Butch Queens Up in Pumps examines Ballroom culture?? in which inner-city LGBT individuals dress?? dance?? and vogue to compete for prizes and trophies. Participants are affiliated with a house?? an alternative family structure typically named after haute couture designers and providing support to this diverse community. Marlon M. Bailey??s rich first-person performance ethnography of the Ballroom scene in Detroit examines Ballroom as a queer cultural formation that upsets dominant notions of gender?? sexuality?? kinship?? and community.