Performers hope to celebrate underground community, promote HIV awareness at Toronto’s World AIDS Day Ball

Glitz, glamour and a whole lot of dancing will fill Toronto’s History concert venue on Saturday for an event to raise HIV awareness, share resources and connect people to care. Saturday night will mark the third annual World AIDS Day Ball, a celebration of ballroom culture performances in a space that organizers describe as “Black and brown lead” and inclusionary. According to Jazmine George, a performer at the ball who works for the Canadian Foundation for Aids Research (CANFAR), ballroom culture was an underground safe haven for many queer people and particularly Black folks who were being heavily stigmatised at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. “It was where they found c

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