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How South Africa's queer underground is remaking ballroom in its own image
“DJ, cut the beat.” The room falls silent — an unforgivable sin anywhere else, but this is no nightclub. This is a ball. The competitors on the runway freeze mid-battle. The crowd murmurs, “Is it a chop?” On the mic is pioneering house mother Cheshire...