The House has for a long time stopped competing (walkingSusman, Tara (Columbia University), "The Vogue of Life: Fashion Culture, Identity, and the Dance of Survival in the Gay BalIs", disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory, p. 118 (PDF p.3 ) [in] UKnowledge ) in the ball scene, and as such, "is not exactly like the voguing houses of Jennie Livingston's film Paris Is Burning, since it does not compete. The House of Aviance is something of a queer kinship network in which members serve as extended, pretended, and—some would argue—improved family that supports and enables its members."Muñoz, José Esteban, "Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity", NYU Press (2009), p. 75,
