The House of Lepore brings ballroom to the Austin club scene.
What makes a family? For many in the Texas queer community, family isn't made from blood but from bonds made by choice. House of Lepore is one of those Texas families, grown from many different sources of love, encouragement, and support into the massive force it now represents in Central Texas' ballroom community.
Before House of Lepore started, however, Natalie helped start the groundbreaking House of Kenzo in San Antonio as well as the Plastic Collective. In Plastic, she met hip-hop artist and DJ BabiBoi – aka Dorian Delafuente – who founded House of Lepore alongside Natalie in 2020. Beginning as an art collective isn't the typical ballroom story, but Dorian said the transition was seamless.
"I needed a house with a little bit more structure," Marcus said."With people with a little bit more experience. I was able to find that in Lepore." He added that his joining was influenced by Lepore's reputation as"the house where class lives, and I like to think of myself as a classy type of person." In joining the house, Marcus said he accessed a part of himself he hadn't before.
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