It's Christmas Eve at the Blue Jay, a Greenwich Village gay bar, a place where patrons believe they can feel free to be themselves as opposed to the straight charade many portray in their ... See full summary »
This film was way ahead of its time. One of the characters referred to J. Edgar Hoover as "....a drag queen." In 1971, Hoover was still Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and viewed as a traditional American hero by the majority of his fellow Americans.
Barrett Hartman:
Forgive me for not getting up. It's a bit awkward.
Lita Joyce:
Don't apologize. I abhor men in a vertical position.
When the hustler (Gary Sandy) rips off the drag queen's (Candy Darling) wig, her hair ribbon somehow stays attached to her real hair underneath.
English, Italian, Spanish
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