A ball in 1967 New York.
“I was searching for ages for footage of queer party scenes from the 60s, and was overjoyed to finally come across this. This is an excerpt from “Queens at Heart,” a documentary restored by UCLA in 2009. The full doc is worth your watch, “a rare look at trans life and ball culture in mid 1960s New York.” Most of the doc is an interview of three trans women. As UCLA aptly describes it, “While the interviewer’s creepy, inappropriate questioning is often hard to stomach, the women successfully transcend his tone and come across with an incredible sense of dignity and candor. They talk about their double-lives: going out as women at night but living as men during the day, and about how they take hormones and dream of ‘going for a change.’ One talks about avoiding the draft, another about her fiance, and another about the torment of childhood as an effeminate youth. Their honesty and vulnerability are truly a gift.” - @interstellar_isabellar
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