Film Screening and Public Conversation at the LGBT Center
Friday, February 11, 2011
7:00 PM
Friday, February 11, 2011
7:00 PM
208 West 13th Street
The Queen: Then and Now unreels a full range of film and people surrounding the landmark 1968 documentary The Queen for an evening of screenings, memories, reflections and dish.
Long before RuPaul’s Drag Race or Paris is Burning this remarkable pre-Stonewall documentary captured a raucous drag pageant at New York City’s Town Hall in 1967.
Rarely seen The Queen will be screened along with the related shorts Zackary Drucker’s At least you know: you exist and Joe E. Jeffreys’ The Queen: After Party Outtakes.
The screenings will be followed by a public conversation examining the 50 year evolution of gender queer politics and the films’ backstories. Participants will include The Queen’s star Flawless Sabrina (aka Jack Doroshow) and Zackary Drucker moderated by Joe E. Jeffreys.
The Queen (1968, 68 minutes, directed by Frank Simon) was one of the first documentaries to present a mainstream audience with a non-pathologized view of drag and homosexuality. It was originally rated X. Director Frank Simon’s impressionistic verite film was widely praised by the press, set box office records and screened internationally. The New York Times praised the film as “funny—and inspired—extraordinary” and the East Village Other dubbed The Queen “a stone gas!”
The Queen: Then and Now is presented as part of the Living Live exhibit at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center. Curated by David Louis Fierman and RJ Supa, Living Live is an exploration of the distance between representation and actual experience. The exhibit runs Thursday, January 27, 2011 through Monday, February 28, 2011.
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