Party / residency · cross-linked record

Love Ball

drag / performance1989; revived 2010sNo fixed home · roving

Susanne Bartsch's landmark AIDS-benefit ball, first staged in 1989, which raised some $400,000 and carried Harlem ball culture into a fashion-world mainstream years before mass recognition. Bartsch revisited the format in later decades.

Where it happened

Manhattan

Location approximate by nature, a roving party leaves no single pin

Rooms it touched

Roseland Ballroom

1919 (founding) / 1956 (W. 52nd St.) – April 7, 2014 · Midtown, Manhattan

ClosedBallroom

Susanne Bartsch production featuring ballroom voguers; major AIDS charity event

Sources & further reading

Susanne Bartsch, Wikipedia
'Susanne Bartsch', Out