1990s

The page details all the events that occurred during the 1990s.

## 1990

### Winter

* Pray Tell, accompanied by Blanca Evangelista, visit Keenan Howard's grave at Hart's Island and pay respects.

### Spring

* **March 27, 1990**; Madonna releases the song "Vogue," dominating music charts internationally.
* **May 1, 1990**; Angel Evangelista is interviewed by Ms. Ford.
* During a session at the Hellfire Club, Mistress Elektra allowed Paul to use a gas mask with poppers. After twenty minutes, she finds him choking on his stomach contents, dying from an overdose.
* Two days after disappearing, Blanca Evangelista learns of the death of Candy Ferocity and informs the other House Mother Lulu Ferocity and their Mother Elektra Wintour.

### Summer

* Damon Evangelista is approached by Gemma Oswalt for an audition for Madonna's tour. Ricky Wintour also received an invitation to audition.
* **June 6, 1990**; Damon Evangelista, Ricky Wintour, and Riddle Rene perform on the Solid Gold syndicated music show.
* Pray Tell passes out on stage during a ball while making an announcement about the annual AIDS cabaret. Blanca Evangelista and others quickly rushed him to Roosevelt Hospital to be monitored.
* Damon Evangelista, Lulu Ferocity, and Ricky Wintour orchestrate an elaborate prank on Frederica Norman's house, wrapping the building with a large condom.
* Damon Evangelista graduates from the New School for Dance. The House of Evangelista celebrate at their apartment and gradually descends into a verbal altercation between Damon and Angel Evangelista, Blanca Evangelista, and Pray Tell, in the presence of Elektra Wintour and Lulu Ferocity. He reveals that Angel has snorted cocaine, protested against Blanca's inconsistent parenting and favouritism, and disclosed Ricky Evangelista's HIV-status and his relationship with Pray Tell.
* Damon Evangelista is approached by Tori about a job as a dancer for Malcolm McLaren and touring Europe.
* **August 1990**; Elektra Wintour takes Blanca Evangelista, Angel Evangelista, and Lulu Ferocity to the beach, borrowing the summer home of her client Joe.
* Blanca Evangelista encounters Adrian at the restaurant after being rescued. After a couple of minutes of conversing, they set for a walk alongside the beach, much to Elektra's dismay.

## 1991

### Spring

* Blanca Evangelista is visited by Pray Tell in her home. The two reconnect and rebuild their friendship before she is brought to Roosevelt Hospital for her illness related to HIV.
* **May 12, 1991**; House Ferocity, House Pendavis, and House Wintour challenged at the Mother's Day Ball.
* Lil Papi Evangelista proposes to Angel at the ball with a bouquet of roses; she accepts the proposal.
* Elektra Wintour emcees temporarily, with a panel of femme queen judges for their first installation of a butch queen category in drag.
* Blanca Evangelista and Pray Tell meet and treat two new kids, Quincy and Chilly, to a dinner.

### Before 1994

* The Houses of Ferocity and Wintour disbanded.
* Lemar establishes a new house within the changing ballroom scene, he coins the House of Khan.
	+ Among the members, Cubby is rejected due to a lack of skills, leaving him homeless.
* Cubby contracts HIV and becomes hospitalized.
* Blanca Evangelista, after recovering from her debilitating condition, takes on a position in the Roosevelt Hospital's HIV ward as a nursing assistant. While employed, she meets Dr. Christopher, and the two quickly strike up a passionate romantic and sexual relationship.
* Returning to New York City after the completion of his dance career, Damon Evangelista lives with Blanca Evangelista and her two then-children Quincy and Chilly.
	+ Damon develops an addiction to alcohol but manages to abstain through the aide of his House Mother and other methods to combat the alcoholism.
	+ Quincy moved around between different houses within the evolving ballroom scene. Chilly decides to return home to her birth family.

## 1994

### Winter

* Rudolph William Louis Giulani is elected mayor of New York City.

### Summer

* Hellfire Club was raided by police officials and closed down on the suspicion that the sex dungeon was spreading HIV to its clientele.
* **June 17, 1994**: O.J. Simpson is chased by the police in relation to a murder.
* Elektra Wintour establishes a new sex phoneline under Star 69 with former employees of the Hellfire Club, including Chi Chi.
* After a sweaty, restless night, Pray Tell, accompanied by Blanca Evangelista and Judy Kubrak, visits the doctor to check his health. Dr. Greenburg informs him that he has developed AIDS-related lymphoma, limiting his life span by six months.
* Pray Tell returns to Pittsburgh to visit friends and family to give forgiveness for past transgressions in his life.

### Autumn

* Lil Papi Evangelista is visited by Jimena at his workplace. She tells him of her sister, his former girlfriend, dying and leaving a young son named after him.

## 1996

* Removing make-up from his face, Pray Tell prepares for bed and dies peacefully in his sleep from AIDS-related heart complications. The following morning, Ricky Wintour discovers his lifeless body and calls for an ambulance. Blanca Evangelista learns of the news during her shift and tearfully cries in Ricky's arms.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 2.01 *Acting Up*
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.03 *Butterfly/Cocoon*
3. ↑ 2.04 *Never Knew Love Like This Before*
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 2.05 *What Would Candy Do?*
5. ↑ During the dance performance between Damon, Ricky, and Riddle Rene, the list of songs used for the segment were songs on the Solid Gold Top 10 List for the week of June 6, 1990.
6. ↑ 2.06 *Love's in Need of Love Today*
7. ↑ 2.07 *Blow*
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 2.08 *Revelations*
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 2.09 *Life's a Beach*
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 In a conversation between Elektra Wintour and Chi Chi in *Life's a Beach*, it is revealed that the episode is set in August.
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 2.10 *In My Heels*
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 12.6 12.7 12.8 12.9 3.01 *On The Run*
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 3.03 *The Trunk*
14. ↑ Officer Murphy and Detective Patterson mention the elected Mayor Rudy Giulani in their interview with Elektra Wintour in the episode *The Trunk*.
15. ↑ The group watch a live news coverage of the O.J. Simpson car chase at Evangelista Residence in *On The Run*.
16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 3.04 *Take Me To Church*
17. ↑ 3.05 *Something Borrowed, Something Blue*
18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 3.07 *Series Finale*