Voguing and the House Ballroom Scene of New York 1989-92Voguing came out of the extraordinary house ballroom scene that emerged in Harlem, New York in the 1980s in which African American and Latino gay and transgender communities competed against one another for their dancing skills, the verisimilitude of their drag and their ability to walk down the runway like a model. Voguing erupted into the mainstream in 1990 when Madonna's song Vogue became number one in over 30 countries.