Paris is Burning & The Tragic Story of Venus Xtravaganza
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Today I talk about the drag scene & ball scene in New York during the 1980’s. I also talk about the 1990 documentary called Paris is Burning along with the tragic story of Venus Xtravaganza.
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I want to clarify that I mistakenly used the wrong wording when describing Venus. I’ve gotten many, many of the same comments about a specific part of the video. I have always believed trans women are real women. I try to make it clear throughout the video that I was doing my best to be respectful. I may not always use the “right words” but my intentions are good and I’m always learning. No one is perfect.
Talking about sensitive topics can be like walking on eggshells, it’s difficult but important! I’ve also gotten plenty of rude comments from gatekeepers telling me I have no right making a video about the LGBTQ+ community because I’m straight. First of all, sorry not sorry. Second of all, bold of some of you to assume my sexuality.
Venus’s nephew and friends loved the video and didn’t find it offensive at all, and I’m happy with that. It shouldn’t matter who’s bringing awareness to very important issues, or how it’s being delivered, as long as it’s being done.
I forgot to mention that there are some spoilers in this video about Paris is Burning. If you don’t want me to ruin it for you, I suggest you watch the movie first and then come back to this 😁
I also had to trim out the trailer to the movie which makes for a strange jump cut so I’m sorry about that.
Also, I want to clarify that Venus might have died because she crossed paths with a psycho, not just because the killer may have found out she was transgender. No one will ever know for sure, but that’s why I talked about hate crimes. I didn’t realize I didn’t explain myself very well until after I watched it back 🤷♀️💕🖤
It's A OK, Sam. Anyone with a brain would've known that. You don't even need much context clues that the perpetrator might have been some nut-job. Anybody who would murder under those conditions would have to be a psychopath. Thing is, some Transgenders (or whatever the victim might have been) don't always come out that they're actually the opposite sex of whomever they're about to get down and dirty with; but violence towards them - and most importantly death - is inhumane and just plain wrong. I can see some people (assholes) leaning towards Venus was asking for it when she didn't give details about her gender, but come the fuck on, she never would've deserved to die. It's fucked up in this world. Nobody can truly express themselves. Society's full of assholes who demean and degrade others just because they're different. Just because of their skin color, ethnic background, gender, sexual orientation, clothes, hairstyles, eye colors, size of their fucking arm. It's getting stupid. People will think of anything to marginalize others into groups they oppose for the dumbest reasons - and society worldwide as a whole are buying in to this shit. It doesn't matter! What you look like, who you are, what you do, where you came from. All of those evil assholes are only contradicting themselves. They're hypocrites and I'll tell you why. By degrading those people, they're showing just how insecure they are. What's the point of this and what does it accomplish? They should be smart enough to conjure up an answer. All this hate is useless and is getting us nowhere as an "intellectual" species. I honestly find animals, like pigs, smarter than these fuck-wits. We should be focusing our concern to better the aspects of society that actually matter. They're stuck in the norm of average human expression and doesn't know the meaning of 'Free Will'. Anything that's different to them is evil and should be hunted down to extinction. And the shitty thing is that not all of them started that way. Society taught them that. And it pains me that this will keep going on forever and forever and forever until human extinction. Generations upon generations will experience just how "far" we've come as a "civilised" race.
I probably didn't explain my points and themes well, I only hope you understood the gist of what I was trying to say. I just wish they're more people like you in this world. People only pay attention to the worst of things and negativity as a whole... A bit of optimism could go lengths for all of us - a cliché saying, but true. Sorry for the essay-long rant. Thanks for the video, Sam 👍✌💘
Great Vid , I saw paris is burning a year after its release in SF and 3 years later I moved to NYC !!! I recently saw the "outtakes" from the movie the scenes which never made to "paris is burning" !!! The venus that's shown in the movie is one sided !!! In the outtakes Venus takes about her grandmother who raised her and other topics and she was really very loving and caring soul !!! Jenny should have included more of her personal life details that venus talked about in camera !!! She ate like a horse must have had the highest metabolism ever !!!!bless you Venus !!!
I also think she could’ve had borderline personality disorder based on how Angie described her. It doesn’t make her a bad person. She was hurt and discarded by the world from childhood so it makes sense. Since people with BPD tend to be impulsive and reckless, she could’ve accidentally said the wrong thing to this person and it escalated to physical violence. This is why mental health is important, especially for marginalized communities. Everyone deserves to thrive. Venus truly is a lost princess, not Anastasia Romanov.
It amazes me and yet at times angers me the way you people talk about how we lived our life back then because of no real choice of our own. I am one of the few and I mean the few people that was there and still alive fortunately to this day! Venus wasn't the only one, so was Miss Chloe so with Miss Rhonda so was Miss Michael so was the tragedy of Sandy who's also in Paris is burning! The bottom line is this, most of those "people" children's, because that's what they were in Paris is burning was kicked out on the street as children's barely off the age 10 years old simply because they were gay and was forced into a life of prostitution and joining gangs as a small way of having some protection for themselves which we called "houses" they were not this glamorize thing that Paris is burning has show case I know, I was there! Today if these parents do what those parents did back then they will be hit with child abuse and negligent charges and probably plastered all over the media! Societee took terrible of advantage of those under age children that also includes Madonna!.. Madonna was very popular even back when she seen us dancing to killed time, instead of taken advantage of us she could have used her celebrity status to bring awareness of the plight to the horrible situation and violence the degradation of the gay community Of these kids tossed out on to the street standing on the corner at 12 and 13 and 14 year old picking up truck drivers in any car to have sex just to make $5 to get something to eat putting their life in danger! Instead she use it to make profit for herself! So now you want credit for your so called explanation? Dorian or Venus who you didn't even know but I did along with Phoenix kamali, ivory and many many others! All these decades later and no one still gets the real tragedy of what our lives was like! All you have to do is look at the beginning of Paris is burning, it's not about the dancing, it starts with the two- kids standing outside a "BLUES" a drag club at that time in the mid 1980s with the interviewer Janine was talking to a 15 and a 13 year old child in the middle of the street at 3:30 in the morning on a school day! Because they were on the streets and right after that they would walk a few blocks down and turn tricks in the car just to make money and go to a gay bathhouse to sleep or on the piers because societee didn't give a dam because they were gay and they were of color and their parents kick them out the house as well, that's the real story!
@@itsokitsok5020 Hey, thank you for sharing your story. It does mean a lot to me to hear from you. You and the others deserved so much better. I hope you find the peace and closure you deserve 💕
Venus was my Aunt. I was born a few years after her murder. Thank you for this video. I would've loved to have known the beautiful soul that she was.
Yes, she was a Beautiful Soul💜
Do you have souvenir about your aunt? Do your family talked about her?
Altho you didnt get to meet her "irl", I'm so sorry for your loss. She was an unforgettable electric and beautiful spirit......that stays in my head some 30 years since I first saw the film. She'll always live on in the hearts of those who knew and loved her. 💜
How is your family doing today. I knew venues very well and actually stayed over at Venus house when she lived with her grandmother in jersey city. Grandma wasn't very happy venues brought me over and I understood completely. Grandma was Old-school and she didn't get permission for me to stay the night but Grandma didn't ask me to leave which was very nice of her to. LoL. I have great memories of your aunt. As small as she was she had a huge heart. I miss her dearly. ❤
Your Aunt left her mark on the world. I saw “Paris is Burning” when it first came out. Your aunt was the STAR-I’ve never forgotten her!
Venus was legendary. She was a star.
And for Nikita Dragun to use her and other trans women with “D*CK” on their faces?! Is just plain disrespectful. These trans women and drag queens are the real TRANS POPSTARS. Periodt
I new Venus Extravaganza very well. I actually stayed over her house once or twice with a friend. It was so sad when we found out about her death in late 1988. It felt like there was a dark cloud over us for a while. Well I know I was affected by her death saying to myself, I can't believe I wasn't going to see her anymore. Venus was always a lot of fun to be around. As small as she was she made up for it with her funny ways & kindness. I remember a night we were all at a club called the Paradise Garage in downtown Manhattan. Boy George happened to be in the club hanging out and guess who ends up sitting on Boy George's lap? Know other than Venus herself. Venus had Boy George laughing so much. He was loving little Venus. It's times like that, that make me miss venus something terribly. I miss her dearly. She did not deserve to die like that. No one does. RIP my little sister. God Bless your Soul.🙏
Sadddddd very saddd someone choked her in a hotel .the hotel didn’t have any cameras , how about the men you pay when u go to a hotel I mean the manager
what year was this that the Boy George thing happened
@@christmastree6817 I would say around 1986 or 87. Venus was so small next to Boy George. I'm 5'7 Venus was about 5'2 maybe smaller. Bless her soul.🙏💕🙏
@@kellymendez there were rumors it was a certain person who was obsessed with her she knew but there were just rumors. Her boyfriend at the time was heartbroken. He really loved Venus. I ran into him years later he is
doing well and got married has kids to. I was happy for him.
@@rickyparrilla2426 ohh. Wow
quick note: To become a member of a house you would have had to walked a few balls in your perspective category. Venus walked Femme Queen Realness and fashion categories so there was no voguing involved in her career. Ballroom is not just voguing, voguing is just Ballroom’s greatest export outside of our lingo.
Exactly that's what white people know of our Ballroom scene they will never be a part of it doesn't matter if they are in the house they will never truly be a part of their just visiting just like Madonna look how fast she came around and then left using for aesthetic for a while and then switching up everything we always creates ourselves white people always have to have a hand in it they want it for themselves because they're s*** is boring
The research footage in its entirety for the documentary is incredible. Some 5+ hours. The final cut is just a highlight reel. I think the criticism with its release is because the girls wanted it to be cinematic glamour. But instead it captured what was raw, real, and unpolished. Which in my opinion makes it all the more breathtaking. The hopes, dreams and confidence they ooze are at center stage as much as the pain, death, and depression hidden in plain sight. They each wanted fame and to be remembered as women. They got their wish.
This comment is Everything 🥰
From what I’ve been told the biggest issue they had was they weren’t paid. Jenny Livingston reaped all the benefits.
Jules in Euphoria reminds me of her a bit, the air of freedom, her sexuality, her beauty.
HUNTER SCHAFER! We need a BIOPIC! It will Sky rocket her to ACADEMY AWARD First transgender to win the OSCARS!
Venus was someone I respected so much,because she was never afraid to be herself,& that takes courage,& here it is all these yrs later,& still nobody knows who murdered her R.I.P.VENUS
Police back then had no respect for gay people let alone transvestites. I'm sure they didn't take her case very seriously. I remember asking for help by two Police officers around that time and they completely ignored me. I have never forgotten that. They treated gay people like freaks.
Venus is the Marilyn Monroe of Paris is Burning..like Marilyn an innocent beauty you want to rescue from the darkside of life used and discarded by men , wanting always to have been excepted by society , youthful & beautiful..both Legendary for Eternity......... rest in eternal peace our Goddesses 💙💚💜❤
Wow what a Beautiful Eulogy!!!👏👏👏👏👍👏👏👏👏👏
Stop comparing iconic women of colour (specially transwomen) to white women who were pushed into the spotlight by a white supremacist society because iconic black women’s talents weren’t recognized. It’s insulting tbh. Most of these ‘sex icon’ white women (like Madonna) stole from LGBT POC and black women anyhow. I’m sick of black artists always being compared to white people because people genuinely have no idea about the talents that existed in the black world or that black people invented what famous white artists imitated.
@@NatsumiTakanawa girl relax...its not that serious..your the one making a useless arguement.. I'm talking about women how they are treated by men used no respect discarded, and that's in any race religion culture , nothing to do with color..so please it's about women who were adored by people regardless of color good hearted beings..not everything is about race...chill have a drink make a toast to Venus & Marilyn while your at it..♡ Venus..was not a artist singer dancer or actress she was italian white skin..not a woman of color although she hung around many goddesses of color♡
don't ever compare men pretending to be women to actual women. thanks.
@@verminlord666 ☝️mind your business troll🤣😂
She was never in a place where she was safe. She found a home where she didn't have to live in fear alone. Thank you for making this video.
Her story always made me so sad and resonated with me as a young adult. Its so sad to think about because Venus wasnt scared to be herself but you could see how scared she was of the world. She was such a light but you could see the mix of hope and fear in her eyes.
Even in her death her family still refuses to acknowledge her as she or venus which is very disgusting. The hate in transphobic people is very strong and very disturbing and so wrong. They dont get to decide other people's identify. Her tombstone should say venus not her dead name she would have hated that im sure she's turning in her grave even in her death her parents refuse to respect her. Her transphobic parents can honestly go to hell.
I saw her "find a grave" and it says her male name.smh!
They simply were not playing the game.
@@sypros5621 who she is is not a game. Read your other 3 comments. Your a HUGE piece of 💩. You must live a very happy life.
Her life was louder, than any tombstone
Her family have no obligations to placate anybody. Venus was a biological man and that was her birth name. We do not get to decide on what we are in terms of race and gender because it is ingrained in our DNA. Whatever we think to the contrary only exist in our heads. Even if we change via hormones or surgery, our bodies will continue to go through changes throughout our lives as our biological sex.
You did the Venus Justice!!!❤
I hung out with Angie and Venus they taught me how to work in the park and pier.Angie took me under her wing.As best real female.I preformed in Sweats to bring in the females.
Do you remember things about Venus?
I have watched this several times. I knew Venus from Jersey City where she lived. Before she moved to New York. I remember when she started to come out of the closet (how we used today back then). SAD that her killer was not caught!!! This case should be reopened.
You're a true Ally, Sammy! Ive just discovered your channel and you slay it.
Thank you so much ☺️ 🖤
It consider it very noble and important to tell what people had to endure in life and what happened to them. Life was difficult then and still is now.
The first time I watched “Paris is burning” was because I heard it mentioned here. It is a very interesting documentary that makes you understand, or at least try, how others have to cope with their problems and when they are ostracized by society. Besides that, I watched both seasons of POSE and on some moments, some scenes did seem a little too much in terms of drama or imagination, but now I realize that POSE depicts REAL situations of life and thus, perhaps Life will always beat imagination. That being said, now there is a Pandemic and the whole world seems altered, but not in good sense. Bottomline, who was ill treated before will be chocked now, that everything has gotten so much worse. I stand by my point, it is paramount to tell all kinds of life stories so that we ALL can understand how evil and unfair the world can be towards us all.
“𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗋𝖾 𝗇𝗈𝗍 𝗀𝗈𝗇 𝖻𝖾𝗅𝗂𝖾𝗏𝖾 𝖺 𝗐𝗁𝗈𝗅𝖾 𝗍𝗋𝖺𝗇𝗌𝗌𝖾𝗑𝗎𝖺𝗅”
Candy ferocity-
WOW...WOW!! So interesting! I have never heard of Paris is Burning, I'm gonna watch it this weekend. Ty for sharing this sad but intriguing story!
Thank you so much! 🖤 I know you’ll like it 😁 I also found a show on Netflix called Dragula, it’s like RuPauls Drag Race except it’s really dark and gothic. I binged a whole season last night 😆
It’s up for free on CZcams!
watch Pose it’s on Netflix & it’s good!!
I found it hard to believe that they can't find the person that was in the room with Venus estravaganza!😭
They didn’t care to find who it was. 😕
Thank you for bringing this tragedy to light. Thousands of transgender youth are being killed needlessly and their cases need to be solved. They were human also.
You’re such a lovely person, thank you so much for this video, just watched Paris is burning and I’m looking for any related video
This video is brilliantly done 🥰
I watched this you did good Samantha everyone wants to be remembered and I think you showed compassion. This is sad how things happened for the worst for many of the people from the film and no one covered their stories afterward it's great to see you are paying homage to them they deserve it LONG LIVE the 1980's!!!.
Good stuff! This provided extra info I didn't know about Venus and her murder. Just watched the show "Pose" (based on this world back then) and they had a murder like that in the plot line. Very sad!
So well done!
Great vid. My brother has been in the house of Aviance since the 80s, but is now in MIA. As New Yorkers, we knew first hand about balls/houses. Btw, no tea no shade, Greenwich (Village) is pronounced, Gren - Nich. 😉
I really like your energy ❤️ I subscribed
Thank you for making such a heartfelt video and taking the time to do your research about the ball scene and about Venus and also Dorian. You seem like a very nice and caring person. ❤️
R.I.H. Venus.😇😇😇😇
What dose that mean?
@@christiandoctor6100 rest in heaven.
@@christiandoctor6100 they put an angel emoji lol
So glad Pase remember her. I wish she was still her.
Great video, well done
You did such a great job with this video! Liked and subbed!! Thank you for correcting yourself in the comments too.
For real, they were the true icons and legends. New subscriber here!
the real not slim but shady Thank you for subscribing 🖤👻
Very good video! Congrats!
You covered this story so well Thank You !❤❤❤❤🥰🥰🥰 great job .......
Thank you for this video Samantha. It was very well done. You really did your research and your presentation was amazing! ❤🙏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
Thank you so much! I’m glad you enjoyed it 😁
Samantha Ghost you have some great topics on this channel! I hope you're going to keep it going as I am officially subbing !!
Thank you! 🖤
I love your energy, your honesty and your passion... Keep it up beautiful ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you so much 🖤
New to this channel 👌😌 good job
Great job covering this story. Just a thought, do you think mariahlynn from love n hip-hop new York could be related to Venus?? I mean they have the same backgrounds and from Jersey City and also they resemble a lot. Just a thought that can to mind. Great job again ❤️
How am I just finding you... Subscribed and You I #Stan for officially ✊🏿 Much Love
(I already typed out the whole comment I had on this video, but it got deleted somehow. I'm so pissed, I can't even fathom it into words. I could swallow lava....!! 😤😤😤) This is probably by far my favorite video of yours - and that's saying a lot considering how much of a fan-boy I am of your channel. I love the research you put in to this video; a lot of effort and passion must've went into this one, seeing as the topic at hand is so sensitive. You must've learned a bunch about the history of the LGBTQ+ making this video and garnered a whole new appreciation for who they are and what they stand for - I know I have. And I ain't saying all your other vids lacks in comparison to this *clears throat*, but your passion for this one REALLY shows!
It's kind of odd to me how nobody covered a hands-on video about Venus, even though she's as prominent a figure as Dorian Corey herself. Sam, you really have a knack cor discussing serious real-world problems, the irregular and iconic figures amongst our society, and I appreciate that. Of all the videos you could be made. You really care about shedding light on important - sometimes obscure - topics in your vids, and that's what makes you stand out to me.
I hadn't a clue about the LGBTQ+ scene throughout the early 1900s, so that one really caught me as something interesting and worth keeping in mind. People were expressing themselves freely when being different meant ridicule, abandonment, isolation and sometimes death. There was just so much blindness back then of preferences, it blinded us to the fact we're all humans and we're all in this world together, whether we like it or not. Venus was one of many who expressed herself without a care in the world, as if all this hatred on human nature & expression never existed. For that, I can't help but idolize her. You helped me expand what I knew about others and the world we live in once more, Sam, and I thank you tons for it. You did Venus and all those ridiculed justice. Karma's gonna come at you twice as hard for all the good you teach us on every one of your videos. Stay safe and as always, you're the coolest 😸👍✌
What a colourful and exciting life she had! RiP Queen! ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you sweetie for making this
a tightrope to be walked before you find your people and even then......... touches my heart. love and respect xx
Thank you for humanizing Venus and shedding light on trans women needing to be protected
Love your video of Venus E. Just to recap your account of her murder, it seems plausible that Venus, in fact, did die from her injuries, due to the crime photos. She did not run away with a lover. Conversations observed over the years hint on the murderer as the very person who originally threatened her life, or a curmudgeon ( a sugar daddy type).
Hector Extravaganza was not venue's gay father. Frankie Magnific was venue's gay father. They show them walking together in Paris is Burning. Frankie was so hurt by venues murder. We all were hurt by that. Everyone loved venues she was harmless and fun to be around. She is missed still.
Ty.. I was approached today about something regarding venus n I decided to do research on the story.... iv heard stories from my mother cuz she was actually venus's best friend... but I never knew the story was an actual known known story... so ty
You’re very welcome!
You did a great job. She was a flower among a lot of weeds. Beautiful job ❤
Does anyone know where The Duchess Hotel is located at? I know it may seem morbid but I’m just wondering...RIP Venus 💞
I think that, You and your Chanell are awesome!
Thank you so much 😊
Venus used to babysit me.
@Juliette Vanidad - I was too young to remember, I was but an infant.
Please don't stop producing content. Your work is great.🎉
Venus was such a beautiful person and soul she knew exactly who she was and what she wanted sbf lots of ppl can't say that about themselves the last scene with Venus smoking by the boombox I was obsessed with it gave me chills
Thank You.
Thank you well spoken story
The house of Extravaganza did a ball and raise the money for her funeral
If we keep talking about it hopefully they will give pressure to the NYC Police Department to investigate the cold Case file
I enjoyed this video. It's an important topic still today and personally I think it's very good that cis-women also makes content about it and not just trans people. And people are still learning with pronouns etc. Very good work girl. Peace & Love ✌️❤️
Thank you so much 😊 I’m glad you liked it
Just found your youtube channel, and i have to say, my GOD this is an AMAZING video! i personally think this should be a documentary, the editing is great!! i found this from everywhere at the end of time, and i am so happy i did! stupendous job, keep it up!! :D
FlowerBed Arts Thank you so much, that means a lot 🖤
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@@rwarwa4025 lol what
Such a sweet soul❤
Great video! I’m glad to have found you, subscribed.
PS. It’s Gren-Itch not Greenwitch. No big deal, just FYI, some “New Yorkers” will eat you alive for that. And by New Yorkers, I mean people who moved there 2 years ago
No lies 😭🤣I didn't know she meant the village at first .
As a born and raised New Yorker, I would like to say thanks for mentioning the GRENNich pronunciation. It always helps lend additional credence to a documentary when the person has clearly done all their research and takes the time to get the names of people and places right, but it is a rare thing! The only person I think I can say does this seemingly 100% without fail is Shrouded Hand.
Thank you for making a video about Miss Venus. There must be DNA evidence on her clothes and the bedding around her body. Why doesn't the Police test the evidence for DNA? Her murder must be looked into. Her murderer must be brought to justice. It's still an open case. What can we do to force the police to do more than just look into her case? How do we get the police to test the DNA evidence from the crime seen and her clothing?
It’s my pleasure, thank you for watching! I wish I knew how to make them go back and test everything, it’s still a cold case so they should still be looking into new leads at least, but there are none :( maybe people could write to the police department? And ask them to look at her case again, but it might take a lot of people to persuade them
The world has changed SO MUCH since the wonderful and glorious 1980s. In most ways, I definitely think the change has been dramatically for the worst, but forensic testing capabilities are one thing that is remarkably better. Back then, far less DNA could be extracted and preserved, and far less could be done with it, unfortunately.
Venus and Angie we used to hang out in the piers breaking night in the summer time
I love Paris is burning it's special to me since I'm also trans ever since I seen it years ago sometimes when am feeling down I watch it and it makes me feel better poor Venus I hope she's resting in peace she was beautiful!!!!!!!♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Great video! Very informative.
I was wondering about the Duchess Hotel. I can't find any evidence of it existing. There is a hotel called the Dutchess, but it's in upstate New York, not NYC. Does anyone know what happened to it? Thanks
Same. I can't tell you how hard i've searched. I think either that wasn't the true name of the hotel she was murdered at or the hotel still exists and the name was changed. Wish someone would confirm though.
The reason why she didn't have to walk because Papa Hector new with her petite frame and her features that once she is in a house and he invested a bit all of that was coming back because she was guaranteed to win especially for realness and that's the real one everybody wants and his investment did payoff even though she didn't get to chance to live the life that he wanted her to live and I wish that she had enough time to finish completing herself but like any of the Angel they had to go
Late but great video. As a puertorican being gay is not accepted at all. Even today you will be "accepted" but not really although the love for family members who are will be there. Great addition with the video clips love it as it makes audiences more engaged. Love you Samantha Ghost.
Great video. I loved this movie! Great break down about Venus.
You are a bigg star Darling remember guy’s to always record everything with your phone or camera and video camera we most leave a mark on this planet
Angie Extravaganza died before she was 30. Tragedy. 😊❤
The film cruising shows how the police treated the trans community & I’m from the uk we have prejudice here & I can only imagine how it is in the USA , iv been to NYC , San Fran … well done for this as more information is out there , much more of a chance there can be some justice or closure
I imagine they were fully aware she was trans , so much self hate crime ie the killer violently killed her due to there own horrendous mind set
There was no autopsy or anything like that because her family was ashamed and wanted it covered up Legend has it when Mama Angie told them didn't have much of a reaction didn't want to hear anything about it
Wow!! 😢
I'm watching Paris is burning and looking up a bit of ball scene as part of my novel research for a trans character in my story ❤️😊
Venus Xtravaganza was my favorite in Paris is Burning
Watch the show Legendary to see a ballroom competition!
I wanted to preface by saying i'm very thankfull for your video and research**
Just wanted to give you a small feedback too, in terms of more appropriate language - instead of "actually female" you can say "biological/biologically born female"; instead of "looked like a woman" saying "has a very feminine presentation" or "passing" as the default beauty standard (in a heteronormative society ofc). Don't confuse "being a woman" with being biologically born a female. Our language shapes ideas and I understood perfectly you have a lot of respect towards this subject, I'm sure you've grown in the subject as this video is more than a year old, but the way you spoke might be misinterpreted and used against you and the community. Yet, again, thank you for your work
I would love to see you do something about charmed.Theres been a debate about how the old charmed wasnt feminist and that it was offensive to some cultures.And theres also that thing with Shannon quitting and a possible physical fight between her and Alysa milano.btw you just got a new subscriber,I've been binge Watching you all night.
Thank you so much for subscribing, I really appreciate it! And I will definitely look into that, I don’t remember hearing about it so it will definitely be interesting to research it! Thank you for the suggestion 🖤
Yes!
I don't recall Dorian being a House parent. 😊❤
I remember her
She was found by the cleaning person
This is quality content, thank you for making it!
Not everyone wants or care to leave a mark in the world. They're other ways to leave a mark and not necessarily fame like people think. Not everyone wants to be famous.
Well, obviously. I was more referring to the specific group of people in the video
There’s other ways to leave a mark on the world besides fame...I don’t think Dorian was necessarily referring to fame alone
Tive um forte e profundo meio de aprender que a vida é uma graça.
You are such a good journalist. Hey, I have been wondering why lesbians don't take part in this ballroom stuff. Any ideas?
Thank you! And I’m sure there’s plenty out there, anyone can do drag so I’m sure they’re there 🙂
Venus is truly a lost princess, not Anastasia Romanov💔
praising a man pretending to be a woman over an actual woman who suffered such tragedy is disgusting. misogynistic freak.
Firstly, I want to thank you for your advocacy for LGBTQI+ folks and POC. It’s difficult for minorities in this country, but even more so when you are a compound minority. The only correction I have is when referring to the Trans population. We now know that to accurately identify one’s gender, a chromosome test must be implemented, gender isn’t merely our anatomical parts, but a deeper concept. To call trans women “not real” is the same as saying people born in this country who aren’t white are not real American.
HUNTER SCHAFFER for VENUS Biopic!
Great video Samantha.. I have a great video idea for you,.
Art Ms Ree Thank you! What video idea is that?
@@samanthaghost The story about a Drag Queen from Texas named Brandi West aka Cliff Youens
Art Ms Ree I’ll look into that, thank you for the suggestion!
Can you do a video on the transwoman Shalimar Seiuli? Her death was very suspicious. Ed Murphy gave her a ride at 2am in 1998. Hollywood made the scandal disappear.
I’ll definitely look into that, thank you for the suggestion!
rip Venus X ... gone too young
What is a spoiler
A spoiler is when someone tells you how something ends before you get to see it.
I wish new evidence would come to light.
Here's my theory: Venus picked up a trick who either drunk and horny enough to not notice Venus was a man until after the fact and the man went ballistic. Pretty common story.
@SamanthaGhost - your heart is in the right place, but I must correct you - the biological parents of Venus Xtravaganza were not around to denounce the dinner mystery theater based on her death in 2013. I would know this very well...because MY GRANDFATHER died in 2003, and MY GRANDMOTHER died in 2010, and unfortunately my aunt died when I was 18 months old.
I sent you a friend request and a private message on Facebook (look for a red Statue of Liberty pic) and you will be filled in on more.
God speed, comrade.
M. Pellagatti
P.S. you have really good taste in music. I have seen Soilwork live at Ozzfest 2005. Although I am more into power metal, symphonic metal, and thrash. Give me Judas Priest (that’s my number 1) Sabaton, Powerwolf, Unleash the Archers, Alien Weaponry, Pre-1990s Metallica, Maiden, Slayer, Visions of Atlantis any day...
Sometimes I can get down with Nightwish and Ghost too, but it really depends on how drunk I am.
@@MPP316 Thank you for watching and thank you for correcting that. Sometimes the information on the internet can be a bit off, I do try my best though 🙂 and music is life haha I love all music
I did not know Venus that well but I did use to see here around and I know exactly where the hotel she was murdered at and not all of the trans women from the movie I did know quite a few of them from when I use to hung out at the club on 42 second street club Sally’s Hideaway has been closed for some years now sad to say but all of them the movie are no longer with us
She was a sweet heart that got killed for being her and living her life as she pleases ..too have that happend too her was just plain ass wrong..just wrong.. I wonder if they ever found her killers....
R.I.P - #MissVenusXtravaganza🚬🚬💋💋🧚♀️🧚♀️