In case you did not read the comments to
Sunday's blog posting, the image accompanying that post came from the womanless beauty pageant held in New York City in 1967, which was documented in the 1968 film
The Queen.
Snippets of the film are on YouTube and a VHS of the 68-minute documentary is available from various sources including Amazon.
I purchased the VHS when it was released back in 1996 and it probably cost around $20.
The Queen VHS is now out of print, not available on DVD, and as a result, I guess it is kind of rare because it now sells for $98.35 new and $44.99 used on Amazon.
Bright Lights Film Journal has a thorough review of
The Queen here.
Is it worth it?
It is historically significant on a cultural and personal level, but I don't think I would not pay $45 for it.
When
The Queen was released, I saw an ad for it in
The Village Voice similar to the image accompanying this post. As a budding femulator, the film was definitely of interest to me. I considered taking the train to New York City just to see it because I knew that it would never be shown in my hometown or thereabouts.
But I feared that if I went to NYC to see it, what would people think. Not that I would tell anybody what I was up to, but I even worried what strangers would think if they saw me entering or exiting the theater where it was playing.
So, I waited almost 30 years to see the film and it was not worth the wait. As I remember, I was not impressed with its quality and content and I never watched it again, but now that I have been writing about it, I may watch it again just to see what I think of it now.
A similar film that I prefer is
Dream Boys Revue, a 1985 documentary about 30 female impersonators participating in a beauty pageant competition.The quality and content is much better than
The Queen and it is available from Amazon on VHS new and used for $14.95, so it is certainly more affordable.
A personal note regarding
Dream Boys Revue:
Early in the film, they introduce each contestant by name and hometown. All the contestants were from big cities with populations of a half-million or more (more or less), except for one contestant, who came from a small city with a population of just over 100,000. Would you believe she came from my hometown?
It's a small world (after all).
In case you did not read the comments to Sunday's blog posting, the image accompanying that post came from the womanless beauty pageant held in New York City in 1967, which was documented in the 1968 film The Queen.
I need some new stuff!
During our chat at my support group's banquet last month, my friend Jamie Dailey suggested that I join Facebook.
I am jazzed* about spending four days en femme in New York City!
Thank-you Lauralee for e-mailing me a link to this story about Blake Lively. 
I will attend a four-day workshop in New York City during a weekend in June. The workshop begins mid-morning and ends early in the afternoon, so I am free to experience The City the rest of the day.
Overnight, the hit counter for this blog passed 300,000.
In the past, I have worn fake eyelashes, usually for dress-up affairs like banquets and weddings, or when I model in fashion shows. Even though my natural eyelashes are long and lush, the fakes make an obvious difference and I would wear them more often if I was more adept at putting them on.
I highly recommend reading Donna's recent blog posting titled The Cost of Doing Business.
While driving to work this morning, I'm listening to tunes on my iPod in "shuffle" mode, which means the iPod randomly picks songs to play from 8,786 songs I have stored on it. So, I never know what it will play next and sometimes it is something "new" to my ears, for example, an obscure song that was uploaded along with other songs on a CD or an old LP that I digitized.
