --> 00:26:24,262 all those angry black and homo-hating white boys... 496 00:26:24,350 --> 00:26:27,949 They took their disco records to the baseball stadium 497 00:26:28,037 --> 00:26:29,752 and blew 'em up. 498 00:26:30,327 --> 00:26:31,975 Every generation 499 00:26:32,217 --> 00:26:33,988 thinks that they're gonna be the ones 500 00:26:34,076 --> 00:26:35,848 that are finally invited to the party. 501 00:26:35,936 --> 00:26:38,246 - (both chuckle) - Put your glass slippers away, 502 00:26:38,334 --> 00:26:41,387 Trans-erella. It ain't never gonna happen. (laughs) 503 00:26:41,475 --> 00:26:43,848 Really? Angel, will you 504 00:26:43,936 --> 00:26:46,809 - tell them your news? - ANGEL: Mm-hmm. Blanca made me 505 00:26:46,897 --> 00:26:49,012 audition for the Fresh Faces modeling competition. 506 00:26:49,100 --> 00:26:51,027 And she made the semi-finals, too. What's good? 507 00:26:51,115 --> 00:26:52,653 (cheering) - Why you got to steal my thunder? 508 00:26:52,740 --> 00:26:54,582 DAMON: Our girl's a star. 509 00:26:54,670 --> 00:26:56,371 Don't get all crazy yet. 510 00:26:56,459 --> 00:26:58,949 The modeling woman said I need professional headshots, 511 00:26:59,037 --> 00:27:01,442 - and those "costeses" money. - Mm-hmm. 512 00:27:01,530 --> 00:27:03,301 And you next, Damon. 513 00:27:03,389 --> 00:27:04,989 No more Saturdays sitting around the house, 514 00:27:05,076 --> 00:27:06,395 reading dirty magazines. 515 00:27:06,483 --> 00:27:08,208 From 3:00 until 5:00, you're gonna be teaching 516 00:27:08,295 --> 00:27:10,090 a Voguing class down at the YMCA. 517 00:27:10,178 --> 00:27:12,224 - They don't have a Voguing class. - Well, they do now. 518 00:27:12,311 --> 00:27:14,129 I told them if they put up a sign-up sheet, 519 00:27:14,217 --> 00:27:15,598 more people would come. 520 00:27:15,686 --> 00:27:18,621 They got six people already and the numbers are going to grow. 521 00:27:18,709 --> 00:27:20,801 Y'all need to trust this mother's intuition. 522 00:27:20,889 --> 00:27:22,809 Y'all are whistling past the graveyard. 523 00:27:22,897 --> 00:27:23,574 BLANCA: Really? 524 00:27:23,662 --> 00:27:24,582 'Cause I heard the other emcees 525 00:27:24,669 --> 00:27:26,982 talking about how Sue Simmons from Live at Five 526 00:27:27,069 --> 00:27:29,036 wants to interview you about the scene. 527 00:27:29,124 --> 00:27:32,309 It's not a scene. It's our lives. 528 00:27:32,397 --> 00:27:34,788 Why do you have to be such a downer? 529 00:27:35,538 --> 00:27:36,911 PRAY TELL: We should all be going 530 00:27:36,999 --> 00:27:39,247 to that church for the protest on Sunday. 531 00:27:39,335 --> 00:27:41,061 Together. As a house. 532 00:27:41,149 --> 00:27:43,432 I can't make it on Sunday. I have to meet the photographer. 533 00:27:43,519 --> 00:27:45,108 Reschedule. 534 00:27:45,389 --> 00:27:48,186 We're all being chased by the same monster. 535 00:27:48,318 --> 00:27:50,473 You saying it's wrong for me to get a little something 536 00:27:50,561 --> 00:27:52,379 for myself while I'm running away? 537 00:27:52,467 --> 00:27:55,670 I could die, so I should stop living? 538 00:27:55,827 --> 00:27:56,879 Come on. 539 00:27:56,967 --> 00:27:58,130 BLANCA: But we need to let them know 540 00:27:58,217 --> 00:28:00,262 - that we care about us. - (door opens) 541 00:28:00,350 --> 00:28:02,682 Y'all are going. What's the point of raising the profile 542 00:28:02,769 --> 00:28:04,715 of our community if there's no community left 543 00:28:04,803 --> 00:28:06,331 within a couple of years? 544 00:28:08,522 --> 00:28:09,981 You're late, Elektra. 545 00:28:10,069 --> 00:28:12,684 From the looks of things, not late enough. 546 00:28:12,772 --> 00:28:14,426 Mother Blanca, this house is suffering 547 00:28:14,514 --> 00:28:17,045 from a major deficiency in terms of closet space. 548 00:28:17,155 --> 00:28:20,302 I do not understand how you expect me to just toss my finery 549 00:28:20,389 --> 00:28:22,809 on one of these flea-filled reclamation projects 550 00:28:22,897 --> 00:28:24,366 like a savage. 551 00:28:24,694 --> 00:28:27,372 What kind of tips is you making at, um, 552 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:30,184 - Indochine to buy this mink? - (Lil Papi chuckles) 553 00:28:30,272 --> 00:28:31,913 She mopped this shit from the coat room. 554 00:28:32,001 --> 00:28:34,465 Miss Elektra does not mop. 555 00:28:34,553 --> 00:28:35,840 LEMAR: Or dust 556 00:28:35,928 --> 00:28:37,942 - or cook. - CUBBY: Mm-hmm. 557 00:28:38,030 --> 00:28:39,460 LEMAR: Or wash a dish. 558 00:28:39,548 --> 00:28:42,261 But she has been helping with the rent and expenses 559 00:28:42,349 --> 00:28:44,090 for the past two months, which I can say 560 00:28:44,178 --> 00:28:45,926 more than any of you freeloaders have done. 561 00:28:46,014 --> 00:28:47,882 Thank you, Mother Blanca. 562 00:28:48,132 --> 00:28:50,989 And I do apologize for missing last week's supper. 563 00:28:51,077 --> 00:28:52,882 While I don't always enjoy the company 564 00:28:52,970 --> 00:28:54,513 and the sauce could use some seasoning, 565 00:28:54,601 --> 00:28:57,075 I do think it's good for morale to do things as a family. 566 00:28:57,163 --> 00:28:58,357 BLANCA: Well, good, because 567 00:28:58,445 --> 00:29:00,193 we're all going with Pray 568 00:29:00,281 --> 00:29:03,367 to that big Act Up protest at the church on Sunday. 569 00:29:04,845 --> 00:29:06,249 Count me out. 570 00:29:06,452 --> 00:29:08,075 I'm not posing for a mug shot. 571 00:29:08,163 --> 00:29:10,482 Oh, no, uh-uh. Ain't none of y'all ever given me lip 572 00:29:10,570 --> 00:29:13,411 when I say we're walking a category together at the ball. 573 00:29:13,499 --> 00:29:16,349 Well, this Sunday, the ball is at the church, 574 00:29:16,437 --> 00:29:20,216 and the categories are family and standing up for ourselves 575 00:29:20,304 --> 00:29:23,462 and our community, and all of y'all are going. 576 00:29:23,898 --> 00:29:25,765 - All right. - Okay. 577 00:29:31,601 --> 00:29:34,732 I just booked you an 11:10 and a 12:15. 578 00:29:34,820 --> 00:29:36,036 I'm sorry, Ms. Rose. 579 00:29:36,124 --> 00:29:37,490 You gonna have to give this to someone else. 580 00:29:37,577 --> 00:29:39,255 I'm the owner, I need you to work. 581 00:29:39,343 --> 00:29:40,919 You know I never turn down work, 582 00:29:41,007 --> 00:29:42,671 but my friends are counting on me. 583 00:29:42,936 --> 00:29:44,755 You're ungrateful. I let you work here 584 00:29:44,843 --> 00:29:46,382 because I am a good Christian and... 585 00:29:46,469 --> 00:29:48,406 Please. I have to leave. 586 00:29:48,898 --> 00:29:50,312 So quit. 587 00:29:52,312 --> 00:29:53,879 You know what? 588 00:29:58,296 --> 00:30:00,742 You're right. I quit. 589 00:30:01,272 --> 00:30:03,739 I'm not wasting whatever time I have left on this Earth 590 00:30:03,827 --> 00:30:05,749 to give any part of me to you. 591 00:30:05,837 --> 00:30:08,148 You should kiss my feet for hiring you. 592 00:30:08,281 --> 00:30:10,412 No one else will. You will see. 593 00:30:10,679 --> 00:30:14,046 Ladies like getting their nails done by ladies. 594 00:30:20,187 --> 00:30:23,388 So... then I'll get my own salon, 595 00:30:23,476 --> 00:30:26,262 and make twice the business you make in here. 596 00:30:26,718 --> 00:30:31,013 Oh, and I'll call it Vogue Nails after the Madonna song. 597 00:30:31,101 --> 00:30:34,632 Then when I get back, I'll come buy this dump from you. 598 00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:36,720 (organ playing, choir singing) 599 00:30:46,335 --> 00:30:49,254 Mm... This look like a lot of money. 600 00:30:49,342 --> 00:30:51,544 Mm-hmm. And you know they ain't paying taxes 601 00:30:51,632 --> 00:30:53,222 on any of this shit. 602 00:30:53,467 --> 00:30:55,708 I bet you those vestments cost more than Chanel's 603 00:30:55,796 --> 00:30:57,945 - entire spring 1990 collection. - Hmm. 604 00:30:58,033 --> 00:31:00,462 O'CONNOR: earlier and all the others, 605 00:31:00,549 --> 00:31:02,382 and I warn them now while absent, 606 00:31:02,470 --> 00:31:03,638 as I did when present 607 00:31:03,726 --> 00:31:05,232 on my second visit, 608 00:31:05,319 --> 00:31:09,343 that if I come again, I will not be lenient, 609 00:31:10,015 --> 00:31:12,068 since you are looking for proof of Christ 610 00:31:12,156 --> 00:31:13,742 speaking in me. 611 00:31:14,085 --> 00:31:16,968 Finally, brothers, rejoice. 612 00:31:17,101 --> 00:31:20,060 Mend your ways, encourage one another. 613 00:31:20,148 --> 00:31:21,505 Agree with one another. 614 00:31:21,593 --> 00:31:24,482 Live in peace, and the God of love 615 00:31:24,569 --> 00:31:26,880 and peace will be with you. 616 00:31:26,968 --> 00:31:29,466 Greet one another with a holy kiss... 617 00:31:29,554 --> 00:31:32,351 - All the holy ones greet you. - (whispers): Pass it down. 618 00:31:32,523 --> 00:31:36,575 May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God 619 00:31:36,663 --> 00:31:40,656 and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. 620 00:31:40,773 --> 00:31:43,142 CONGREGATION: And also with you. 621 00:31:43,617 --> 00:31:46,072 O'CONNOR: The gospel of the Lord. 622 00:31:46,159 --> 00:31:48,512 CONGREGATION: Praise be to Jesus Christ. 623 00:31:48,882 --> 00:31:52,099 O'CONNOR: Today's reading really reminded me of my father. 624 00:31:52,187 --> 00:31:54,140 Paul's letter to the Corinthians. 625 00:31:54,274 --> 00:31:58,027 It's written with love. But it's... (coughs) 626 00:31:58,216 --> 00:31:59,676 (congregation muttering) 627 00:32:18,951 --> 00:32:23,178 Could everyone here please stand and pray? 628 00:32:24,553 --> 00:32:26,842 Prayer won't cure AIDS. 629 00:32:27,006 --> 00:32:29,309 Prayer won't stop the spread of HIV. 630 00:32:29,397 --> 00:32:30,895 Only condoms will. 631 00:32:30,983 --> 00:32:33,098 Abstinence is not a human solution, 632 00:32:33,186 --> 00:32:35,910 abstinence is the erasure of our sexuality. 633 00:32:35,998 --> 00:32:39,892 Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name... 634 00:32:39,979 --> 00:32:42,292 Stop killing us! Stop killing us! 635 00:32:42,379 --> 00:32:43,662 Stop killing us! 636 00:32:43,749 --> 00:32:44,862 (chanting): Stop killing us! 637 00:32:44,949 --> 00:32:46,562 Stop killing us! 638 00:32:46,649 --> 00:32:49,902 Stop killing us! Stop killing us! 639 00:32:49,989 --> 00:32:53,172 Stop killing us! Stop killing us! 640 00:32:53,259 --> 00:32:56,342 Stop killing us! Stop killing us! 641 00:32:56,429 --> 00:32:57,712 Stop killing us! 642 00:32:57,799 --> 00:32:58,882 - (chanting continues) - (door opens) 643 00:32:58,969 --> 00:33:00,982 (whistle blowing) 644 00:33:01,069 --> 00:33:04,652 (indistinct shouting) 645 00:33:04,739 --> 00:33:06,739 - (applause) - (cheering) 646 00:33:08,679 --> 00:33:10,562 - Get 'em out of here! - Get out of here! 647 00:33:10,649 --> 00:33:12,222 Stop killing us! Stop killing us! 648 00:33:12,309 --> 00:33:15,092 Arrest the cardinal! He's the criminal! 649 00:33:15,179 --> 00:33:17,678 Stop killing us! Stop killing us! 650 00:33:17,989 --> 00:33:23,202 Stop killing us! Stop killing us! Stop killing us! 651 00:33:23,289 --> 00:33:25,029 Shame on you. 652 00:33:26,540 --> 00:33:29,463 Stop killing us! Stop killing us! 653 00:33:29,699 --> 00:33:31,512 (shouting) 654 00:33:31,599 --> 00:33:33,852 Stop killing us! 655 00:33:33,939 --> 00:33:36,552 (cheering, applause) 656 00:33:36,639 --> 00:33:39,009 (chanting continues) 657 00:33:40,537 --> 00:33:43,007 Stop killing us! 658 00:33:46,069 --> 00:33:48,692 - I love this hairstyle so much. - ANDRE: Give me the room. 659 00:33:50,944 --> 00:33:52,733 How many looks are we shooting? 660 00:33:54,030 --> 00:33:55,780 I was thinking just one. 661 00:33:56,717 --> 00:33:59,561 - I can't afford a full-on shoot. - That's not how it works. 662 00:33:59,764 --> 00:34:01,631 We have a whole team booked for today. 663 00:34:02,052 --> 00:34:04,041 Well, maybe we could work something out. 664 00:34:04,889 --> 00:34:07,616 Like, layaway? 665 00:34:07,748 --> 00:34:10,436 - Don't you have a job? - Not at this moment. 666 00:34:10,545 --> 00:34:13,339 You know, I've seen you at the piers. 667 00:34:16,530 --> 00:34:19,092 You must have mistaken me for someone else. 668 00:34:19,428 --> 00:34:22,756 - I have one of those faces. - No, you don't. 669 00:34:24,131 --> 00:34:26,272 A face like yours I'd never forget. 670 00:34:29,465 --> 00:34:31,052 Well, I don't do that anymore. 671 00:34:31,178 --> 00:34:34,412 - You still gonna shoot me? - I'm the only person who can. 672 00:34:34,959 --> 00:34:36,972 You're a very special beauty. 673 00:34:37,381 --> 00:34:39,702 Very specific. 674 00:34:45,084 --> 00:34:48,279 Mm. Ain't nothing free. 675 00:34:51,592 --> 00:34:53,473 What you want me to do in return? 676 00:34:53,561 --> 00:34:54,862 A private sitting. 677 00:34:55,108 --> 00:34:57,462 Some shots for my personal collection. 678 00:34:58,099 --> 00:34:59,352 I'll do it as a trade. 679 00:35:00,022 --> 00:35:01,670 Won't cost you a dime. 680 00:35:04,248 --> 00:35:06,659 Three, two, one. 681 00:35:06,747 --> 00:35:07,941 Beautiful. 682 00:35:08,029 --> 00:35:09,759 [♪♪] 683 00:35:13,674 --> 00:35:15,257 Good, good, good, good. 684 00:35:15,633 --> 00:35:18,545 Keep going. Hands up, hands up. 685 00:35:21,282 --> 00:35:22,959 You are beautiful. 686 00:35:23,163 --> 00:35:25,317 ♪ Walking like a man, hitting like a hammer ♪ 687 00:35:25,405 --> 00:35:28,075 ♪ She's a juvenile scam, never was a quitter ♪ 688 00:35:28,170 --> 00:35:31,162 ♪ Tasty like a raindrop, she's got the look ♪ 689 00:35:32,985 --> 00:35:34,984 ♪ Heavenly bound, 'cause heaven's got a number ♪ - Chin down. 690 00:35:35,071 --> 00:35:38,207 ♪ When she's spinning me around, kissing is a color ♪ 691 00:35:38,348 --> 00:35:41,864 ♪ Her loving is a wild dog, she's got the look ♪ 692 00:35:42,342 --> 00:35:45,109 - ♪ She's got the look ♪ - ♪ She's got the look ♪ 693 00:35:45,197 --> 00:35:47,373 - ♪ She's got the look ♪ - ♪ She's got the look ♪ 694 00:35:47,461 --> 00:35:50,492 ♪ What in the world can make a brown-eyed girl turn blue? ♪ 695 00:35:50,820 --> 00:35:52,146 Yes. 696 00:35:52,234 --> 00:35:54,732 ♪ When everything I'll ever do ♪ 697 00:35:54,850 --> 00:35:57,161 - ♪ I'll do for you ♪ - Beautiful. 698 00:35:57,264 --> 00:36:00,397 ♪ And I go la, la, la, la, la ♪ 699 00:36:00,531 --> 00:36:02,115 ♪ She's got the look... ♪ 700 00:36:02,295 --> 00:36:03,514 Yes, towards me. 701 00:36:03,602 --> 00:36:05,739 Towards me, move them. Yes. Three, two, one. 702 00:36:05,827 --> 00:36:07,106 Yes, beautiful, beautiful. 703 00:36:07,194 --> 00:36:09,036 One more, just like that. Just like that. 704 00:36:09,124 --> 00:36:11,066 Three, two, one. Yes, yes. 705 00:36:11,154 --> 00:36:12,952 Perfect, perfect... 706 00:36:14,771 --> 00:36:16,511 What do you want? 707 00:36:17,303 --> 00:36:18,845 Take that off. 708 00:36:28,024 --> 00:36:30,024 (exhales) 709 00:36:50,211 --> 00:36:52,211 (camera shutter clicks) 710 00:36:55,266 --> 00:36:56,739 And that. 711 00:36:59,539 --> 00:37:01,203 N-No. 712 00:37:01,437 --> 00:37:02,797 Yeah. 713 00:37:17,131 --> 00:37:18,492 Touch it. 714 00:37:22,972 --> 00:37:25,885 (cheering, applause) 715 00:37:27,742 --> 00:37:30,773 The category is Runway. 716 00:37:31,319 --> 00:37:34,828 Bring it like a French Revolution. 717 00:37:35,070 --> 00:37:39,014 Poverty and abundance personified, 718 00:37:39,102 --> 00:37:41,219 and a goddamn category I like. 719 00:37:41,336 --> 00:37:44,570 We have much to fight back against, children. 720 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:49,672 And what have we here? 721 00:37:49,937 --> 00:37:52,672 Miss Candy and Miss Lulu 722 00:37:52,883 --> 00:37:54,612 serving up Les Misérables 723 00:37:54,750 --> 00:37:58,612 peasant slut realness. 724 00:37:58,844 --> 00:38:01,256 You got some ghetto proppage. 725 00:38:01,344 --> 00:38:05,289 Piece of French baguette and a pitchfork? 726 00:38:05,437 --> 00:38:07,224 What is this, Hee Haw? 727 00:38:07,312 --> 00:38:10,787 You got enough to feed the multitudes, baby, 728 00:38:10,875 --> 00:38:14,836 with your five fish and three loaves of bread. (laughs) 729 00:38:15,039 --> 00:38:17,256 We got a horse mouth up there, though. Here. 730 00:38:17,344 --> 00:38:20,305 (laughter, booing) 731 00:38:20,641 --> 00:38:22,209 Judges, your scores. 732 00:38:22,297 --> 00:38:23,542 Seven, seven, 733 00:38:23,711 --> 00:38:25,902 - six, eight, seven. - (gasps, laughs) 734 00:38:26,016 --> 00:38:27,523 House of Ferocity... 735 00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:29,212 ♪ Ain't so ferocious ♪ 736 00:38:29,299 --> 00:38:31,906 ♪ Ain't so ferocious. ♪ 737 00:38:32,100 --> 00:38:34,382 See you later, my darlings. 738 00:38:34,470 --> 00:38:35,711 Always. 739 00:38:35,828 --> 00:38:38,320 I mean, you think she would learn by now, right? 740 00:38:38,523 --> 00:38:39,722 Who's next? 741 00:38:39,875 --> 00:38:41,522 Who's gonna be next up in here? 742 00:38:41,609 --> 00:38:44,492 (cheering, screaming) 743 00:38:44,579 --> 00:38:46,781 (fanfare playing) 744 00:38:48,606 --> 00:38:51,648 Yes, okay. Uh-huh. 745 00:38:51,895 --> 00:38:54,569 Here comes Miss Elektra... 746 00:38:54,907 --> 00:38:57,508 serving us Marie Antoinette. 747 00:38:57,609 --> 00:38:59,016 How apropos, 748 00:38:59,104 --> 00:39:02,320 a queen who cares nothing for her kingdom. 749 00:39:03,258 --> 00:39:04,568 Oh... 750 00:39:04,656 --> 00:39:07,851 Yes, and the children are serving us narrative. 751 00:39:08,266 --> 00:39:10,782 It's early morning in Versailles, 752 00:39:10,969 --> 00:39:13,935 and Queen Marie is being serviced 753 00:39:14,023 --> 00:39:16,452 by her dutiful young men. 754 00:39:16,609 --> 00:39:19,522 Let them eat cake. 755 00:39:19,812 --> 00:39:22,062 Ah, the carousel twirls, 756 00:39:22,258 --> 00:39:24,602 the carousel twirls. 757 00:39:24,689 --> 00:39:28,258 Remember when things were simpler, Elektra? 758 00:39:28,391 --> 00:39:30,678 Before our young men were dropping dead 759 00:39:30,766 --> 00:39:33,352 before our very eyes. 760 00:39:35,578 --> 00:39:39,118 And they're still going. There's even more story. 761 00:39:42,164 --> 00:39:45,080 Y'all created a guillotine for this mess? 762 00:39:45,169 --> 00:39:46,687 (crowd screaming) 763 00:39:46,850 --> 00:39:48,555 For real? 764 00:39:56,649 --> 00:39:58,766 Mm. 765 00:39:59,081 --> 00:40:01,558 (cheering, applause) 766 00:40:04,251 --> 00:40:07,160 Bravo, bravo. 767 00:40:09,215 --> 00:40:12,840 I must admit, that was very well done. 768 00:40:13,496 --> 00:40:15,012 So tell me something. 769 00:40:15,207 --> 00:40:17,166 How long did you rehearse that? 770 00:40:17,254 --> 00:40:18,761 Is that where you were 771 00:40:18,879 --> 00:40:21,352 instead of showing up for your dying community? 772 00:40:21,439 --> 00:40:23,183 (gasping, shouting) 773 00:40:23,340 --> 00:40:26,152 Way to set an example for the kids, Elektra. 774 00:40:26,246 --> 00:40:28,931 What's your problem, Pray Tell? 775 00:40:29,019 --> 00:40:31,931 Get off your soapbox and ask the judges for their scores. 776 00:40:32,019 --> 00:40:34,332 Oh, I don't need to ask the judges for scores. 777 00:40:34,495 --> 00:40:36,299 I know what they are, and everybody in this room 778 00:40:36,386 --> 00:40:38,042 knows what they are. 779 00:40:38,519 --> 00:40:42,238 Miss Elektra Abundance Evangelista, 780 00:40:42,355 --> 00:40:43,877 grand prize, 781 00:40:43,965 --> 00:40:46,682 this week and last week 782 00:40:46,918 --> 00:40:48,650 and the week before that 783 00:40:48,738 --> 00:40:50,759 and the week before that and the week 784 00:40:50,847 --> 00:40:53,027 before that, granny! 785 00:40:53,822 --> 00:40:55,452 Here, here. 786 00:41:00,078 --> 00:41:03,461 - Take your trophy. - (gasping) 787 00:41:03,730 --> 00:41:06,197 Bitch, you better get me a new trophy 788 00:41:06,285 --> 00:41:09,232 and then come down here so I can shove it up your ass. 789 00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:12,760 (oohing) 790 00:41:15,168 --> 00:41:16,676 I'm gonna lay it out for you. 791 00:41:18,386 --> 00:41:19,871 One time 792 00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:23,236 your community needed you 793 00:41:23,324 --> 00:41:25,056 at that protest, 794 00:41:25,144 --> 00:41:26,652 and you didn't show up. 795 00:41:26,739 --> 00:41:29,579 - (indistinct chatter) - ATTENDEE: That's right. 796 00:41:34,246 --> 00:41:35,931 - I was working. - PRAY TELL: Yeah. 797 00:41:36,019 --> 00:41:37,947 - You work the night shift. - (crowd oohing) 798 00:41:38,035 --> 00:41:41,213 The protest was in the morning. Don't give me that bullshit. 799 00:41:41,301 --> 00:41:42,715 So, what did I miss? 800 00:41:42,847 --> 00:41:45,439 A bunch of fags holding hands, screaming into the wind? 801 00:41:45,527 --> 00:41:47,044 ATTENDEE 2: Shame! 802 00:41:52,073 --> 00:41:53,668 I went to jail. 803 00:41:55,293 --> 00:41:57,922 111 people 804 00:41:58,715 --> 00:42:00,051 went to jail. 805 00:42:00,237 --> 00:42:03,144 You are more concerned about winning a trophy 806 00:42:03,232 --> 00:42:05,658 than you are about our government 807 00:42:05,746 --> 00:42:09,574 spreading lies about us in an effort to kill us! 808 00:42:09,668 --> 00:42:11,752 And you want to know why they want us dead? 809 00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:15,132 Because we're black and we're brown and we're queer. 810 00:42:15,219 --> 00:42:17,220 They don't give a shit about us, 811 00:42:17,308 --> 00:42:20,442 so we better start caring about ourselves. 812 00:42:20,529 --> 00:42:24,441 Show up for your lives! Wake up! 813 00:42:35,472 --> 00:42:38,103 Jack, where are you? Come on up here 814 00:42:38,191 --> 00:42:39,487 and call out the rest of these categories 815 00:42:39,574 --> 00:42:41,238 before the back of my head blows off. 816 00:42:41,332 --> 00:42:42,962 - (crowd oohing) - I got to go home. 817 00:42:43,049 --> 00:42:46,302 (cheering, applause) 818 00:42:47,035 --> 00:42:48,572 Wake the fuck up. 819 00:42:48,659 --> 00:42:50,386 ATTENDEE 3: That's right. 820 00:43:01,114 --> 00:43:03,869 ♪ Back to life, back to reality... ♪ 821 00:43:03,957 --> 00:43:05,527 MIZRAHI: The category is... 822 00:43:05,621 --> 00:43:08,714 (rolling R): Runway. 823 00:43:08,839 --> 00:43:13,199 Bring it like the booked black beauties in Vogue. 824 00:43:13,324 --> 00:43:17,291 You ain't never gonna hit no real runway, we all know that. 825 00:43:17,379 --> 00:43:21,254 But you can serve a look so flawless 826 00:43:21,457 --> 00:43:25,142 that you fool us like little Miss Grace Jones-ish 827 00:43:25,230 --> 00:43:27,590 is doing right here, baby. 828 00:43:27,871 --> 00:43:31,486 She's over here serving you trash bag realness, darlings. 829 00:43:31,574 --> 00:43:33,142 Sponsored by Glad. 830 00:43:33,230 --> 00:43:35,416 Hefty, hefty, hefty. 831 00:43:35,504 --> 00:43:37,369 Wimpy, wimpy, wimpy. 832 00:43:37,457 --> 00:43:40,535 She came to take all the garbage out tonight. 833 00:43:40,623 --> 00:43:43,296 Now who do we have here? 834 00:43:43,384 --> 00:43:45,926 (cheering, applause) 835 00:43:46,034 --> 00:43:49,879 Yes, Miss Pat Cleveland, I see. 836 00:43:50,244 --> 00:43:52,408 Oh, she's twirling and a-trotting 837 00:43:52,496 --> 00:43:53,658 like no other for you. 838 00:43:53,746 --> 00:43:55,916 Goddess! Athena! 839 00:43:56,004 --> 00:43:58,801 Aphrodite! Minerva! 840 00:43:58,934 --> 00:44:00,687 Okay, anybody else walking? 841 00:44:00,774 --> 00:44:02,408 I see commotion back there. 842 00:44:02,496 --> 00:44:04,160 Okay, I see it. 843 00:44:04,249 --> 00:44:06,262 (cheering) 844 00:44:06,514 --> 00:44:08,827 Remember when I said ethereal? 845 00:44:08,914 --> 00:44:10,597 Otherworldly? 846 00:44:10,691 --> 00:44:15,535 Miss Angel, you are giving just that, baby. 847 00:44:17,935 --> 00:44:20,266 Her homage to It girl Veronica Webb. 848 00:44:20,354 --> 00:44:22,926 Oh, please, she is truly unmatched. 849 00:44:23,014 --> 00:44:25,767 This is how you do it. 850 00:44:26,208 --> 00:44:29,821 That is a model. That is a cover girl. 851 00:44:30,308 --> 00:44:32,041 Now, judges, 852 00:44:32,129 --> 00:44:34,857 our girls are serving a fantasy, 853 00:44:34,944 --> 00:44:38,027 one that requires you to suspend disbelief 854 00:44:38,114 --> 00:44:40,727 and imagine them on the real runway, 855 00:44:40,814 --> 00:44:42,257 in actual print. 856 00:44:42,402 --> 00:44:45,197 Would they stack up on the newsstands? 857 00:44:45,918 --> 00:44:47,697 Scores for Miss Grace Jones 858 00:44:47,871 --> 00:44:50,416 and her glistening cocoa skin? 859 00:44:50,504 --> 00:44:53,916 Ten, ten, nine, nine, ten. 860 00:44:54,004 --> 00:44:56,650 Well done. And Miss Pat Cleveland 861 00:44:56,738 --> 00:44:59,077 and her flight of fancy? Ten, 862 00:44:59,164 --> 00:45:01,931 nine, nine, ten, 863 00:45:02,019 --> 00:45:03,988 ten. And what about 864 00:45:04,076 --> 00:45:06,959 Miss Angel Evangelista? 865 00:45:07,272 --> 00:45:08,485 (cheering) 866 00:45:08,673 --> 00:45:11,636 ♪ Tens across the board. ♪ 867 00:45:11,724 --> 00:45:13,167 Come and collect, girl! 868 00:45:13,358 --> 00:45:15,269 This is what I am talking about. 869 00:45:15,357 --> 00:45:18,726 On the way to legendary, a feared name in ballroom. 870 00:45:18,814 --> 00:45:23,306 Structure, beautiful, poised, attitude. 871 00:45:23,394 --> 00:45:25,947 She has the makings of a star girl, 872 00:45:26,035 --> 00:45:27,237 a cover girl! 873 00:45:27,324 --> 00:45:29,194 (cheering) 874 00:45:40,407 --> 00:45:43,176 (crying) 875 00:45:55,597 --> 00:45:57,316 What's going on, mama? 876 00:45:57,933 --> 00:45:59,629 You're supposed to be celebrating. 877 00:45:59,726 --> 00:46:01,140 You the queen of that model category. 878 00:46:01,227 --> 00:46:03,227 Yeah, in there. 879 00:46:05,268 --> 00:46:09,035 I want a victory outside of the ballroom, Papi. 880 00:46:10,354 --> 00:46:13,886 (crying): I'm never gonna be a real model. 881 00:46:14,199 --> 00:46:15,770 That may be true for them girls in there, 882 00:46:15,857 --> 00:46:18,897 but that is not your destiny, Angel. 883 00:46:21,613 --> 00:46:23,856 I got to tell y'all something. 884 00:46:24,066 --> 00:46:25,566 What's up? 885 00:46:30,761 --> 00:46:32,330 Please, y-you have to promise 886 00:46:32,418 --> 00:46:34,152 you're not gonna be disappointed. 887 00:46:34,244 --> 00:46:35,414 Never. 888 00:46:41,404 --> 00:46:43,604 That photographer clocked me. 889 00:46:46,738 --> 00:46:49,404 He recognized me from the piers. 890 00:46:51,644 --> 00:46:53,366 And, look, I didn't have enough money 891 00:46:53,454 --> 00:46:55,355 to pay for the photo shoot. 892 00:46:57,909 --> 00:46:59,948 So he... 893 00:47:00,355 --> 00:47:03,597 - so he took dirty pictures of me. - What? 894 00:47:03,949 --> 00:47:06,937 He took pictures of everything, Papi. 895 00:47:07,024 --> 00:47:09,074 He saw everything. 896 00:47:09,162 --> 00:47:13,418 What if he sells them to some-some porno magazine? 897 00:47:13,527 --> 00:47:15,417 And then I'm branded as a dirty 898 00:47:15,504 --> 00:47:18,517 transsexual hooker for the rest of my life. 899 00:47:19,254 --> 00:47:21,722 - Mama, the whole world will know. - Nah. Nah. 900 00:47:21,810 --> 00:47:24,275 - The whole world. - Nah, this is not happening 901 00:47:24,363 --> 00:47:26,187 on my watch. Do you hear me? 902 00:47:26,274 --> 00:47:29,158 With what I got planned? With what you deserve in this world? 903 00:47:29,246 --> 00:47:31,801 Hell no. Hell no. 904 00:47:31,931 --> 00:47:34,936 We getting what's yours. What's his address? 905 00:47:35,024 --> 00:47:38,369 Where the fucking pictures at, huh?! 906 00:47:38,457 --> 00:47:40,777 Give Angel her fucking pictures. 907 00:47:40,865 --> 00:47:43,508 I want my photos! Where are they? 908 00:47:44,551 --> 00:47:47,077 - They're over there. - Be more specific. Point! 909 00:47:47,164 --> 00:47:48,918 On the corner of the desk. 910 00:47:55,433 --> 00:47:57,656 Angel, baby, you are stunning. 911 00:47:58,348 --> 00:48:01,848 - Really? - Yeah. Where the negatives? 912 00:48:02,035 --> 00:48:04,761 They're locked in the bottom cabinet. The key is on the desk. 913 00:48:10,084 --> 00:48:12,996 - ANGEL: Come on, come on... - Y'all good over there? 914 00:48:16,273 --> 00:48:18,283 These all of them? 915 00:48:27,018 --> 00:48:30,286 If you ever try exploiting my daughter again, 916 00:48:30,504 --> 00:48:32,908 I'm not coming with my son's fists the next time. 917 00:48:32,996 --> 00:48:36,230 Yeah, you hear that, you punk-ass bitch? 918 00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:53,734 You don't know what it took for me to get here, Ms. Ford. 919 00:49:00,261 --> 00:49:01,974 I want a shot. 920 00:49:06,314 --> 00:49:10,386 A real... shot. 921 00:49:22,731 --> 00:49:24,136 Hmm. 922 00:49:30,434 --> 00:49:33,738 Absolutely beautiful. 923 00:50:04,160 --> 00:50:06,170 (scrubbing continuing) 924 00:50:16,518 --> 00:50:20,660 - Ain't no dirt on that floor. - (laughs) 925 00:50:21,536 --> 00:50:22,912 You need a new job, Mother. 926 00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:24,944 You don't do well with too much time on your hands. 927 00:50:25,031 --> 00:50:25,988 In a few days, you'll have scrubbed 928 00:50:26,076 --> 00:50:27,098 the paint off all the walls 929 00:50:27,185 --> 00:50:30,097 and forced Lil Papi to run for mayor or some shit. 930 00:50:31,738 --> 00:50:32,840 (sighs) 931 00:50:32,935 --> 00:50:34,551 Maybe I'm going a little crazy. 932 00:50:34,639 --> 00:50:36,590 Quitting a good job and thinking I could create 933 00:50:36,678 --> 00:50:39,401 some kind of immortality to... 934 00:50:39,509 --> 00:50:44,074 (sighs) see through my house and my... my children. 935 00:50:46,989 --> 00:50:49,023 Maybe it's better to dream small 936 00:50:49,111 --> 00:50:50,949 or not dream at all. 937 00:50:52,027 --> 00:50:53,144 At least then 938 00:50:53,232 --> 00:50:55,815 you can die with some dignity still intact. 939 00:50:56,142 --> 00:50:57,496 (chuckles) 940 00:51:00,127 --> 00:51:02,080 I'm sorry, I'm... 941 00:51:02,565 --> 00:51:04,058 (sighs) 942 00:51:06,246 --> 00:51:09,399 My T cell count is low, and I'm feeling morbid. 943 00:51:11,136 --> 00:51:12,480 How low? 944 00:51:15,435 --> 00:51:18,652 Well, not low enough to stop scrubbing these damn floors. 945 00:51:37,446 --> 00:51:38,957 Mama. 946 00:51:53,574 --> 00:51:55,465 (sighs) 947 00:52:05,692 --> 00:52:07,933 - I made top ten. - What? 948 00:52:08,254 --> 00:52:09,871 Angel... 949 00:52:10,574 --> 00:52:12,344 Angel, are you serious? 950 00:52:13,245 --> 00:52:14,328 Yes. 951 00:52:14,416 --> 00:52:16,832 (laughing): What? 952 00:52:17,323 --> 00:52:18,823 Oh, my... 953 00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:24,894 Well, Miss Angel, you better get ready for the ride of your life. 954 00:52:24,982 --> 00:52:26,725 (chuckles) 955 00:52:26,907 --> 00:52:28,207 I'm ready. 956 00:52:28,295 --> 00:52:32,418 Hear, hear! To Miss Angel Evangelista 957 00:52:32,506 --> 00:52:35,347 purring down every catwalk. 958 00:52:35,435 --> 00:52:36,418 (mouths) 959 00:52:36,506 --> 00:52:38,994 From New York to Paris 960 00:52:39,082 --> 00:52:41,197 to Milan. 961 00:52:42,340 --> 00:52:43,871 - Meow. - To Angel. 962 00:52:43,982 --> 00:52:45,912 ALL: To Angel! 963 00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:48,113 And, and... 964 00:52:48,530 --> 00:52:51,613 - to Miss Blanca Evangelista... - Me? 965 00:52:51,701 --> 00:52:53,738 The mother who made it all happen. 966 00:52:54,369 --> 00:52:57,715 She seems to see the future 967 00:52:58,528 --> 00:53:01,451 better than any fortune teller that I've ever been to. 968 00:53:01,539 --> 00:53:02,879 - Come on, Mother. - (chuckles) 969 00:53:02,967 --> 00:53:04,040 ANGEL: You know it. 970 00:53:04,128 --> 00:53:05,481 How-some-ever... 971 00:53:05,569 --> 00:53:06,965 (overlapping chatter) 972 00:53:07,053 --> 00:53:10,504 I still ain't gonna let Sue Simmons up into my balls 973 00:53:10,592 --> 00:53:13,690 to ruin all of our lives with her tabloid news stories. 974 00:53:13,778 --> 00:53:15,401 - Oh, boy. - Okay? 975 00:53:15,793 --> 00:53:18,474 - LIL PAPI: He said that's it. - To Mother Blanca Evangelista! 976 00:53:18,561 --> 00:53:21,465 - ALL: To Blanca! - Mother Blanca! 977 00:53:22,270 --> 00:53:25,824 All right, well, listen, I love you, too, Pray, 978 00:53:26,016 --> 00:53:28,199 but I'm not giving up on letting them reporters in 979 00:53:28,287 --> 00:53:31,613 to seeing how amazing and magical our community is. 980 00:53:31,701 --> 00:53:34,761 And you know that I am as stubborn as an old drag queen 981 00:53:34,849 --> 00:53:37,795 with a 5:00 shadow at 3:00 in the "morn-ting." 982 00:53:37,883 --> 00:53:38,896 (laughter) 983 00:53:38,984 --> 00:53:40,616 - Okay? - Okay, fine. 984 00:53:40,704 --> 00:53:43,006 So good luck with that, bitch. 985 00:53:43,715 --> 00:53:46,268 Look at what the cat dragged in. 986 00:53:46,402 --> 00:53:49,647 Somebody please hospitalize me so I can have a decent meal. 987 00:53:49,735 --> 00:53:52,448 What? Excuse me? You know that Friday night dinner 988 00:53:52,592 --> 00:53:54,030 starts at 8:00 p.m. sharp, 989 00:53:54,118 --> 00:53:55,820 and you didn't even set the table this week. 990 00:53:55,907 --> 00:53:59,256 How much effort does it take to throw down some paper plates? 991 00:53:59,344 --> 00:54:01,225 Why is it so hard for you to be nice? 992 00:54:01,313 --> 00:54:04,124 Like, why can't you say, "I'm sorry" or "I was late" 993 00:54:04,212 --> 00:54:05,389 or "I made a mistake"? 994 00:54:05,491 --> 00:54:07,100 You want to talk about being nice? 995 00:54:07,188 --> 00:54:10,471 I recall that it was just last weekend when Pray Tell 996 00:54:10,559 --> 00:54:13,312 disrespected me in front of all my peers at the ball. 997 00:54:13,459 --> 00:54:15,147 Ain't nobody disrespect you. 998 00:54:15,235 --> 00:54:19,092 I called your black selfish ass out for being a bad example, 999 00:54:19,180 --> 00:54:21,272 and it's about time somebody did. 1000 00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:23,474 And this is not about your stank-ass attitude, Elektra, 1001 00:54:23,561 --> 00:54:26,577 this is about you showing up to be a part of the house. 1002 00:54:26,665 --> 00:54:28,726 And you didn't pay your share of the rent this month. 1003 00:54:28,813 --> 00:54:30,445 Neither did any of these little bottom feeders! 1004 00:54:30,532 --> 00:54:32,145 Elektra, they ain't got no money. 1005 00:54:32,233 --> 00:54:34,537 But you, with all these new furs and jewelry, 1006 00:54:34,625 --> 00:54:36,740 strutting around, but you must be getting plenty of money 1007 00:54:36,827 --> 00:54:38,015 from somewhere. Where is you getting 1008 00:54:38,102 --> 00:54:39,675 all this money from, Queen of the Nile? 1009 00:54:39,763 --> 00:54:41,741 Where is you getting all this finery? 1010 00:54:44,744 --> 00:54:47,889 I don't owe you an explanation for anything. 1011 00:54:47,985 --> 00:54:49,723 I've had enough of this abuse. 1012 00:54:49,811 --> 00:54:51,604 Just because I was down on my luck for a moment 1013 00:54:51,691 --> 00:54:53,117 does not mean I'll spend the rest of my life 1014 00:54:53,204 --> 00:54:54,897 living like some indentured servant. 1015 00:54:54,985 --> 00:54:58,170 I am not a slum rat like the rest of you whores! 1016 00:54:58,914 --> 00:55:00,866 I don't owe you any answers, 1017 00:55:00,954 --> 00:55:02,491 I don't owe you any manners, 1018 00:55:02,579 --> 00:55:05,022 and I most certainly don't owe you a goddamn apology 1019 00:55:05,110 --> 00:55:06,913 for being late to a 99-cent meal 1020 00:55:07,001 --> 00:55:09,467 made from canned meat and prison-grade toilet wine! 1021 00:55:13,687 --> 00:55:15,067 - Guess what. - You don't have to 1022 00:55:15,155 --> 00:55:17,715 tell me I'm out of the house. I quit, bitch! 1023 00:55:17,803 --> 00:55:20,538 And you best not ever show your face in the ballrooms again. 1024 00:55:20,626 --> 00:55:22,509 I'm going to eat you alive on that runway. 1025 00:55:22,597 --> 00:55:25,233 Of that you can be sure! 1026 00:55:29,872 --> 00:55:31,592 ("Vogue" by Madonna playing) 1027 00:55:31,694 --> 00:55:33,207 (door slams) 1028 00:55:35,878 --> 00:55:38,725 - Can I have her bed? - (sighs) 1029 00:55:52,427 --> 00:55:53,657 (doorbell rings) 1030 00:55:57,397 --> 00:56:00,597 I'm joining your house. You're welcome, bitches. 1031 00:56:01,837 --> 00:56:03,680 How's everybody feeling tonight? 1032 00:56:03,767 --> 00:56:05,220 (cheering) 1033 00:56:05,307 --> 00:56:06,420 PRAY TELL: All right, all right. 1034 00:56:06,507 --> 00:56:08,483 So, listen, I just want to take a moment 1035 00:56:08,639 --> 00:56:12,131 to acknowledge one of the pioneers of the ballroom. 1036 00:56:14,847 --> 00:56:20,230 In 1970, Pop, Spin, Dip 1037 00:56:20,514 --> 00:56:21,670 was introduced 1038 00:56:21,772 --> 00:56:24,225 right here on the ballroom floor. 1039 00:56:24,351 --> 00:56:26,168 Now, as legend would have it, 1040 00:56:26,256 --> 00:56:30,051 Paris Dupree was flipping through a Vogue magazine 1041 00:56:30,139 --> 00:56:33,663 and saw the poses that the models were doing. 1042 00:56:33,881 --> 00:56:36,428 She brought it right back here to the ballroom floor, 1043 00:56:36,561 --> 00:56:39,506 imitating the models to the beat. 1044 00:56:39,594 --> 00:56:43,569 This is the category as we know it today. 1045 00:56:43,664 --> 00:56:45,617 Know your history, children. 1046 00:56:45,950 --> 00:56:50,104 Now, let's Vogue like Paris! 1047 00:56:51,565 --> 00:56:53,776 ♪ Come on, Vogue ♪ 1048 00:56:55,157 --> 00:56:58,440 ♪ Let your body move to the music ♪ 1049 00:56:58,527 --> 00:57:00,610 - ♪ Move to the music ♪ - ♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪ 1050 00:57:00,697 --> 00:57:02,401 ♪ Come on, Vogue ♪ 1051 00:57:03,464 --> 00:57:06,479 ♪ Let your body go with the flow ♪ 1052 00:57:06,567 --> 00:57:09,449 - ♪ Go with the flow ♪ - ♪ You know you can do it ♪ 1053 00:57:09,537 --> 00:57:12,478 ♪ Beauty's where you find it ♪ 1054 00:57:12,566 --> 00:57:17,119 ♪ Not just where you bump and grind it ♪ 1055 00:57:17,207 --> 00:57:20,728 ♪ Soul is in the music, oh ♪ 1056 00:57:20,816 --> 00:57:25,353 ♪ That's where I feel so beautiful ♪ 1057 00:57:25,441 --> 00:57:29,283 - ♪ Magical, life's a ball ♪ - (shouts) 1058 00:57:29,371 --> 00:57:32,135 ♪ So get up on the dance floor ♪ 1059 00:57:32,223 --> 00:57:33,515 ♪ Come on, Vogue... ♪ 1060 00:57:33,603 --> 00:57:34,797 (laughing) 1061 00:57:34,885 --> 00:57:37,664 ♪ Let your body move to the music ♪ 1062 00:57:37,752 --> 00:57:39,410 - ♪ Move to the music ♪ - ♪ Hey, hey, hey... ♪ 1063 00:57:39,497 --> 00:57:42,365 I told you, everything is changing. 1064 00:57:42,453 --> 00:57:44,552 This is just the beginning. 1065 00:57:44,640 --> 00:57:45,937 (cheering) 1066 00:57:46,025 --> 00:57:49,414 ♪ You know you can do it ♪ 1067 00:57:50,277 --> 00:57:52,221 ♪ Vogue, Vogue, Vogue, Vogue. ♪ 1068 00:58:08,422 --> 00:58:11,968 Captioned by Media Access Group at WGBH 1069 00:58:12,056 --> 00:58:14,056 Sync corrections by srjanapala