There have been a few events in Adam's honor throughout the city including last week's event at Gravity & tonight's event thrown by Joanne Jiminez & ALMA at SinSin in lower Manhattan. Lookout for a special official event at Cielo in November. Goodbye, dear Adam. May you rest in peace.

AP: "Inspired by Fred Astaire, "Great Performances" on PBS, Asian culture and Olympic gymnasts, Ninja was a self-taught performer who stitched together a patchwork of a career that extended into the worlds of dance, fashion and music. The critically acclaimed 1990 documentary, directed by Jennie Livingston, shed light on the subculture in which the cross-dressing participants, many of them black and Latino, displayed their costumes and styles at Manhattan balls. On a deeper level, the balls became a colorful demonstration of serious issues of gender, class and race. Ninja -- born William Leake in 1961 -- said the drag- queen balls began in the 1960s, and over the years new varieties of performance, including voguing, evolved as more gays participated. "I didn't find out about it until 1980. . . . I didn't know what this was about. I began learning from the experts, and I developed my own style," he told Associated Press in 1991. His career boosted by the attention from "Paris Is Burning," he performed with dance companies, worked under noted choreographers and instructed models and socialites how to walk and pose with frisson. "Whenever you talk about vogue or voguing, Willi's name is there," Livingston said Tuesday. 'Willi refined voguing. He really brought it to an amazing level.'"