TV Series· 2018· Drama

Pose

by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk

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  • Ballroom culture

The series is set in the ballroom culture of 1980s and 1990s New York, the houses of Black and Latino LGBT people who competed in balls, and cast trans actors from that world.

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Pose

Pose is an American drama television series about New York City's ball culture, an LGBTQ subculture in the African-American and Latino communities, throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Featured characters are dancers and models, who compete for trophies and recognition in this underground culture and who support one another in a network of chosen families known as Houses.

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