Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carmen Xtravaganza, right, fixes her makeup at a 1988 drag ball in Harlem, New York. (Catherine McGann / Getty Images) Carmen ...

Ballroom icon Carmen Xtravaganza, who had been living with lung cancer, has died at age 62, according to Out magazine. Carmen’s friends at the House of Xtravaganza, a popular house in the New York ...

Carmen Xtravaganza, a ballroom icon and transgender advocate known for her appearance in the 1990 documentary “Paris Is Burning,” has died. She was 62. Her death was announced Friday by House of ...