The Pride Of Lions by Roger Q. Mason

THE PRIDE OF LIONS is a queer performance work which casts a panoramic eye on the plight of queer and trans people within the US legal system from the 1920s till today.  In this DPTV excerpt, we visit five female impersonators on the night of their Broadway debuts in Mae West’s ill-fated drag play The Pleasure Man.  After the show is shut down by the NYPD for indecency, this quintet of aspiring queens experience a life altering evening in prison at the brutal yet suspiciously homocurious hands of New York’s finest.