house mother
The experienced leader who heads a ballroom house and mentors its children.
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The matriarch of a ballroom house. Usually an older, respected member, a drag queen, gay man or trans woman, who leads the house, trains its children to walk categories, and provides the support, guidance and sometimes literal housing that the kids' birth families wouldn't. Think Angie Xtravaganza. A chosen-family mum in every sense that counts. The term has spread well beyond ballroom into wider drag and queer culture.
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