With a big screen re-release underway, director Jennie Livingston discusses its complicated legacy
The people served by drag have never been more visible, in other words, andis an essential part of that narrative. Politically, however, the promise of visibility has not totally borne out. The movie plays a part in that narrative too.
Livingston noted that there were other people at the balls with cameras—other people documenting this history. Whether they wanted to turn that footage into feature films, rather than home movies, is not clear. If they had, they would have faced the same difficulties getting funding that Livingston did. “In terms of funding, that was really very, very, very hard,” she said. “People were like, ‘No one’s going to want to see this film. No one’s going toto see this film’...
that “if they”—i.e., the black and brown queer people of the ballroom community— “wanted to make a film about themselves, they would not be able.” Meaning that no one would fund their work.
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