A drag queen is a person, often a man, who uses clothing and makeup to imitate and often exaggerate female gender signifiers and gender roles for entertainment purposes. In modern times, drag queens are associated with gay men and gay culture, and pageants where drag queens compete against each other are held. The Ballroom community is a African-American / Latino drag culture that emerged in opposition to racism experienced in established drag queen pageant circuits. In order to participate in a "ballroom", participants will compete in a "ball" arranged by the community across different categories. Ballroom is characterized by participants being split into groups called "drag families", where the leader ("drag mother") teaches the members ("drag daughter") skills necessary to win in drag competitions. Recently, the Ballroom community has become popular due to the popularization on TV, and the community has been very vocal about non-Ballroom individuals partaking in those acts, exclaiming that non-Ballroom individuals doing those acts have committed grave cultural appropriation, etc.