Contestants at the "Anti-Theatron Ball" competed in three categories: Runway, Sex Siren, and Vogue Femme as they showed off their style, raunchy moves and dance skills to a cheering crowd. Photo by Cristian Garavito Cruz for VICE World News.
Several hundred people from Colombia's ballroom community gathered on June 4 in Bogotá's gay neighborhood of Chapinero outside of El Muro, a restaurant associated with the famous gay club Theatron. Using a makeshift runway on a blocked off street they held an 'Anti-Theatron Ball' in protest of the club that they say is classist, racist and transphobic in who it allows to enter. Photo by Cristian Garavito Cruz for VICE World News.
Ballroom is an LGBTQ subculture of dance and modeling competitions founded in New York City by Black and Latino gay men and trans women and brought into the mainstream by Madonna's Vogue. Over the past eight years it has started to reach Latin America, arriving in Colombia around 2016. Photo by Cristian Garavito Cruz for VICE World News.