For me, Xtravaganza is a home; not a house, it's a home. It gave me a platform to believe in family, whereas my biological family rejected me from the beginning. This really began to be a place where I feel like I belonged, and still belong.
[on the Xtravaganzas] We were family first, before we gave each other a name. We got a name because of the politics of ballroom but we will always be family.