Paris is Burning

Paris Yanıyor

Director: Jennie Livingston

175',

The documentary explores the competitions popular among drag performers and crossdressers within the Afro-American and Latinx LGBTQ+ communities in late 1980s New York, portraying the reconstruction of gender and the transformation of identities through performance.

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