The Queen
1968 Documentary
The Queen captures the playfulness, the humor, the back-biting competition and dead-serious glamour of the Miss-All-American Camp Beauty Pageant! Long before RuPaul discoverd pantyhose, long before Paris is Burning or even La Cage aux Folles, the United States had a thriving drag subculture - an underground network that took shape in gay bars, private clubs and a series of glittery, drag beauty pageants. Back in 1967, two years before the Stonewall Riots kicked off the modern gay liberation in New York, film-maker Frank Simon documented that phenomenon on film and presented it for the first time to mainstream America.
Reviews:
"One of the 10 Best Films of the Year."
Judith Christ
New York Magazine
"Funny and inspired ... extraordinary."
New York Times
"Extremely Funny ... Fascinating ... Remarkable ..."
Motion Picture Daily
"Marvelous."
Glamour Magazine
"Remarkable. Screamingly Funny."
Box Office
"Amazing - Funny."
Hollywood Reporter
"Triumphant."
London Times