Machine generated contents note: One.Introduction: Performing Gender, Creating Kinship, Forging Community -- Two."Ain't Nothing Like a Butch Queen": The Gender System in Ballroom Culture -- Three.From Home to House: Ballroom Houses, Platonic Parents, and Overlapping Kinship -- Four."It's Gonna Get Severe Up in Here": Ball Events, Ritualized Performance, and Black Queer Space -- Five."They Want Us Sick": Ballroom Culture and the Politics of HIV/AIDS.
