Published by NJ.com Relaxed on a bed before a window overlooking her overgrown Jersey City backyard, Venus Pellagatti Xtravaganza shared stories of the community she had found in New York City’s underground ballroom scene and dreams of a glamorous future. It was through those moments captured in the 1990 documentary “Paris is Burning” that the … Continue reading Venus was here. Jersey City pays tribute to trans icon by marking childhood home as historic landmark