My Ballroom Life is a program of the Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC). The Ballroom CARES! program is a partnership between the House and Ball community (HBC) and community organizations, in an effort to provide the foundation for community mobilization and improve the health and well being of everyone in the House and Ball community.  GMHC’s Ballroom CARES! program provides leadership trainings, empowerment workshops, and community events and activities, to support community networking, community mobilization, and to promote a healthy community. 
For more information about Ballroom CARES, please contact Luna "Legacy" Ortiz at 212-367-1017 or at lunao@gmhc.org 

In The Life Media produces change through innovative media that exposes social injustice by chronicling lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender life and providing there audiences with effective ways to advance equality within and beyond our communities.  Watch one of their videos below discussing the ball culture in New Jersey.  The 1990 documentary "Paris is Burning" revealed the vibrant and decadent ball culture of New York City. Today, in Newark, New Jersey, the ball scene is thriving but with an emphasis on alterative families, safe-sex education, and positive role-modeling providing direction and hope for LGBT minority youth.