Born Jack Doroshow in South Philadelphia,[2][4] in a family of mixed Jewish and Italian heritage,[5] Sabrina was a pioneer in the transgender and gay communities in the 1960s in New York.

[3] The documentary The Queen captures the 1967 Miss All-America Camp Beauty Contest in New York City; Sabrina served as emcee to the competition.

The success of The Queen resulted in Sabrina accepting numerous invitations to speak on talk shows and make television appearances in drag.

[9] Sabrina played a drug-induced vision of a thin, ghostly, violin player in Dorian, a 2009 four-channel video installation by Michelle Handelman.

[14] The archive was created as a thank-you to Sabrina for being inspirational to queer youth, as well as a way of raising money to protect her when she was almost evicted from her New York City apartment.

[1] In 2021, PBS television series American Masters published a 6-minute documentary short, Flawless Sabrina: Queer Icon and Star of "The Queen', narrated by Peppermint.