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To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (Beeban Kidron: 1995)

This montage documenting the transformation from male to female - the make-up process - opens the film.

[T]he drag queen, at least at her most emblematic, represents a highly particular conception of performative male femininity: she is not the analog of a “real” woman, but the distillation of a surrealistically exaggerated, outrageously flamboyant femininity that most “real” women neither embody nor aspire to. (205)

Rosenfeld, Kathryn. ‘Drag King Magic: Performing/Becoming the Other’. The Drag King Anthology. Troka, Donna Jean, Kathleen Lebesco and Jean Bobby Noble. London: Harington Park Press, 2002. 201-219.

Still one of my all-time favorite movies, of which I have lots. I remember watching this movie with my mom on Pay-Per-View when it came out in 1995. Hard to believe that it’s been 17 years since this movie came out.

It is such an empowering movie for transgender men and women, highlighting a part of society that is rarely focused on. With the exception of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, this is the most recent movie of its fashion, before the dawn of RuPaul’s Drag Race.

It takes guts and bravado for three macho straight actors to take on roles that are so polar opposite their normal characters in films, and Patrick Swayze (Vita Boheme), Wesley Snipes (Noxzema) and John Leguizamo (Chi-Chi Rodriguez) did amazing jobs in this film.

Also, a little-noticed fact about the movie: controversial topics such as homosexuality, transgenderism, drag queens, and even anti-gay bigotry are addressed and hit head-on in this movie, years before some advances in LGBT America occurred. This film was a groundbreaker.

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