P.S. Burn This Letter Please

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Director:Jennifer Tiexiera, Michael Seligman
Cast:Michael Alogna, James Bidgood, Claude Diaz
Premiere:8. October 2021
Length:101 minutes
Genre:Documentary

P.S. Burn This Letter Please

P.S. Burn This Letter Please ; Jennifer Tiexiera,Michael Seligman, 2020, versions: OR,SS, languages: eng

Director: Jennifer Tiexiera, Michael Seligman • Camera: Zachary Shields • Scenario: Jennifer Tiexiera, Michael Seligman, Jennifer Tiexiera, Michael Seligman • Cast: Michael Alogna, James Bidgood, Claude Diaz

A box of letters, held in secret for nearly 60 years, ignites a 5-year exploration into a part of LGBT history that has never been told. The letters, written in the 1950s by a group of New York City drag queens, open a window into a forgotten world where being yourself meant breaking the law and where the penalties for “masquerading” as a woman were swift and severe. Using original interviews, never-before-seen archival footage and photographs and stylized recreations, P.S. BURN THIS LETTER PLEASE reconstructs this pre-Stonewall era as Lennie, Robbie, George, Michael, Jim, Henry, Claude, Tish and Terry—former drag queens now in their 80s and 90s—reveal how they survived and somehow flourished at a time when drag queens were both revered and reviled, even within the gay community. The government sought to destroy them, then history tried to erase them, now they get to tell their story for the first time.

Length: 101 min

Year: 2020
Local premiere date: 8. October 2021

Country of origin:

  • United states of America

Language version:

OR - Original version (english)
SS - Slovak subtitles

Director: Jennifer Tiexiera, Michael Seligman • Camera: Zachary Shields • Scenario: Jennifer Tiexiera, Michael Seligman, Jennifer Tiexiera, Michael Seligman • Cast: Michael Alogna, James Bidgood, Claude Diaz

A box of letters, held in secret for nearly 60 years, ignites a 5-year exploration into a part of LGBT history that has never been told. The letters, written in the 1950s by a group of New York City drag queens, open a window into a forgotten world where being yourself meant breaking the law and where the penalties for “masquerading” as a woman were swift and severe. Using original interviews, never-before-seen archival footage and photographs and stylized recreations, P.S. BURN THIS LETTER PLEASE reconstructs this pre-Stonewall era as Lennie, Robbie, George, Michael, Jim, Henry, Claude, Tish and Terry—former drag queens now in their 80s and 90s—reveal how they survived and somehow flourished at a time when drag queens were both revered and reviled, even within the gay community. The government sought to destroy them, then history tried to erase them, now they get to tell their story for the first time.

Year: 2020
Local premiere date: 8. October 2021

Country of origin:

  • United states of America

Language version:

OR - Original version (english)
SS - Slovak subtitles