It’s a wreck.” In response to this, the dominant lead, Vida, says to her friends, “Well pumpkins, it looks like it comes down to that age-old decision: style or substance.” The film shifts to a shot of the three “drag queens” looking at a mirror’s reflection of themselves in the car while they strike a pose that signifies pondering, and the audience understands that for these three, it will always be about “style.” The style thatTo Wong Foo‘s drag queens reflects, a style devoid of connections to power and place, indicates that this very split is a substantive problem. As the three main characters of the film To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar pull out of the used car lot in the Cadillac convertible they intend to buy, the dealer implores them to reconsider, “Wait. To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
There’s a scene where they show drag queens going through a town, and the narrator is warning viewers that these people will take over your town, and I thought, ‘Well, that would be fun.’ Lamar Wilson.My inspiration for the script came from watching the religious right videotape The Gay Agenda. Whitley, Scott Wiggerman, Cristan Williams, and L. Peterson, Kenneth Pobo, Brad Richard, Hannah Riddle, Laurence Ross, Liana Roux, Kevin Sessums, Del Shores, Erin Elizabeth Smith, Will Stockton, Dan Stone, Christine Stroud, Billie Tadros, TC Tolbert, Dan Vera, Annie Virginia, Valerie Wetlaufer, C.T. Mills, Cameron Mitchell, Foster Noone, Joseph Osmundson, Eddie Outlaw, Seth Pennington, Evan J. Mack, Ed Madden, Jeff Mann, Randall Mann, Mary Meriam, Stephen S. Gilson, Ellen Goldstein, Mirian Bird Greenberg, Elizabeth Gross, Johnathan Harper, Scott Hightower, Matthew Hittinger, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Rex Leonowicz, Sassafras Lowrey, Tyler Lynn, Bo McGuire, Rangi McNeil, Kelly McQuain, M. Daniels, Nick Dephtereos, David Eye, Jason K. Contributors are Dorothy Allison, Shane Allison, John Andrews, Derrick Austin, Jeffery Berg, Richard Blanco, Perry Brass, Dustin Brookshire, Jericho Brown, Joey Connelly, William Cordeiro, C. From hilarious to heartbreaking, anxious to angry, religious to reluctant, contemplative to celebratory, this anthology expands our ideas of what it means to be queer and what it means to represent the land south of the Mason-Dixon. In THE QUEER SOUTH, Douglas Ray has assembled over 60 queer-identified voices exploring their experiences of the American South in nonfiction and poetry.
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