Cross-Tisch: Flawless Sabrina

A public conversation with legendary drag impresario and gender activist Flawless Sabrina, (aka Jack Doroshow) an influential entrepreneur establishing queer public performance in a pre-Stonewall era. As a trailblazer Flawless Sabrina appropriated the art form of the beauty pageant to cross gender boundaries and awarded visibility of the transgressing and beholding of beauty while challenging societal heteronormative standards at a time when cross dressing was not only pathologized but also illegal.  Arrested and detained Flawless refused to be kept in the closet as an oddity or a secret but continued to be a champion, role model and support for queer fluid expression and representation without shame or apology.

The conversation will feature clips and out takes from the 1968 documentary The Queen as well as a few surprises.

A reception follows the event.

Co presented by the Department of Art and Public Policy, Department of Film and Television, and the Department of Drama.

Introduced by Dean Sheril Antonio - Associate Dean, Kanbar Institute of Film and Television and The Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music

Participants:
Flawless Sabrina
Karen Finley - Arts Professor, Department of Art and Public Policy
Darrell Wilson - Department of Film and Television
Joe. E. Jeffreys - Department of Drama
Mary D. Dorman - Attorney

Photography courtesy of Daphne Chan at cargocollective.com

Poster designed by Will Mustin

Location
Tisch School of the Arts
721 Broadway