Joan asking for their pro nouns back in the day really showed how much of a open minded person she was when drag queens were disgraced on television

The way Joan approached this with empathy rather than treating them like a spectacle is a behavior before it's time.

"Life is tough and balls are worse" the tiny grin on Joan's face shows she had herculean self control in that moment 🤣

It’s crazy his Pepper Lebeija literally created the term 24/7. Joan was so amazed by it. So much of the slang we use today was created by black gay and trans people from the NYC area in the 70s and 80s. And that’s a fact! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

RIP, Dorian, Pepper, Willie and, of course, Joan!

So glad this beautiful history was captured.

Pepper Labeija is so mesmerizing I could listen to her talk about her life for hours

Joan Rivers was always on our team. Forever Loved ❤️❤️❤️

Kim was 1 of my closest and dearest friends , I miss him dearly and Pepper was my mother when I was a LaBeija RIP🙏🙏

This is the reason why the LGBTQ+ community always embraced Joan. When she would have queens on the show, she would showcase them as talent and not as a joke. And would ask meaningful questions to try and allow her audience to understand the culture like she did.

These absolute QUEENS did not deserve that dry ass crowd! I would have been doing the most hahaha! I love these legends yaaaaas ❤️

You know Pepper's children miss him daily🌹🌷🌹🌷

Joan Rivers was just the best. The acceptance and interest in the subject is real.

With the exception of Jeanie. Everyone on that stage passed REST WELL ! I hung in the village and piers as well. I’m the generation after this one !! Before social media we all had an amazing time. Good memories I love seeing the ones before me

cant believe all these legends have left us now. rip, you all managed to make an impact 🙏🏻

Kudos to Joan Rivers! Little things like this helped in so many ways.

Love Dorian!! Had a whole body in her closet! !!!!Yessss!! I’m glad I grew up in NYC and had the pleasure to experience this! I’m a Straight black (Cis) woman. Back then I was called a (F- Hag!) And had so many gay friends! And lost so many also to the epidemic 😢

Joan was so fantastic.

I saw "Paris Is Burning" in the theatre. I was mesmerized by this entire world and I never knew existed. Now you can go on YT and see videos of Vogue Balls from all around the world; Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, London, etc. It's an entire world unto itself. I, luckily, own "Paris Is Burning" on dvd.

Joan Rivers was a treasure to humanity! I wish she was still here with us today

And this is why I loved and will always love Joan, she will forever be a legend. She showed loved to the community way before it was accepted publicly, her humor was like no other. My biggest regret was being to young to not see one of her comedy shows live!

When Joan walks out you realise how small she is against everyone!! Xx

I love them all.... but there's something so special about Dorian (despite her dark past). I think it's her wisdom and legacy in the ball culture.

❤️ Drag will NEVER Die!! Thank You 🦋

The audience was so dry 🙄 I woulda been LIVING 🗣

August 8, 1991. Credited cast: Dorian Corey, Pepper LaBeija, Esther Leake, Jennie Livingston, Willi Ninja, Freddie Pendavis, Kim Pendavis, Adrian Xtravaganza

Joan Rivers threw shade at Regis and Kathy 😂😂😂 RIP Joan and of course to all the House Legends!

Thank you for preserving this ♥️ wonderful to watch

'Beat your face' was used even back then and beyond.

All amazing performers and Dorian performed and made gowns. Willie did choreography and taught classes.

A lot of queens who are no longer with us. I adored every minute, except for when Livingston tried to talk over everyone. Thank you for sharing this!

"THE GODFATHER OF VOGUE R.I.P WILLIE NINJA

I am looooving La Beija. Very sad he died in the 00s. He is really beautiful and soooo very intelligent in this interview x Bless you Joan

Wow, loving this 💜💜💜 Aw Joan was so respectful, miss her. RIP.

I think if you were alive at the time you watch this differently. Even if you were far from NY and not LGBTQ+ you remember how the world was and how this was seen at the time. And how very, very special Joan was for this. So far ahead.

The Voguers that came out were fab❤❤❤❤

Willie and his team worked that stage🌷🌹🌷🌹

Amazing that this was 30 years ago

daaaamn Willy was FIIIIIINE!!😍🥺🥺

"I didn't like something she said earlier' love it

Thank you for posting this. Was so wonderful to watch.

Look at Dorian ...just sitting up there on tv like she ain’t got a dead body in her closet 💁🏻‍♀️

Willie Ninja is so cute... !

So sad that everyone on this stage except the director is deceased.

They are all so adorable ☺️

And the balls are main stream now .. these ppl are now legendary x

Just found gem. Thanks for uploading

I rented the bluray from Netflix, but disc 2 (which has this show) was not included. Thanks for making my viewing complete. Great doc, and I also like revisiting 90s TV through footage like this

I love you Pepper

Was the expression 24/7 really not known then?? Joan is just hearing it for the first time.

You have to watch the movie then watch this. WOW!

I remember watching this while I was still (fairly) young. I was obsessed! I stayed up late that night to watch the re-run bc I was afraid to record it.

Sweet Kim was so thin. May he rest. ❤️

OP. PU. LENCE.

Joan was so a head of her time. She asked them what their pronouns were. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Why is this not on the list of shows on the JRS on smart tv

Not Joan not knowing what 24/7 meant

23:39 love how Willie got his nuisance from his mother. The eye roll 😂

Wonder what Labieja’s children are like...

It's sad that none of the people in the film went far in life after this.....you would have thought it would have catapulted their lives but it was still not the thing.

Willie ninja is one of the most beautiful men ive ever seen

🖤🖤🖤

As much as I love Paris is burning there’s one thing I noticed quite clearly from this which I want to know what other peoples thoughts are or if they picked up on this: On the early days of filming they said Jenny told the cast it for a student film, I wonder when it eventually came time that she told them this would be a feature length miramax film? How does a student film transform to ‘oh we’re shooting today for the front poster’ or ‘oh guys were doing a Joan rivers special’ I’m sure she told them eventually and because of these opportunities the cast I assume were happy. However notice in the interview when Jenny talks about balls or houses the cast don’t really look at her as this is information they already know. However when Joan asks Jenny ‘how long till you knew you had a hit?’ And Jenny says she had to beg multiple executives for funding and the process she endured I noticed all the cast looking at her very clearly as if maybe they didn’t know that part of the information as this was from like a day before the day was actually released? Anyone else pick up on this? None the less legendary and this movie is cemented forever🎉

Everyone on that stage is no longer living

Joan was great looking in the early 1990s. On her second facelift and nose job, with the chic, more relaxed hairstyle and (usually) in a Chanel suit. Daytime realness. She was almost 60 and just looked great! As funny and irreverent as she was, people forget what an intelligent, attentive and young thinking interviewer she was. It's one of the reasons that her popularity was a bit C List. She was just too ballsy and outrageous - yet so proper and classy in her way too. She did not appeal to everyone. There was nobody like her. (Certainly NOT Kathy Griffin)

Asking pronouns in the g*ddamn year of 1990. That's THE Joan Rivers for y'all

Labeija's children!

Why was Kim Pendavis not included in the interivew? Thanks for uploading this!

All passed away

joan was always mother 🏳️‍🌈 god I miss her 😢

Anyone know the name of the third dancer during the voguing segment??

Banji being a straight mugger is nasty work 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

No way!!! They got exposure

Joan s greatest show-00bc-2099ad

This has my eyes in tears. What beautiful humans, sigh x Pity they are all gone :-( They are examples of what a community is unlike the LGBT and pass me every other letter of the youth today!

whats the song they vogue to that goes body-ody

It's a pity that Ninja didn't mention the Deep in Vogue video they were in. He mentioned there hasn't been a video that showed Vogueing properly but they showed it in. Deep in Vogue.

Only 1 person on this stage is still alive today :(

whos the guy with the long curly hair? not Willie

Why is she constantly talking over Labieja?? Getting on my nerves!!

I believe that comment Pepper said was bout freddie pendavis cause he said some funky shit bout Pepper's house in the film.

What happened to Kim Pendavis? She was introduced at the beginning but that was it and it wasn't mentioned after that

Get succes

Did they ever solve the Dorian Corey mummy in the trunk case??

Joan needs a SAINTHOOD! She did so much for the gay community when it was not cool to be gay.

What year was this?

Jennie was taught DOWN !!!

Were Pepper and Coolio the same person? 🤔😜

Pose pretty much stole everything these legends said and used it for mostly every Pose episode....

What's the name of the song played during the vogueing part?

r they all alive, still?

I hate how Joan Rives interrupts them before they finish what they're trying to say! But glad she had them in the show

Didn't Dorion have a dead body in his closet for like 20 years???

It's weird watching this knowing that Dorian has a mummified corpse hidden in his closet.

Jenny Livingston describing the categories is so cringey. Why is it so hard to let other cultures and sub cultures tell their own damn stories. If they are brilliant enough to create it, they are more than capable to talk about and profit from their creations.

I wonder if Jenny was 🌈..

God Joan stuttering drives me crazy! Sounds like she’s trying to hard!

Pendover lmao

Joan is clueless about this and imho she is talking too much

I’m sorry but I do NOT understand how Joan saw those two big ol mounds staring her in the face; then calls Dorian a “he”. AND had the nerve to say her breasts were “hairy”😩😩 god bless her wretched soul 😹😹😹