The Queens follows contestants Tiffany T. Hunter, Alexis Gabrielle Sherrington, Sunny Dee-Lite, and Naysha Lopez as they pursue their dreams of becoming the next Miss Continental, a prestigious international female impersonation pageant in which many trans women also found community.
In fact, Miss Continental was founded in 1980 by Jim Flint as a trans-inclusive alternative to pageants like Miss Gay America, which excluded these contestants from competition.In addition to glamour, the resilience of the contestants is on full display.
In this exclusive nine-minute clip debuting below on The Advocate, Karen Covergirl of New York City discusses her battle with liver cancer — and how she pressed on with the competition in the face of it.“I have.