One of the most influential LGBT documentaries of all time is The Queen.

Frank Simon and Flawless Sabrina's 1968 film that takes the viewer behind the scenes of a tumultuous drag pageant

held in New York City two years before

the Stonewall riots. The landmark film, which has now been remastered and is available on Netflix,

inspired the likes of Paris's Burning, Wigstock, Pose, and Rupal's Drag Rates. Today, Miss

Gay U.S. of A pageant winner, Aurora Sexton, joins us to look at drag pageants over the decades and what it takes for a gal to make it big in the pageant circuit.

Plus, Rupal brings queer and drag culture to Saturday Night Live and gives Pete Davidson a drag makeover.

Aurora's Let Them Eat Cake,

Diary of a First Lady.

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And speaking of legends, before we begin, let's listen to Crystal LaBesia, read Harlow to Filth, after losing the pageant in the

1968 documentary, The Queen.

She is not beautiful, has no polypacation, and she's body-sacres it.

Do you think she deserved it?

You know she didn't deserve it.

All of them, the judges knew it too.

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