Best Austin Bastion of Ballroom
House of Lepore
Ballroom culture, the historic drag competitions founded in underground Black and Latinx queer culture, blossoms in Austin thanks to the House of Lepore. Headed up by Mother Natalie, aka Ms. Girl 6, this drag family whips up breathlessly beautiful events with cash prizes that bring all the girlies out. Writing their names in the history books as the first official ball at South by Southwest, giving fantastic plastic at their April Doll Ball, and blazing forward a future for queer, BIPOC-prioritized spaces: It’s House of Lepore’s world, babe, and we’re just walkin’ in it.
