When dressing in drag could get you arrested in New York

In 1962, trans folks and drag queens were arrested at a drag and trans ball in New York City under laws criminalising gender nonconformity.

The event, now largely forgotten, reflected growing tensions between LGBTQ communities and police – tensions that would erupt later that decade at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village.

Credits:

Producers: Cagney Roberts & Meeckel Beecher

Director: Frederick Bernas