Kenya Hutton is an Advocate for All of Us
metroweekly.comParis is Burning on PBS.“I had a group of friends that I talked about it with, and they were very anti-ballroom,” he recalls. “So one day, I was at the Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York City, and a guy walked up to me and started talking with me, and he invited me to an event and I said, ‘Sure, I’ll come.’“I thought it was just a regular club on 28th Street.
I went and was talking to the guy, and then the music came on and then the commentator got on the mike. And I realized I was attending with a ballroom legend.
And as the ball was going on, I looked across the room and those same people who were telling me not to go to balls were sitting right in front row.
That was my first introduction to ballroom.”Since then, Hutton, a member of the Legendary House of Garçon, has competed in and hosted balls both in New York City and D.C., where he is also a co-founder of the Capitol Ballroom Council.
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