In a sweltering hotel ballroom, party leaders and officeholders cattily handicapped the evening's performances by the potential gubernatorial rivals.
The reality TV star was forced to flee a huge ballroom party in Vienna, Austria after a racist reveller reportedly blacked himself up to impersonate her fiancé Kanye West.
'In the beginning we are nude, in the end we need nothing, fashion is what happens to you in between,' was the message handed out as guests at the Roseland ballroom partied to disco music with a scarlet-clad (formerly known as) Prince.
Listen to the track above, and check out scenes from QweenBeat's legendary ballroom party Vogue Knights in our documentary "Icy Lake".
"They'd been told, for example, that they should keep their ballroom for parties," she continued, "but they are a working couple.
He started hosting burlesque shows at venues over the world including the London's Arts Theatre and the Bloomsbury Ballroom, opening parties for the Venice Film Festival and making guest appearances on John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus and HBO's Bored to Death.
Amenities include a ballroom for parties up to 500, a dozen bedrooms and a swimming pool and spa complex.
Interior spaces include a ballroom for parties of 500, a two-story wood paneled library, a movie theater, a music room, a dozen bedrooms and 15 bathrooms.
With a flood of gay ceremonies expected in the next few weeks, the message to the retail business has been loud and clear: Gays and lesbians have won the right to spend thousands of dollars on bridal gowns, honeymoons, hotel ballrooms, catered parties, multitiered cakes and ice sculptures.
Ghosts from decades earlier wander the rooms and meet in the ballroom for lavish parties, complete with an orchestra led by a rather slimy looking Mr. King.
