Gay culture celebrated at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem
The annual JLM Ball has its roots in the ballroom scene, an underground LGBTQ subculture from New York City in the 1960s.
Hundreds of people gathered at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on Thursday for the annual JLM Ball, a key event of the LGBT community.
The JLM Ball, which began in Jerusalem in 2019, has its roots in the ballroom scene, an underground LGBTQ subculture from New York City in the 1960s.
Participants competed in different categories, such as catwalks, dances, fashion and posing.
It provides a “safe space for the trans and queer community members to express themselves freely and without fear of discrimination and exclusion.”
This year’s event was held in association with the Israel Museum’s exhibition Adornment – Jewelry and Body Decoration in Prehistoric Times.
The theme connecting the ball and the exhibition was the “fluidity of human identity; jewelry, clothing, and ornaments as identity-generating elements that convey complex social and personal messages; and the ability that clothes and jewelry give humans to metamorphose.”
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