A sensitive and often moving documentary about real people, The Queen introduced a public unfamiliar with the lives of female impersonators to the men who compete each year for the Miss All-American beauty contest. Fair-skinned and heavy-bearded, homely masculine-looking and beautiful feminine-looking, the men prepare in their hotel rooms as they discuss their homosexuality with disarming humor. On the night of the pageant, in New York’s Town Hall, the judges (Andy Warhol, Terry Southern, Edie Sedgwick, Larry Rivers, and others) evaluate the bathing-suit competition and announce Miss All-American of 1967. Carefully edited and well photographed, The Queen made a serious contribution to an explosive subject.