i wait a while to post a review of this documentary because when i first saw it over 10 year ago and i want to think carefully about what i want to write . i find from a documentary standpoint that this be a darned good documentary . it do what it set out to do and show me something i have no idea about and keep me interested in this world it explore . i know nothing of the drag world and find out about them and the ball be just spectacular to me . these folk be just so talented with what they do and how they do it and for competition . the catty folk and the complainer ( even i be angry when someone tell the judge that the coat the drag queen be wear wasn not a man coat . ) and the jealous and it all there like in every other competition . like every other competition like it . which i felt be a point . you have the old drag queen talk about how the ball use to be compare to the new drag queen who have change the ball and make more competition category and even those who look on know that the future of ball would change even more when they be ready to walk the runway . it be interest to hear that some of the contestant be live out on the street two minute before the ball but come to compete and it be that important to them . then there be sad story and story of who house and house mother bring out the best and the bright in competition . it be interest . now to add after 10 year of see this film and i live through the so called madonna craze . i spot a few familiar face from this documentary who end up with madonna during her vogue phase and rightfully so . if not for those individual and madonna wouldn not have have a vogue phase and i know that now . credit should be give where credit be due . make me wonder and if anyone else from mainstream america would watch this documentary and they will learn theyre not as mainstream a they think .