Sydney Baloue is a multi-talented personality, who is a TV writer, producer, director, dancer, archivist, journalist and an acknowledged authority on the ballroom community. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Vice and them. He served as co-executive producer for seasons 1 and 2 of HBOMax's competition show, LEGENDARY, and has contributed as a staff writer for HBO's THE VANISHING HALF and the CW's TOM SWIFT.

As a member of House of Xtravaganza, Baloue, who has lived in Berlin, Paris, London and New York, is composing a memoir, UNDENIABLE: A HISTORY OF VOGUING, BALLROOM AND HOW IT CHANGED MY LIFE (AND THE WORLD). The manuscript was acquired by Angela Ledgerwood at Sugar23 and Libby Burton at Crown.

Among his honors are the 2022-23 Martin Duberman Award from the New York Public Library and inclusion on Condé Nast’s Now List 2020. Baloue was a 2020 Artist in Residency at The Laundromat Project and a 2020 Sokoloff Arts Fellow. He made history in 2019 as the first transgender man to win a voguing category at New York City's Latex Ball and in 2021 as the first Black transgender man in the Writers Guild of America.