The Queen
Directed by Frank Simon
1968, 68min, 35mm
“A gutsy, funny, pathetic, really very moving documentary”
—Roger Ebert, The Chicago Sun-Times
Grove Press distributed this candid, funny, and compassionate look at 1960s queer and drag culture. Larger-than-life drag queens Harlow, Sabrina, and Miss Crystal compete at the 1967 Miss All-America Camp Beauty Pageant, primping, stabbing each other in the back, and strutting their stuff in hopes of capturing the crown.