P.S. Burn This Letter Please (2020)
- Directed by
- Michael Seligman, Jennifer Tiexiera
- Genre
- documentary
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Rating
- 6.5 of 10 from 6 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This documentary uses letters and footage from the 1950s to show the secret lives of drag queens in New York City. It centers on a stolen wig heist and the friendships that held a hidden community together.
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What happens
P.S. Burn This Letter Please is a 2020 documentary film about gay life in New York City among 1950s drag queens. The title is taken verbatim from a letter recounting the autumn 1958 theft of 33 luxurious wigs from the Metropolitan Opera House. The film is based on a trove of correspondence found in a storage unit in 2014, and includes archival footage of cross-dressing balls. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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