Object Lessons
“All drag queens want is love,” says Sabrina at the beginning of Frank Simon’s 1968 documentary . Following a group of drag performers and trans women preparing for the 1967 Miss All-America Camp Beauty Pageant at Town was made. The opening shots, reproduced on the film’s poster, portray Sabrina’s ritual of getting cameraready— applying makeup and wigs, and donning glorious dresses. It’s a transformation not only of man to woman, but of anonymous citizen to fierce performer.
