Back when Frank Simon had decided to take his 16 mm camera to document the contestants of the 1967 Miss All-America Camp Beauty Pageant in New York, the greater world hadn’t been aware of the presence or culture of drag queens, and homosexuality was still considered a psychological abnormality. The Stonewall Riots, which had kicked …
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Source: OC Weekly