The ball scene was never really only gay people. I think people have this notion that if there’s a man hanging around a gay man, he must be gay, but that’s just stigma. Back in the day, it was the same; there were lots of different people there: gay, straight, whatever. They did not care what they were called because they knew who they were. Mj Rodriguez Read Quote
There’s so much you can say about the ballroom scene. But, simply, it’s just a way of life. It’s a place you can live out a fantasy you never lived before. Mj Rodriguez Read Quote
Sometimes I wake up, and I wear jeans; sometimes I want to wear khakis or full-on overalls. Mj Rodriguez Read Quote
When I was in high school, I was doing a fashion show, and my House Father would host fashion shows at the school. He was great at it. He saw me and said, ‘That’s my daughter.’ The rest was history! We went to New York City to rehearse and go to balls, and I was in the ballroom scene until I was 17 years old. Mj Rodriguez Read Quote
Rent’ was one of the main defining moments, and it was like the precipice of my transition. Mj Rodriguez Read Quote
Sometimes I feel like my life is at risk. It doesn’t matter if I’m famous or not. My life is as much at risk as other women. Mj Rodriguez Read Quote
Today I may advocate through my art, but I’ve won my share of ‘hood fights.’ So if I ever saw one of my sisters being beaten in the street, I’d be the first one to jump in. Mj Rodriguez Read Quote
Me, as a woman of the trans experience, I’m not able to have children biologically. And I have always been someone who was very, very… I wanted to have a traditional family, as a young kid. The wife and the kids and, you know… as I grew older, times changed, and my mindset changed. Mj Rodriguez Read Quote
Pose’ itself is about family. It’s about all kinds of families and how they bring themselves together and how they uplift each other and how they fight even harder to move forward. Mj Rodriguez Read Quote
