- Born
- Died
- Birth nameHector Crespo
- Nickname
- Grandfather of Ballroom
- Hector Xtravaganza was born on July 26, 1965 in Puerto Rico. He was an actor, known for Paris Is Burning (1990), Pose (2018) and Mirror, Mirror (1996). He died on December 30, 2018 in the USA.
- Long hair
- Served as The Father to The House of Xtravaganza from 1993 to 1997 then again from 1999 to 2003 before becoming the Grandfather of the House.
- Helped design window displays for stores like Bloomingdales.
- Designed clothes for Foxy Brown.
- Designed Lil' Kim's fur bikini for her "Crush On You" music-video.
- As many people knew, he was HIV+ (seropositive) for 30+ years.
- Once you're a child, it's a lifetime thing.
- 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.
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