Jack is 24, sometimes he's a drag queen named Sabrina. In 1967, as Sabrina, he's the mistress of ceremonies at a national drag queen contest in New York City. The camera goes behind the scenes, recording the rehearsals leading up to the contest, the conversations in the dressing room (about draft boards, sexual identity and sex-change operations, and being a drag queen), and the jealousies that emerge before and after the competition. Jack introduces us to Richard, a young man who becomes Jack's protégé. As Miss Harlow, Richard enters the contest. One of his principal competitors is Miss Crystal, who's from Manhattan. Who will win the crown?
"This wonderful sllce of LGBTQ from 1968 perfectly captures the world on NY Drag when the height of their existence was simply winning a Beauty Pageant. Thankfully this debut documentary by filmmaker FRANK SIMON has been lovingly restored this year as part of the Stonewall 50 Celebrations.
"There is a wonderful sense of camaraderie amongst them all as they share stories about how they came out to the world. They know each other by their drag names, and when asked what their names were before, they all have the same answer, that there was no before. Most of them avoided the Draft for military service because of their sexuality, with one of them hilariously recounting he didn’t have to tell the Recruiting Officers he was gay, as they told him." [QueerGuru"