TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cassara,Joseph
TI  - The house of impossible beauties
SN  - 9781786073150
U1  - 813/.6 23
KW  - Gay youth
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Transgender people
KW  - Nineteen eighties
KW  - Nineteen nineties
KW  - Hispanic Americans
KW  - Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - 1980, New York City. Burned by her traumatic past, Angel is new to the drag world, new to ball culture, and has a yearning inside of her to help create family for those without. When she falls in love with Hector, a beautiful young man who dreams of becoming a professional dancer, the two decide to form the House of Xtravaganza, the first-ever all-Latino house in the Harlem ball circuit. But when Hector dies of AIDS-related complications, Angel must tend to their house alone. She recruits Venus, a whip-fast trans girl who dreams of finding a rich man to take care of her; Juanito, a quiet boy who loves fabrics and design; and Daniel, a butch queen who accidentally saves Venus's life. The Xtravaganzas lean on each other as bulwarks against a world that resists them
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