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35mm print courtesy of Elizabeth Purchell

Decades before Paris is Burning, there was… The Queen. Frank Simon’s legendary documentary follows planning, production, and immediate fallout from drag impresario Flawless Sabrina’s 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant at New York’s Town Hall. Featuring candid conversations about the reality of pre-Stonewall queer life and cameos from then-and-future icons like Mario Montez and International Chrysis, The Queen is an essential early work of queer cinema that set the groundwork for everything from documentaries like TV Transvestite (1982) and Paris is Burning (1990) to RuPaul’s drag empire.

Preceded by:
MONSIEUR LE BUTCH (Jude Dry, 2020)
Jude wants top surgery, Mom wants an “old lady pass” on the whole pronouns thing. 12 min.

With bonus extended pre-show material!