All hail 'The Queen' — why this recently restored 1968 documentary on vintage NYC drag culture deserves to be in the pantheon of LGBTQ cinema
: “Because you’re beautiful and you’re young; you deserve to have the best in life,” we hear her voice ring out. And during the “Snatch Game” episode of Season 3 ofdefied expectations by wearing a luscious black wig, oversized hoop earrings and a white feather boa to transform into LaBeija.
“Wouldn’t this be a helluva mess if the draft board were to call us down right now for a physical?” says a chubby contestant with a high-pitched Southern accent that sounds like he could be Truman Capote’s close cousin.is what I’m wearing to the draft board,” the slender friend replies, twirling in a white nightgown with feather lapels.They then turn to talking about gender and whether they’d want to transition through medical means.
“Well, I have enough money to go through the sex change, and I live only 30 miles from John Hopkins, but it’s the last thing that I would want. I know that I’ve been a drag queen, have been a drag queen for a long time, been gay for a long time, but I certainly do not want to be a girl, even if I could have a baby.”
Simon’s movie is short , but it’s extraordinary because it captures so much, doubling as a time capsule of a generation’s innocence and fashion-forward sophistication. You can tell why it functioned as a template for many future gender nonconforming people looking for some sort of pre-internet guide through the confusing maze of sexuality and gender.
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