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This photo taken on March 27, 2021, shows drag queen contestant performing during the "Drag Queen Lip Sync" competition during a voguing ball in Beijing. - Leather, glitter, stilettos and a strut - voguing, the New York LGBTQ dance craze, has seized Beijing as a "playground for the marginalised" emerges in a capital where room for the unconventional has to be taken. - TO GO WITH AFP STORY CHINA-GENDER-SOCIAL-LGBTQ-CULTURE,FOCUS BY LAURIE CHEN (Photo by NOEL CELIS / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY CHINA-GENDER-SOCIAL-LGBTQ-CULTURE,FOCUS BY LAURIE CHEN (Photo by NOEL CELIS/AFP via Getty Images)

This photo taken on March 27, 2021, shows drag queen contestant performing during the "Drag Queen Lip Sync" competition during a voguing ball in Beijing. - Leather, glitter, stilettos and a strut - voguing, the New York LGBTQ dance craze, has seized Beijing as a "playground for the marginalised" emerges in a capital where room for the unconventional has to be taken.
 - TO GO WITH AFP STORY CHINA-GENDER-SOCIAL-LGBTQ-CULTURE,FOCUS BY LAURIE CHEN (Photo by NOEL CELIS / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY CHINA-GENDER-SOCIAL-LGBTQ-CULTURE,FOCUS BY LAURIE CHEN (Photo by NOEL CELIS/AFP via Getty Images)