Queens of Heart: Community Therapists in Drag

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Queens of Heart: Community Therapists in Drag (2006)

Añade un argumento en tu idiomaThis look at the psychology of drag examines the skills needed for men to transform themselves into women and the interaction between performers and audience. Filmed on location in Portland,... Leer todoThis look at the psychology of drag examines the skills needed for men to transform themselves into women and the interaction between performers and audience. Filmed on location in Portland, Oregon at a legendary nightclub.This look at the psychology of drag examines the skills needed for men to transform themselves into women and the interaction between performers and audience. Filmed on location in Portland, Oregon at a legendary nightclub.

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Heather Mosher received credit as both Director of Photography, at the beginning of the film, and Cinematographer, at the end of the film. Caleb Heymann received credit only as Cinematographer, at the end of the film.

Créditos adicionales
Department of Just Us - Federal Bureau of Indecency Warning This documentary contains language that may be offensive to some viewers. It includes a lot of dirty talk. But as Sigmund Freud once commented, "Dirt is simply matter in the wrong place." This documentary also contains clinical terms that may be offensive to some viewers. Any relationship between diagnostic terms and actual audience members or groups depicted is mostly incidental. For a real diagnosis, consult your personal physician.

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References The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

Banda sonora
Send in the Clowns
Performed by Sophie Smith and Walter Cole
Written by Stephen Sondheim
Used by Permission of WB Music Corp.

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10/10

A wonderful and necessary documentary film.

This is a fantastic film--it examines drag from a fresh and complex perspective. Queens works against the mainstream representational tendency to romanticize and exoticize drag and its performers, revealing the everyday business of drag as in one sense a simple means of subsistence. Yet the film then expertly delves into the gendered psychological dynamics of "drag" as it is experienced by both the performers themselves, and just as importantly the film argues, by the spectating audience. Queens explores the curiosities and attendant anxieties surrounding maleness and femaleness that draw people into the club--from the Christian bride-to-be to the macho 'man's man' to those coping with living openly as transgender, the club appears to both serve as an alluring challenge to normative life and as a therapeutic respite for a large, vibrant, and often struggling community. All of this and more is accomplished through an unflinching look at the life of Darcelle, a 76-year old drag queen who runs the oldest drag club in the nation--an amazing person, and a great point of entry into the psychological work of drag performance. A wonderful and necessary documentary film.