Tamar
PortraitTamar Carter, co-founder of FUNCTION and Legendary Canadian Mother of the Iconic House of Miyake-Mugler, has been a pivotal figure in the Ballroom community for over a decade. Through her work in HIV awareness and education, and her leadership in launching the Ballroom Empowerment Program—the first of its kind in the country—Tamar continues to centre community, education, and access in everything she does.
A mother, daughter, and sister, Tamar is dedicated to reshaping the Canadian Ballroom landscape and creating spaces rooted in visibility, empowerment, belonging, and care.
For Tamar, fourteen years in Ballroom have revealed the culture’s transformative power. She’s built chosen family, fought HIV stigma with urgency and compassion, championed peer-led safer-sex conversations, and helped position Canada within the global Ballroom landscape—all guided by a single intention: to leave the world better, safer, and more loving.
FUNCTION allows us to amplify the desires of our hearts for our beloved community—spotlighting Ballroom excellence, uplifting our creative brilliance, and deepening our shared capacity for love, empathy, and knowledge.
This project is one small step in the responsibility we carry together—to build a world where queer and trans people can live, create, and thrive with dignity, joy, and respect.
There is nowhere else we would rather stand, and no mission we believe in more deeply.