29K views · 510 reactions | Jennie Livingston's seminal documentary captures the ballroom scene of 1980s New York in all its vivacious joy and heartbreaking precarity. PARIS IS BURNING is now streaming as part of our collection “Trans Awareness Week: Four Essentials of Trans Cinema”. | MUBI UK & Ireland | Facebook

251K views · 45 reactions | Paris Is Burning (1990) is a...

Decades before RUPAUL'S DRAG RACE and PARIS IS BURNING ('90), Frank Simon's groundbreaking documentary THE QUEEN ('68) gave many audiences their first look at drag culture. Set against the backdrop of 1967's Miss All-America Camp Beauty Contest, the film was one of the first documentaries to focus on a subculture by depicting a competition – setting the stage for later works in the cinema verité style. At a time when cross-dressing outside of a performance venue was still illegal in New York, th