The Queen (1968)

	Jim Dine	Himself - Jury Member
	Jack Doroshow	Flawless Sabrina
	Bruce Jay Friedman	Himself - Jury Member
	Bernard Giquel	Interviewer
	Rachel Harlow	Harlow
	Jill Krementz	Herself
	Jerry Leiber	Himself - Jury Member
	Mary Ellen Mark	Herself
	Mario Montez	Himself
	George Plimpton	Himself
	Larry Rivers	Himself
	Edie Sedgwick	Herself
	Terry Southern	Himself
	Andy Warhol	Himself
	Dorian Corey	Himself
	Jackie Curtis	Himself
	Crystal LaBeija	Himself

Director/Choreographer

Frank Simon

Producer

Lewis M. Allen
Si Litvinoff

Cinematography

Robert Elfstrom
Frank Simon
Kenneth Van Sickle
Joseph Zysman

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
No. of Discs/Tapes	1

Personal Details
Purchase Date	6/24/2016
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 TheMovieDb.org IMDB

References
Lists	‡ Rotten Tomatoes: 200 Best LGBT Movies of All Time
IMDb Voters	<500
QueerGuru Rating	8
Rotten Critics Rating % (2021)	96
Rotten Best Queer #1-200 (2021)	46

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".