She Was Taken From Us Way Too Soon
Remembering Our Rich Cinematic Drag History
Lifted from a posting on Tumblr…
Not like that film was a one-off either.
I would like to add The Birdcage (1996) to this list of drag queen movies (mind you, it's based on La Cage Aux Folles, a French stage play from 1973 that was later made into a 1978 film*).
Which starred Nathan Lane as a drag queen just two years after he had voice Pumba in The Lion King:
And we ESPECIALLY need to remember Victor Victoria from 1982 (during the REAGAN administration), an absolutely joyful film is SET IN THE 1930S and stars everyone's favorite curtain-sewing nanny as a struggling soprano who decides to pretend to be a boy doing drag (DOUBLE THE DRAG FOR YOUR MONEY). I mean look at this photo:
* I love the Birdcage, but to this day I think the original La Cage still outshines it for the sheer comedic timing of the leads.
Never mind that the Olympics display was not The Last Supper…actual drag queens have parodied the fucking holy relic several times and not ONCE did it turn into a pearl-clutching, panty-twisting international incident!
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Jon Stewart Is A National Treasure
In an interview about gun control with Oklahoma State Senator Nathan Dahm, Jon Stewart argues Dahm's support of anti-drag show laws directly conflicts with the logic he uses for loosening gun restrictions.
Jon Stewart to conservative state senator: 'you don't give a flying f**k' | CNN Business