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Willi Ninja

April 12, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Willi Ninja was born on April 12, 1961 (to September 2, 2006). He was a dancer, performance artist, and choreographer who was featured in the ball community documentary film, “Paris is Burning.” William Roscoe Leake grew up in Flushing, in the New York City borough of Queens, where he began dancing at the age of seven. He had an undistinguished school career, but his talent soon led him to Manhattan. Arriving in Greenwich Village in the late 1970s, Willi Ninja […]

Categories: All, April, April 12, Ninja, Willi • Tags: 1961, 2006, April 12, September 2, Ubuntu Biography Project, Willi Ninja

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Ali Forney

April 12, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Ali Forney was born on April 12, 1975 (to December 5, 1997). Sometimes known as Luscious, Forney was a homeless gender nonconforming peer counselor and LGBTQ youth advocate for whom the Ali Forney Center was named when it opened in 2002. Ali He’shun Forney was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, and raised by a single mother in Brooklyn, New York. By the time he became a teenager, Forney was a prostitute, and later ran away from a group home. Preferring […]

Categories: All, April, April 12, Forney, Ali • Tags: 1975, 1997, Ali Forney, April 12, December 5, Ubuntu Biography Project

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