The Queen (1968)

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?

Edition Details
HDR	N/A
No. of Discs/Tapes	1

Personal Details
Purchase Date	06/24/2016
Location	Personal Library
Owner	Deitz
Store	Bonanza - CJs_Cinema_Archives - Charles Marion
Purchase Price	$15.00
Condition	Good
Links	+8 Review: QueerGuru "the 1968 classic Drag film lovingly restored" (Roger Walker-Dack June 28th, 2019) + Review: New York Times The Queen Official Site The Queen at Core for Movies IMDB TheMovieDb.org

References
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QueerGuru Rating	8

This movie is a documentary of a 1967 Drag Queen contest held in New York City at Town Hall two years before Stonewall -- Drag queens were, and still are, important to gay culture -- These contests were among the few "out" gay events of the era -- Drag queens were leaders in the gay liberation movements that developed in the 60s and later.
In 2016-17, The Museum of the City Of New York included a clip from this film in their exhibition "Gay Gotham: Art & Underground Culture in New York".